Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
The rebels used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, a Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen reported. The toxic shell exploded near a Kurdish defense forces’ checkpoint close to the border with Turkey in the city… Read More ›
Nearly 30 million people across the globe live as modern-day slaves, according to a new report. Many are forced into being child brides, child soldiers, prostitutes, or laborers. India accounts for nearly half of the worldwide total. The Global Slavery… Read More ›
Kalai, like many other villages in Bangladesh, appears a rural idyll at first sight. But several villagers here have resorted to selling organs to pay back microcredit loans that were meant to lift them out of poverty. Journalist Sophie Cousins… Read More ›
According to Syria state television the leader of al-Nusra Front – an Al-Qaeda affiliated fighting force in Syria – has been killed. The group however has issued a statement denying the report and saying their leader is “in good health.”… Read More ›
The American Party of Labor is reprinting and disseminating the following communiqué from the Fight Back News Service. We fully endorse and support the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and stand in complete solidarity with Rasmieh Odeh and with other… Read More ›
By Stephen Zunes It has been exactly 30 years since US forces invaded Grenada, ending that Caribbean island nation’s four-year socialist experiment. The island nation no bigger than Martha’s Vineyard, with a population that could barely fill the Rose Bowl, was… Read More ›
Rules for the first development of its kind on the communist island take effect in November, but critics are worried. by Chris Arsenault Communist Cuba is the latest country to plan a “Special Economic Zone”, part of an economic model blasted… Read More ›
By News Bulletin. Translation & commentary by Axis of Logic La Iguana TV. Axis of Logic Monday, Oct 21, 2013 Editor’s Comment: The corporate media in the United States and Europe are fond of reporting “shortages” of essential goods available… Read More ›
The Renamo opposition movement said Monday that it was abandoning its 1992 peace accord with the governing Frelimo party, raising fears of a renewal of the old conflict. Renamo, which entered politics through the peace pact, ending the 1975-92 war,… Read More ›
Polls reveal that up to 70 percent of the Tajikistan population longs for the Soviet Union era. Industrial output is a fraction of 1990 levels, and some 2 million Tajiks have emigrated to Russia in search of work. By Iason Athanasiadis… Read More ›
by Assed Baig An edit of this article was first published on the Huffington Post website When Malala Yusufzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen simply because she wanted to gain an education it sent shockwaves around the world. The Western media… Read More ›
North Korean homestay offers unparalleled scenery, interaction with locals BY SUSAN AHN A state-owned “homestay” program on North Korea’s Chilbo Mountain invites foreigners to eat, sleep and experience the local lifestyle. Chilbo Mountain is located in the nation’s northernmost North Hamgyong… Read More ›
By Scott Kaufman The Anti-Defamation League reports that American members of Greece’s neo-Nazi “Golden Dawn” party have created chapters in Los Angeles and in what they’re calling “the Regional League of the Western States USA.” These chapters join the New York chapter founded… Read More ›
Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria have beheaded all 24 Syrian passengers traveling from Tartus to Ras al-Ain in northeast of Syria, among them a mother and a 40-days old infant. Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant… Read More ›
Israel has never confirmed or denied possession of nuclear weapons, but according to new report by US experts it has at least 80 operative warheads and has enough material to produce up to 190 more. In a report published in… Read More ›
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