Ukraine Hunts Down “Traitors Helping Russia”

Jeremy Kuzmarov State terror operations that follow from CIA playbook contradict saintly image of Zelensky promoted in the U.S. media. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s saintly image in the media is contradicted by state terror operations being conducted under his orders against political dissidents and Ukrainian civilians accused of collaboration with Russia. The Associated Press reported last week…

CIA Files Confirm Guantanamo Bay Torture Program’s MKULTRA Roots

Kit Klarenberg GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA —In March the CIA declassified a 2008 CIA Inspector General report on the agency’s treatment of 9/11 suspect Ammar al-Baluchi at overseas ‘black sites’ and Guantanamo Bay. The report was released as a result of legal submissions and its shocking contents offer an unprecedentedly candid snapshot of the brutal physical and psychological…

Illegally Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Faces US Court Amid a Shifting Global Context

Roger D. Harris Alex Saab’s April 6 hearing takes place in the setting of a mercurial world situation, where events in Ukraine may have indirect bearing on his case and on the larger US economic war against Venezuela. In a world where the US believes it makes the rules and the rest of humanity must…

International Appeal for Political Prisoners in Ukraine: Set the Kononovich Brothers Free!

Mikhail Kononovich and his brother Aleksandr Kononovich were arrested by Ukrainian security forces on Sunday, March 6.. After 6 days of silence, we now have an update on the position of our comrades. They have been detained at a Kiev pre-trial detention centre. They’ve been thrashed a number of times and they are still alive. Both…

Guantanamo:The Illegal Pretext to Hold Prisoners of War

Alejandra Garcia “The United States is violating the law by maintaining the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba as a prison, where most of the inmates are being held without criminal charges,” said attorney Thomas B. Wilner categorically during a conversation with this reporter via video call. Wilner, a prestigious lawyer in his country, is since…

Argentine Political Leaders Demand Immediate Release of Indigenous Activist Milagro Sala

Tanya Wadhwa Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala has been detained since January 16, 2016. Photo: Committee for the freedom of Milagro Sala/Twitter Indigenous and social activist Milagro Sala has been under house arrest since January 16, 2016 over charges that activists allege are politically motivated January 16, 2022, marked six years since the illegal…

On Human Rights’ Day, UK Court Permits Extradition of Julian Assange to US

Peoples Dispatch (Photo: Wikileaks/Twitter) The British High Court’s decision overturns the January decision by the district judge that found that extraditing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange would be “oppressive”. Rights advocates and Assange’s supporters and family strongly condemned the High Court’s decision On Human Rights Day, a British court cleared the way for the extradition of…

Leonard Peltier’s Message of Struggle: ‘We Made Things Better for Our People’

Leonard Peltier National Day of Mourning march in Plymouth, Mass., Nov. 25. Photo: Jimmy Powell The following message from Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier was read at the 52nd National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 25, 2021. For more information about his case, visit WhoIsLeonardPeltier.info. Greetings relatives, Each year as November nears,…

Camila Saab Speaks Out: Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat “Kidnapped” by US Government Talks to MintPress

Mnar Adley and Alan Macleod On Wednesday, November 24, MintPress News Editor in Chief Mnar Adley sat down to speak with Camila Saab, the wife of imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Saab was on a diplomatic mission to Iran in June 2020, where he was tasked with securing deals for food, medicine and personal protective…

Statement of Alex Nain Saab Moran

16 October 2021 My name is Alex Nain Saab Moran with Venezuelan diplomatic passport number 045778720. I am a special envoy with diplomatic immunity to the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran since April 2018 and Venezuelan Ambassador Plenipotentiary Alternate to the African Union. I was hijacked by Cape Verde on June 12,…

Coercion, Kidnapping and Legal Malfeasance: The Illicit Route of the Alex Saab Case

Mission Verdad A poster calling for the release of diplomat Alex Saab in Caracas (Photo: Nurphoto / Getty Images). In multiple venues, including meetings that, within the framework of the dialogue process taking place in Mexico, the government of the Bolivarian Republic demanded the immediate and full release of Alex Naín Saab Morán. To this…

Saab Case Shows Western Media’s Casual Acceptance of US Atrocities

Joe Emersberger A Colombian businessperson named Alex Saab was traveling to Iran on behalf of the Venezuelan government in June 2020. His official mission was to negotiate shipments of medicine and other essential products to Venezuela.  He was arrested in Cape Verde at the behest of the US government, where he remains to this day; President Joe Biden has…