By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Mural Arts Program today rededicated a mural of Paul Robeson on his 115th birthday, while students from Robeson High School in West Philadelphia celebrated a victory inspired by the civil rights leader. At… Read More ›
Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1million people have died from Afghan heroin since then. “Afghan heroin… Read More ›
Fifty alleged former Auschwitz guards may face prison terms in Germany, sixty-eight years after the end of World War II, local media have reported. The former Auschwitz guards, who’ve never faced prosecution for their posts, were tracked down by the… Read More ›
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of… Read More ›
By Stephen Gowans In an April 3 Wall Street Journal article, “U.S. dials back on Korean show of force,” reporters Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes revealed that the White House approved a detailed plan, called ‘the playbook,’ to ratchet… Read More ›
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING — It seems scary, even crazy: talk of a “sea of fire” and an “arc of destruction,” nuclear missiles slamming into distant shores. North Korea, an “isolated state,” as we’re constantly told by media reports, hurls… Read More ›
Both USFK and SK Ministry of National Defense dispute figures that show troop levels far above the agreed upon 28,500 By Kim Kyu-won and Gil Yun-hyung, staff reporters USFK troop levels, which have remained consistently in the 26,000 to 29,000… Read More ›
Russian senators are drafting a bill on prohibiting the glorification of Nazi crimes and the usage of any Nazi or similar symbols and gestures in the country. Violation of the law will be punishable by a fine from 300,000 rubles… Read More ›
Democracy Now! reports this morning: While praised for his work with the poor, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — now Pope Francis — has long been dogged by accusations of his role during Argentina’s military dictatorship. We speak to Horacio Verbitsky,… Read More ›
Comrades around the world! Today we celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day. We reaffirm that the link between women’s liberation and total human emancipation from exploitation is unbreakable, and that we cannot have one without the other. To speak about… Read More ›
By OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA He wrote, he read, and mostly he spoke. Hugo Chávez, whose death has been announced, was devoted to the word. He spoke publicly an average of 40 hours per week. As president, he didn’t hold regular cabinet meetings; he’d bring… Read More ›
Jonathan Watts and Virginia Lopez in Caracas Vice president Nicolas Maduro takes up interim post Wave of mourning breaks out in streets of Venezuela Chávez to get state funeral in Caracas Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night… Read More ›
By Jasper Copping Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule. But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach… Read More ›
AFRICANGLOBE – South Africa’s deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder gave the hornet’s nest of land ownership a sharp political poke in the Country’s Parliament this week. He suggested that Black “Bantu-speaking” people had no historical claim to 40 percent of South… Read More ›
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