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The Lisbon Statement of October 2013 on accountability & justice for Iraq

The following is a statement from an international meeting about the consequences of the long U.S. imperialist occupation of Iraq.…

October 27, 2013

Protests hit Dominican Republic’s expulsion of Haitians

New York -- Imagine waking up to the news that the only country you have ever known has officially rejected…

October 24, 2013

Romanians protest Chevron fracking

“We will not let them drill here if we must die for this,” said Gheorghe Hrum, a Romanian retired forest…

October 24, 2013

Haitians say: ‘Martelly must go, we want food, jobs’

Commemorating the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, thousands of Haitians marched in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and in Cap-Haitien on…

October 24, 2013

News from Latin America

Brazil Popular protests confront Brazil’s government for the second time this year. On Oct. 17, members of La Via Campesina…

October 24, 2013

U.S. in Colombia: Gen. Petraeus distorts reality

Students in New York City are so right-on to protest David Petraeus’ appointment as a highly paid professor at the…

October 23, 2013

U.S., France step up intervention in Africa

U.S. military operations on Oct. 5 in Libya and Somalia were neither isolated events nor solely prompted by the siege…

October 23, 2013

French high school students protest racist deportation

Léonarda Dibrani was on a class trip Oct.9 in Doubs, a small community near the French-Swiss border, when French cops…

October 22, 2013

Demanda contra la ONU por cólera en Haití

A pesar de que su responsabilidad en la introducción y propagación del cólera en Haití ha sido establecida de manera…

October 22, 2013

First Nation protesters tell Southwestern Energy to “Frack off!”

Acting on behalf of a U.S. energy company, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police staged a surprise, early morning attack on…

October 21, 2013