Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
Police use force to break up Tunisia protest Demonstrators defy government ban amid growing anger over worsening economy and increasing clout of Salafis. Police in Tunisia have fired tear gas to disperse a rally to commemorate Martyrs’ Day and protest… Read More ›
A little-known and oft-overlooked historical example of workers’ organization is that of the Limerick Soviet in Ireland. In response to the British militarist siege of the city of Limerick in 1919, trade unions organized their own form of local governance… Read More ›
PYONGYANG, April 15 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is carrying out a great military parade here on Sunday morning to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il Sung. In a speech… Read More ›
A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your country,” has died and police are investigating her death as… Read More ›
Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Saturday as regards the U.S. moves to exploit the DPRK’s planned launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 for… Read More ›
by Jason Ditz Insists Mali Will Never Negotiate With Tuaregs His term is likely to be fairly short, as officials talk about holding elections soon, but Dioncounda Traore was sworn in today as Mali’s interim president, promising “to wage a… Read More ›
by JOHN ESKOW “You are Free, America, to Do as We Tell You!” What a pitiful spectacle. Ozzie Guillen, the hard-partying eccentric who manages the Florida Marlins, sits weeping in the harsh glare of TV lights, forced by his bosses… Read More ›
Interim President Expected Soon as Junta Also Promises to Step Down by Jason Ditz Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure issued a formal letter of resignation Sunday from his undisclosed hiding place, weeks after being deposed in a military coup. The… Read More ›
By Andrew Bashi “I am not committing suicide. They are killing me.” According to one witness, these were the last words of 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas before shooting himself in the head in Greece’s Syntagma Square last week. Speaking to The… Read More ›
By NIKI KITSANTONIS ATHENS — The death of a 77-year-old Greek pensioner who shot himself in the head outside Parliament in despair over his financial problems has shaken this austerity-weary country and a crumbling political system struggling to assert its… Read More ›
By DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece A protest that followed a memorial service for a retired pharmacist who committed suicide has turned violent, with some demonstrators badly beating a policeman in Athens and stealing his bulletproof vest and other equipment. Dimitris… Read More ›
By Joel Poindexter The recent YouTube documentary Kony 2012 has become quite a sensation. It has inspired millions of people to demand, in one form or another, that the U.S. military take action in Uganda in order to bring to… Read More ›
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — As the U.S. military pursues charges against the Army sergeant accused of killing Afghan civilians in what commanders say was a freelance rampage, a new question has arisen: Who was victim No. 17? Staff Sgt. Robert… Read More ›
Cuba, famed maker of delicious (and cancery) cigars, may just have an anti-lung cancer vaccine that’s worth getting excited about. CimaVax-EGF isn’t preventative, but it may make this horrible deadly disease just a plain old horrible disease. The newly available… Read More ›
Gas prices are rising not because of increased demand but because Wall Street is betting on higher gas prices. By Robert Reich, Guest blogger Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding… Read More ›
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