Source: Ricochet Repression and murder rampant as questions raised about Canada’s security cooperation David Murillo waits patiently for an update. Next to him, a table overflows with piles of manila folders packed with documentation of […]
The people of Sarayaku are a leading force in 21st century indigenous resistance, engaging the western world politically, legally, and philosophically. Source: Yes! Magazine Patricia Gualinga stands serenely as chaos swirls about her. I find […]
Source: Truthout As through so much of its history, the small Andean nation of Bolivia sits at the center of a whirlwind of political, social and climatological questions. Arguably, no other country thus far in […]
Source: TeleSUR English I dropped out of my first year of college to work in a garment factory. I did this because I believed that workers were the agent of change in society, so the […]
Source: The Nation In Buenos Aires, on January 18, Alberto Nisman, a government prosecutor, was found dead in his apartment, shot with a 22. The death, either a suicide or a murder, has rocked Argentine […]
Source: Associated Press Cuba’s President Raúl Castro has demanded that the United States return the US base at Guantánamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country’s border policing strategies. In his PowerPoint presentation, a photo of […]
Source: TeleSUR English We arrived in Argentina and everything in Buenos Aires looked about the same as two years ago, and the year prior, and the ones before that for that matter; a city somewhere […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up ‘Pandora’s box’ of environmental impacts Oil and gas roads are encroaching deeper into the western Amazon, one of the world’s […]
(IPS) – The Mexican government will face close scrutiny from the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances – a phenomenon that made international headlines after 43 students from a rural teachers college were killed in […]
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