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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

French workers protest attacks on pensions

Some 370,000 protesters came out in 200 demonstrations throughout France on Sept. 10., showing a groundswell of opposition to the…

September 23, 2013

‘Colombia’s Agrarian Summit will be magnificent!’ says Piedad Córdoba

Sept. 20 - The Peasant Summit that was held Sept. 12 in Bogotá, Colombia, meant on the one hand the…

September 23, 2013

Turkey protests death of student activist

Ahmed Atakan was a young Turkish student who was killed by the cops on Sept. 10 while protesting the Turkish…

September 20, 2013

U.S. backs brutal Egyptian military regime

Armed to the teeth by the U.S., the Egyptian military regime under General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is brutally attacking not…

September 19, 2013

U.S. solidarity & fact-finding delegation visits Syria

A delegation of anti-war and human-rights activists from the United States entered Syria Sept. 16 on a fact-finding and people-to-people…

September 18, 2013