Samidoun | May 8, 2016 Events and actions are being organized around the world to mark the 68th anniversary of the Nakba, the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homes and lands in order to create a Zionist settler-colonial state on the land of Palestine. These events both remember over 68 years of Palestinian […]
Review of Dr Abu Sitta’s Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir By Vacy Vlazna | Dissident Voice | May 5, 2016 I spent the rest of my life on a long, winding journey of return, a journey that has taken me to dozens of counties over decades of travel, and turned my black hair to […]
Sputnik – 05.05.2016 Residents and local administration officials in the northern Syrian town of Al-Hasakah rallied on Wednesday to protest against the illegal presence of 150 US troops in the Kurdish-controlled town of Rumeilan, Syrian SANA news agency reported. “We are categorically against the impermissible and flagrant violation of our country’s sovereignty. We will not […]
By James Petras :: 05.04.2016 Prologue: In 2004 I wrote Brazil and Lula: Year Zero (Edifurb: Blumenau, Sao Paolo 2005), in which I presented my analysis of the Lula-Workers Party (PT) regime in Brazil undergoing a Grand Transformation with the first stage represented by the PT’s incorporation into a government apparatus led by of bankers […]
By Edward Hasbrouck | The Practical Nomad | May 3, 2016 We won — and now, thirty years later, the government has finally admitted it. It’s not often that government officials admit to failure in the face of popular resistance. When they do, it’s an occasion for celebration. Draft registration was reinstated in 1980, supposedly […]
International Solidarity Movement | May 1, 2016 Hebron, Occupied Palestine – On the morning of the 24th of March around 8:30 am two Palestinian youths, Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, 21, and Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, also 21, were shot to death by Israeli forces after an alleged stabbing attempt in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Tel Rumeida. […]
Sputnik – 02.05.2016 ODESSA — Eight foreign reporters were prohibited from entering the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa to cover the events commemorating the second anniversary of the massacre in the city, a lawyer representing one of the people accused of involvement in the deadly events said Monday. “About eight journalists were not allowed to […]
The BRICS Post | May 2, 2016 Even as May Day protests were expected in cities across the world on Sunday, as economic crises and a rise in unemployment have fuelled anti-government sentiment, Brazil saw some radically different scenes. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Brazil’s main cities on International Workers’ Day in a […]
RT | April 25, 2016 The United Auto Workers (UAW) union at the University of California has been fighting to uphold a resolution passed to support the BDS movement against Israel. Its struggle has inspired other university unions to pass their own resolutions. The UAW Local 2865, which includes some 14,000 students and teaching assistants […]
Ma’an – April 24, 2016 A graduate student union at New York University on Friday voted in favor of joining the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights. Two-thirds of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee cast a vote in support of the resolution, which calls on both NYU and its […]
