Colombia

How a group of women affected by domestic violence and displaced by Colombia's conflict united to build their own cityThe post Colombia’s City of Women appeared first on Positive News.

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
This week another toxic revelation dripped out of the Chilcot Report.
According to top British SAS officers, US commander Stanley McChrystal’s counter-insurgency “black-ops” featured a program of relentless violence designed to ‘speed up’ the process of political cleansing and the so-called “reconstruction” of Iraq.

Has Hillary Earned The Right To Put This Guy In Line To Be President? Just Say No!-by Dorothy ReikAs the words of yesterday's endorsement of Hillary by Bernie were spoken, the NY Times was reporting the vetting of Admiral (ret.) James Stavrides as her Vice President.

By James Petras :: 07.07.2016 Amid raging corruption, social pathologies and outright political thuggery, a new gang of vassal regimes has taken-over Latin America. The new rulers are strictly recruited as the protégé’s of US financial and banking institutions. Hence the financial press refers to them as the “new managers” – of Wall Street. The […]

Exclusive: In a world darkened by war and disorder, a rare glimmer of optimism broke through as Colombia’s government signed a long-delayed peace accord with the country’s primary guerrilla movement, as Jonathan Marshall describes. By Jonathan Marshall With terrorist massacres…Read more →

Stop the presses! Going outside is good for your mind and body; West Virginia gets outpouring of support after deadly floods; and we're lovin' it as McDonald's closing 500 more locations.

Stop the presses! Going outside is good for your mind and body; West Virginia gets outpouring of support after deadly floods; and we're lovin' it as McDonald's closing 500 more locations.

By Ming Chun Tang | CEPR Americas Blog | June 26, 2016 As was reported following the assassination of prominent Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres in March, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erased all references to the 2009 coup in Honduras in the paperback edition of her memoirs, “Hard Choices.” Her three-page account of […]

Brexit boogie, looting art and policing protests + this day in history w/Blair resigns and our song of the day by DJ Shadow on your Morning Monarchy for June 27, 2016.

Sputnik – 23.06.2016 Military observers from Uruguay are ready to go to Colombia to monitor the newly-achieved ceasefire between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, Uruguay’s Deputy Defense Ministry Jorge Menendez told Sputnik. The government of Colombia announced on Wednesday that a deal had been reached on a ceasefire […]