NED Boasts of ‘Laying the Groundwork for Insurrection’ in Nicaragua

Max Blumenthal While some corporate media outlets have portrayed the violent protest movement gripping Nicaragua as a progressive grassroots upswell, the country’s own student leaders have suggested otherwise. In early June, Nicaragua’s leading young activists went on a junket to Washington, DC, on the dime of the US government-funded right-wing advocacy group Freedom House. The…

PFLP: Commander Ahmed Saadat Calls for Deepening the Level and Extent of Popular Democracy

A press release issued by the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Saadat The excesses against the masses will place our people in front of the crater of a volcano that could explode at any moment Commander Ahmed Saadat calls for supporting the movement of the masses and deepening the…

US Policy of Separating Children from Parents is Unconscionable Torture

The sickening images of children cruelly separated from their parents and held in cages as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy of ‘zero-tolerance’ will leave an indelible stain on the reputation of the USA, said Amnesty International today. “This is a spectacularly cruel policy, where frightened children are being ripped from their parent’s…

Colombia: Far Right Ivan Duque Declares Support for the Zionist State

Colombia’s new president-elect Ivan Duque has said he’s considering to move their embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and become the third Latin American country, and the fourth in total, to follow the example of U.S. President Donald Trump. During a campaign event on May 16, Duque said he doesn’t rule out “the possibility of placing…

Operation Barbarossa II: The Wurlitzer of War Plays On

Christopher Black While the excitement of the World Cup in Russia keeps many of us fixed on the merits of the contending teams and the drama of the games, the news out of Brussels is disturbing. They’re preparing for war. With Russia. There is no other way to read what Jans Stoltenberg announced at a…

Western Media Whitewash Yemen Genocide

Finian Cunningham With the United Nations warning that millions of civilians could die from violence or starvation from the ongoing military siege of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, there is no other way to describe what is happening except as “genocide”. The more than three-year war on Yemen waged by a Western-backed Saudi coalition…