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Venezuela: Despite the crisis, Chavez’s legacy endures
When compared with the rest of the region, Venezuelans have the cheapest electricity, the greatest percentage of household connectivity and the highest per capita consumption, surpassing more industrialised countries such as Brazil
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Another Soul on IceTurkey’s Ongoing Attack on ‘Freedom’
Ahmet Altan, 69 year old writer… is in cell in Silivri Prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul
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Syrian Democratic Forces: Statement to public opinion
We affirm that our war against Daesh terrorism will continue until full victory is achieved with the total elimination of its existence
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Butcher’s dozen: The crimes of Bloody Sunday 47 years on
Shock and disbelief is the reaction to the decision of the Northern Ireland Prosecution Service to charge only one British Paratrooper in connection with the murder of 14 innocent civil rights marchers on Derry’s “Bloody Sunday,” January 30, 1972
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US Intervention Will Make Things Worse in Venezuela
No matter how bad the situation is in Venezuela, a US military response will only make matters worse for the Venezuelans
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Palestinian writer and Fatah representative attacked in Gaza
On the evening of Monday, March 18, some ten masked, armed men attacked novelist and spokesman for Fatah in Gaza Atef Abu Saif and his neighbor Abdul Meni’m Jadallah
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Newroz, a story of resistance against tyranny
To this day, on Spring Equinox, March 21st, Kurdish, Persian, Afghan and other people of the Middle East celebrate Newroz or New Day and Kawa the blacksmith
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With Helms-Burton, U.S. out to freeze foreign investment in Cuba
The Trump administration is renewing its efforts to squash Cuba as well, and Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act is joining an arsenal of weapons employed by the U.S. in what Cubans regard as genocidal aggression
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Marcha del retorno en Gaza (1018): Naciones Unidas publica contundente informe de 250 páginas sobre exacciones israelíes
Este 18 de marzo, Naciones Unidas dio a conocer su informe final, titulado “Report of the detailed findings of the independent international Commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Letter from slain International Volunteer Lorenzo Orsetti
“These are difficult times, I know, but don’t give in to despair, don’t ever abandon hope, never! Not even for a second.” Lorenzo Orsetti “I hope now that his death will say something about the cause of the Kurds.”
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Why is the Islamic Republic of Iran afraid of Nasrin Sotoudeh
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a leading Iranian human rights lawyer, was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes because of her work defending women’s rights and protesting against the country’s forced hijab laws
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Bloody Sunday, Derry, 1972
“The firing by soldiers of 1 PARA on Bloody Sunday caused the deaths of 13 people and injury a similar number, none of whom was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury…”
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Regime Change Via Sanctions? U.S. Uses International Finance System to Strangle Venezuelan Economy
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the U.S. military of launching a “cyberattack against the electrical, telecommunication and internet systems.”
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Unite – Trade unionists must try to free the Middle Eastern Mandela
Unite’s Tony Burke has visited a hunger striking Kurdish MP
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Colombia: Veto Could Undermine Accountability
Colombian President Iván Duque’s partial veto of a transitional justice bill could undermine and delay progress toward justice for wartime atrocities
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Colombia: New Army Commanders Linked to Killings
The Colombian government has appointed at least nine officers credibly implicated in extrajudicial executions and other abuses to key positions of the army
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Allush: DAESH prisoners exist, they are people and we need a solution
Zozan Allush, co-chair of the Humanitarian Affair Council of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria, said that developing a solution for the wives and children of DAESH mercenaries is part of the fight against DAESH.
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Duque and his boss Uribe stabbed the Peace Agreement in the heart
President of Colombia Iván Duque, fails to comply with the Peace Agreement endorsed by the Congress of the Republic in its second modified version after its rejection in the plebiscite
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Venezuela’s internal coup crumbles
Since 2017 it is reckoned that the illegally imposed sanctions have cost Venezuela $6 billion, and prevented it from importing $2 billion worth of badly needed medicine
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Rebuilding on quicksand
Challenges posed by the geopolitical jigsaw in Syria’s north-east are putting an unprecedented social experiment on the brink
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