Masked anti-government protesters toppled the monument to Vladimir Lenin in Kiev on Sunday pulling him down with steel ropes, and smashing the granite figure with sledgehammers. A huge crowd queued to get a piece of the statue. A group of… Read More ›
International
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Libyan Assembly votes in favor of sharia law
Libya’s national assembly has voted in favor of making sharia law the basis of all legislative decisions in the county, meaning the Islamic legal framework will inform all future banking, criminal and financial cases. “Islamic law is the source of… Read More ›
Oligarchy in the Holy Land — Tiny Number of Families Dominates Israel’s Economy
By Alex Kane After America, Israel is the most unequal “rich” country in the world when it comes to wealth. The vast gulf between the American elite and the rest of the nation has increasingly been a hot topic of conversation… Read More ›
Gaza: Thousands rally to commemorate PFLP 46th anniversary
Palestinians take part in a rally in Gaza City, marking the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Palestinian Marxist revolutionary organization established in 1967. Source
Leonard Peltier on the Passing of Nelson Mandela: Apartheid Still Exists in America
COLEMAN, FLORIDA – Leonard Peltier, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, who has been imprisoned for the past 37 years, issued statement on the passing of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela. Peltier is serving a life sentence in the U.S…. Read More ›
Syria army seizes Israeli-made arms
The Syrian army says it has confiscated Israeli-made weapons in its latest operations against foreign-backed militants. A military source told the Syrian news agency SANA on Sunday that Israeli weaponry — including missiles — were seized in an operation in… Read More ›
R.I.P. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)
Today we mourn a great loss for humanity – the passing of Nelson Mandela, a hero of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the father of the modern South African state. As a member of the African National… Read More ›
‘Day of rage’: Police, protesters clash in Israel at plans to evict 40,000 Bedouins
Hundreds gathered in Israel on Saturday to rally against the government’s plans to resettle some 40,000 Bedouins. The proposal has triggered accusations of “discrimination” and “ethnic cleansing” from activist groups, also sparking a protest in the UK. The demonstrations were… Read More ›
Women Take on Fighting Role in Syria’s Kurdish North
Jamie Dettmer QAMISHLI, SYRIA — In Syria’s northeast, women are taking on unusually prominent roles in Kurdish security forces. On the outskirts of the Kurdish town of Derik, close to the Iraqi border, a billboard displays the photographs of more than… Read More ›
Is the US Exploiting Typhoon Suffering to Win Military Bases in the Philippines?
by John Glaser Last week I wrote about the potential for the Obama administration’s Asia-Pivot strategy to inflame anti-colonialist sentiment. I lamented that Washington tries simply to get around this popular opposition to the military surge in East Asia instead of acknowledging that… Read More ›
Butt-groping, bachelorette parties and rape threats: Rob Ford’s non-crack scandals
Yes, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s a crack-smoking, vicious, xenophobic, Tea Party hack. But it actually gets even worse JB STANIFORTH Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s admission yesterday that he smoked crack “in one of [his] drunken stupors” brings a long-awaited end… Read More ›
Armed men burn records of El Salvador war missing
By MARCOS ALEMAN SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Armed men broke into a nonprofit agency that works to locate children missing from El Salvador’s civil war and set fire to the group’s archives, national fire officials said Thursday. The intruders… Read More ›
Israel Agrees to Return Stolen Organs of Dead Palestinians
Palestinians carry the body of Jihad Aslan during his funeral at Qalandiya Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah Aug. 26, 2013. (Reuters) Israel has agreed to return organs of dead Palestinians harvested by its forensic pathologists during… Read More ›