December 8, 2018
On December 6, human rights organizations denounced before the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the high incidence of violence against social leaders, which in the first 9 months of 2018, claimed the lives of 109 people. (more…)
December 6, 2018
In the face of the unceasing and surging Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests in France, the French government has been forced to roll back its decision of hiking taxes on fuel. (more…)
December 9, 2018
Photo: Naif Rahma
The US won’t budge to growing pressure to stop supporting the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, a high-ranking State Dept. official said. According to the UN, the conflict led to the largest humanitarian crisis of our time. (more…)
December 7, 2018
The theme song of the corporate media when it comes to Venezuela carries the repetition of the words undemocratic, dictatorship, repression and misery ad nauseam. (more…)
By John Perryon December 5, 2018
A fraudulent election one year ago gave Juan Orlando Hernández a second term as president of Honduras. The protests that followed were violently repressed. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on December 7, 2018
Painting by: Antonio Berni
Andrés Manuel López Obrador – or AMLO – became the president of Mexico on December 1. The leader of the Morena (National Regeneration Movement) party, López Obrador comes to the presidency from the left. (more…)
John Bolton, national security adviser to President Donald Trump, made a brief stop on his way to the G-20 Summit in Argentina to meet with the elected president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on December 8, 2018
Evo Morales
The recent decision of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia to allow primaries for 8 parties for the general elections begins the electoral process for the presidential election that will take place in October 2019. (more…)