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Vietnam’s revolutionary hero Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102

By Paddy Colligan and G. Dunkel Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, a hero and leader of the Vietnamese people’s struggles against Japanese, French…

October 4, 2013

German elections: Merkel’s victory hides uneasy future

Angela Merkel’s third election as chancellor of Germany with the victory of her center-right CDU-CSU party opens a window on…

October 4, 2013

Bangladesh workers strike back

$38 a month! That’s the monthly minimum wage for more than 4 million garment workers in Bangladesh, most of whom…

October 3, 2013

Venezuela’s former ambassador to Angola speaks in Houston

Jesús García, Venezuela’s former ambassador to Angola and a researcher and writer, spoke to a packed house at S.H.A.P.E. Community…

September 27, 2013

Greece austerity, fascist violence bring fightback

Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is making positive predictions: Unemployment has gone from 27.8 percent to 27.1 percent, though for…

September 27, 2013

U.S. anti-war delegation witnesses Syria’s resistance to imperialism

By John Parker and Sara Flounders Damascus, Syria Sept. 20 — With the U.S. government keeping both massive bombing and…

September 25, 2013

LATIN AMERICA BRIEFS

Ecuador Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa launched “The Dirty Hands of Chevron” campaign on Sept. 17 to expose at an international…

September 25, 2013

Attack on Kenya’s mall related to U.S.-backed invasion of Somalia

Sept. 23 — Billows of smoke emanated from the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on the third day of a…

September 24, 2013

Haitian people protest U.S.-backed Martelly government

Haiti and the huge problems facing its people have dropped out of the news recently. The Washington Post and the…

September 24, 2013

Amazon workers strike in Germany

Workers at Amazon’s biggest warehouses in Germany, in the cities of Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig, went out on strike on…

September 24, 2013