BY: Miguel Altieri, The Conversation President Obama’s trip to Cuba last week accelerated the warming of U.S.-Cuban relations. Many people in both countries believe that normalizing relations will spur investment that can help Cuba develop its […]
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs HAVANA — Making good on his deal with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Florida), President Donald Trump announced Friday that he […]
BY: Catherine Murphy, Truthout The corporate media have long been looking for ways to discredit Bernie Sanders, and they settled on a surprising statement he made in the 1980s during his tenure as mayor of Burlington […]
BY: Reese Erlich, Truthout Trinidad, Cuba — Sitting at an outdoor café, Alian Rojas deftly thumbs the small keyboard on his iPhone as he calls up The New York Times website. Then he shows a reporter how easily […]
BY: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Peace and human rights advocates joined the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday in their annual condemnation of the United States’ disastrous economic embargo against Cuba. For the 29th straight year, the […]
BYAisha Maniar, Truthout United Nations human rights special rapporteurs expressed serious concerns on July 2 about the “the imminent forced repatriation of former Guantánamo detainee Ravil Mingazov from the United Arab Emirates [UAE] to Russia, saying he faced […]
BY: Julia Conley, Common Dreams Progressives in the U.S. and around the world on Monday demanded the Biden administration lift the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and hundreds of sanctions on the country after thousands of […]
Listen to an audio version of the statement here Photo: President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the site of a protest in San Antonio de los Baños. Credit — Cubadebate.cu The Party for Socialism and Liberation stands in […]
Jonathan Cook writes: No one should be surprised that Britain’s rightwing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel’s pummelling of Gaza, with nearly 200 Palestinians reported to have been killed by airstrikes and […]
By Dan Lieberman* Followers of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd, are chauvinists. No country on the planet houses more chauvinists than Israel, where a large majority of the populace […]