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Mexico’s drug wars: Made in USA

The disappearance and presumed murder of the 43 Mexican students of Ayotzinapa exposed to the world the relation between drug…

December 28, 2014

Statement of President Raúl Castro

The Cuban government released the following statement by President Raúl Castro on Dec. 17. Since my election as President of…

December 22, 2014

General strikes rock Europe

“Sciopero generale” in Italy. “Algemene staking” and “grève générale” in Belgium. In any language the words “general strike” elicit fear…

December 21, 2014

Indigenous peoples, climate activists march in Lima

Some 15,000 people demonstrated in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 11 during the United Nations Climate Change Conference, called “COP 20.”…

December 21, 2014

Victory! Cuban 5 are reunited and free at last

Dec. 17 — The government of the United States has done what it repeatedly swore it would never do: It…

December 18, 2014

CUBAN 5 FREED!

Dec. 17 – The Obama administration announced today that the remaining incarcerated Cuban Five – Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and…

December 17, 2014

Washington inflames ‘new Cold War’ with Russia

On Dec. 4, tens of thousands of people in New York and across the U.S. took to the streets to…

December 16, 2014

Xmas 1914: When rank and file imposed truce during imperialist war

The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise…

December 16, 2014

Class struggle sharpens in Mexico, Puerto Rico

Two months after the disappearance of the 43 normalistas (education students) in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto finally visited…

December 16, 2014

CIA ‘exposed’ but protected; Bush and company off the hook

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture reveals in detail the unrestrained brutality its operatives have carried out at…

December 13, 2014