Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
A report by one of the world’s leading medical journals has supported earlier findings that Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was poisoned to death nearly a decade ago. According to British journal the Lancet, Arafat was… Read More ›
Although the detention of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan only lasted a few hours, it was a bold indication of the country’s deepening instability since the civil war that toppled strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. In the early hours of… Read More ›
The flesh-eating drug Krokodil made its horrifying United States debut two weeks ago in Arizona, but as many feared, its use has spread: there have now been three reports of the drug in a Chicago suburb. Krokodil, the inexpensive “heroin substitute” that is really… Read More ›
by CORD JEFFERSON Can this on-again, off-again trucker protest in D.C. get any fucking weirder than it already is? Yes, because anything is possible with speed. Despite one of the protest’s organizers saying yesterday that the “Truckers Ride for the Constitution”… Read More ›
by Michael Parenti The Sarin Mysteries Following Kerry, President Obama announced that the situation in Syria had changed irredeemably since August 21. The United States would have to attack. But, on second thought, Obama decided to leave the decision up… Read More ›
Greek government authorities are on alert after a union of Greek army reservists of Special Forces issued a statement urging the Greek administration to step down and make way for a national unity government. As Keep Talking Greece notes, the statement on the… Read More ›
by CARLOS BORRERO The Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap has died. Throughout what was once known as the Third World as well as among those with revolutionary consciousness in the centers of imperialism, we pay tribute to one of the… Read More ›
The August chemical weapons attack in the Syrian capital’s suburbs was done by a Saudi Arabian black operations team, Russian diplomatic sources have told a Russian news agency. “Based on data from a number of sources a picture can be… Read More ›
Costas Lapavitsas: The only way to defeat the Golden Dawn and Greek fascism is through popular mobilization that persuades Greek working people and the middle class that democracy and social change can create a just economy – October 3, 13 JAISAL… Read More ›
By David Ferguson A potentially lethal, flesh-eating narcotic compound is catching on in parts of Arizona. Users inject the drug to get high, and the scaly, rotten patches of necrotic flesh it can leave behind have led to the drug… Read More ›
By Li Jiabao (China Daily) State Council’s latest move reduces intervention and facilitates business The central government announced on Wednesday it will give up more administrative power to let the market better play its role, streamlining procedures for administrative approvals… Read More ›
by Eliza Shapiro, Christine Pelisek What pushed a Kenyan servant to flag down a commuter bus to flee the wife of King Abdullah’s grandson? Eliza Shapiro and Christine Pelisek on the shocking human-trafficking case It’s the story of the princess and her… Read More ›
Fighters of Kurdish Popular Committees in Syria have killed at least 83 foreign terrorists affiliated to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in northern province of al-Raqqa. The clashes broke out in Tal Abyad village on Monday when the al-Nusra terrorists were… Read More ›
SEOUL – North Korea on Sunday angrily denied reports that it had executed several state performers to cover up the past of its first lady, calling the media accounts an “unpardonable” crime. The denial came a day after the North… Read More ›
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