TeleSur | – – The back and forth began over the rally that gathered more than 10,000 protesters in Chicago forcing Trump to cancel his electoral event. R&B singer John Legend, who regularly speaks out on mass incarceration and police brutality, defended the Chicago protesters that shut down Donald Trump’s rally after Donald Jr. complained about oversensitivity. He went on […]
Your Tax Dollars Enable Police Brutality Abroad: Egypt
By Chris Toensing | ( Otherwords.org) | – – Washington wants to loosen aid restrictions even as security forces crack down on innocent Egyptians. Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement exploded into the headlines, violence by American police officers has come under fire from activists and ordinary citizens alike. Less discussed, however, is how […]
Palestinian Families expelled by Israelis in ’48 to Syria now Forced to Gaza
By Silvia Boarini | (Inter Press Service) | – – GAZA, Palestine, (IPS) – In the safety of his sister’s bare flat in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, 42 year-old Iyad Yusef still shakes his head in disbelief when he recounts the journey that from war-torn Syria, brought him and his family to the relative safety of […]
Is Iran Pres. Rouhani trying to Rehabilitate Khatami & the Reformers?
By Frud Bezhan | ( RFE/RL ) | – – Iran’s president has broken a long-standing taboo by publicly defending a reformist predecessor, but his remarks were met with a muted response. In a speech broadcast live from Mohammad Khatami’s hometown on March 7, President Hassan Rohani hailed the former reformist president as a “dear […]
Thousands of Children Under Siege in War-Torn Syria
By Valentina Ieri | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Seeing children dying due to a lack of doctors and medicines, and seeing them grow up in a society with no food, schools or text books, is the reality of the daily life of more than 250,000 Syrian children currently under […]
Is the Clinton Campaign Borrowing Bernie Sanders’ Issues, Rhetoric?
By Bianca Perez | ( TeleSur Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont has stuck to his ideals throughout his campaign and has been criticized by politicians and media outlets for his message of a “Political Revolution.” Sanders has spread his ideas of racial inequality, criminal justice reform, universal healthcare and free tuition among others, as […]
Occupation forces from Israel disperse protests in Palestinian West Bank
Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Scores of demonstrators suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces dispersed weekly protests in the occupied West Bank with rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas, and skunk water. | h/t Ma’an Images. In the village of Bilin near Ramallah, Israeli forces reached the outskirts of […]
The FBI’s outrageous assault on the 1st Amendment and Apple
By Andrew Crocker | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) | – – Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the FBI, in which we argued that forcing Apple to write—and sign—a custom version of iOS would violate the First Amendment rights of Apple and its programmers. That’s because the right […]
Turkey’s Gender Stereotyping made a Mockery of Women’s Day
By Ece Basay | ( Globalvoices.org ) | – – March 8 is marked as International Women’s Day in Turkey, and is typified as elsewhere across the world by speeches appreciating the role women play both in the workplace and at home. Yet for the remainder of the year, women face an uphill struggle to […]
© 2025 All Rights Reserved