Category Archives: Americas
Is Nestle Involved in Murder Of Columbian Union Leader? | Alternet
The struggle to hold Nestle accountable for its alleged role in Romero’s death began with the 2007 conviction of Romero’s killers – itself a rarity in a country with a 95% impunity rate in unionist murders. When passing sentence, Judge José Nirio Sánchez ordered an investigation into the intellectual authors of the crime that would […]
MADDOW: Fair Game to DISCLOSE NAMES of Republicans WHO LIED to ABC News – Democratic Underground
After taking her viewers through the whole, long, ugly mess with ABC’s big “scoop” on the Benghazi emails and the how the story pretty much fizzled out by the end of the week with the discovery that Republicans were responsible for doctoring the supposed quotes from the emails that they published, Rachel Maddow had given […]
Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex? | VICE United States
You likely already know how overcrowded and abusive the US prison system is, and you probably are also aware that the US has more people in prison than even China or Russia. In this age of privatization, of course, it’s also not surprising that many of the detention centers are not actually operated by the […]
Hugo Chavez Told Me He Won’t Sell Oil to the Kochs | VICE United Kingdom
I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2,000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. The XL Keystone Pipeline. As Nagini, the murderous snake in the Harry Potter tales, had its master Voldemort, I figured the Keystone XL Pipeline […]
First Nations prepared to fight Harper government, Enbridge in international court | The Vancouver Observer
“Traditionally, non-indigenous folks would see chiefs standing out in front, but what the people didn’t know was that those chiefs took their directions from the women.” Now, with the Enbridge hearings taking place in BC and Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence entering her third week without food in Ontario, Goodwin said the struggles of First Nations […]
Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent | Alternet
The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior […]
Jorge Videla, Argentina’s Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail · Global Voices
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned […]
Selling off Wounded Knee | SocialistWorker.org
THE SITE of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890–land that is considered sacred by the Lakota tribe–is up for sale. A white man named James Czywczynski, who privately owns the land, listed it for sale a couple weeks ago with a price tag of $4.9 million. Czywczynski has made it clear that he will not […]
Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA From Regulating CO2 | ThinkProgress
Reuters reported that the Court’s decision of whether or not to take up the petitioners’ case will have a significant impact on future efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The appeals to the Supreme Court follow the DC Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal to reconsider the matter. The Court is expected to decide whether to hear […]
‘Worse than death row’: Gitmo hunger strike reaches Day 100 — RT News
The 166 prisoners have been there eleven and a half years and 90 per cent of them haven’t been charged with a crime. The hunger strike began in February after an altercation between prisoners and guards, after guards allegedly interfered with the inmates personal belongings including the mishandling of Koran’s. Original only a few dozen […]
