The declaration of a state of emergency by Guillermo Lasso is more likely about quelling opposition than guaranteeing security for Ecuadorians by Vijay Prashad, Taroa Zuniga Silva Ecuadorians participated in a national strike on October 26 against […]
BY BRIAN CLOUGHLEY Photograph Source: AK Rockefeller – CC BY 2.0 On October 29 a Guantanamo Bay prisoner was reported as having testified about the torture inflicted on him over many years in CIA “black sites” and the US […]
BY CHARLES PIERSON Photograph Source: Felton Davis – CC BY 2.0 The National Interest, the neoconservative foreign policy journal, has published a vicious smear job on four groups working to end Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen (William […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Dan Phiffer – CC BY 2.0 On July 28, French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Tahiti and said that France owed a “debt” to French Polynesia. The debt was related to approximately 200 nuclear […]
BY SUBHANKAR BANERJEE Charlie Swaney scanning for animals from his hunting camp, East Fork of the Chandalar River, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. (Photo: Subhankar Banerjee, August 2002). On November 1, United Nations Secretary General António […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture – CC BY 2.0 For those horrified by U.S. belligerence toward independent nations, particularly economically independent ones, like China with its hybrid socialism/state capitalism, it doesn’t help to […]
Words Without Action: The West’s Role in Israel’s Illegal Settlement Expansion BY RAMZY BAROUD The international uproar in response to Israel’s approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD “Could China’s economy collapse?” was the title of an October 15 article published by QUARTZ magazine. The article makes an ominous case of a Chinese economic crash and its impact on China’s and global economies. […]
BY WIM LAVEN About 2,700 years ago a storytelling slave named Aesop told tales of political, religious, and social themes. They have been popularized for their ethical dimensions and utilized as children’s’ stories for the morals […]
Texas: home of the latest fight for the right to boycott Israel IFAMERICANSKNEW The Lone Star State is one of over 30 states that demand allegiance to Israel (but not to the United States). One […]