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Greek debt: Merkel urges deal before EU summit

  She has warned that the EU emergency summit on June 22 would not be able to make any decisions if there is no agreement with Greece. “Let me make it very clear as to the expectations. Such a summit can only become a summit of decisions if there is something to […]

We Are Greater Than The Fracked Gas Lobby

Print Friendly All photos by Lee Stewart Washington, DC – The dome was encased in a rigid web of scaffolding as I rushed by. Looking up at it on my way to the corner of Independence Avenue and New Jersey Avenue SE, I saw a country trying to hide a fatal illness. It’s beyond repair, […]

We Were Never Meant To Survive: Response To Charleston Attack

Print Friendly A mourner grieves during a prayer vigil at the Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Nine people were murdered Wednesday night at another historic black church in this city’s downtown. (Travis Dove/The New York Times) Wednesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, an act of terrorism […]

How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working To Criminalize Dissent

The problem is that the use of similar tactics has been discovered again and again in the years since. Following the anti-globalization protests of 1999, the 9/11 attacks, and the Occupy protests of 2011, similar strategies, enhanced by modern technology, have been ratcheted up and deployed against an ever-increasing number of activists and political groups […]

US Terrorism: White Supremacy’s Long History Of Violence

Print Friendly Police lead Dylann Roof into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015. (Credit: Reuters/Jason Miczek) The evidence is clear. The reports are in. There is no other conclusion. It’s 2015, and Black people in America are under a sustained and lethal terrorist attack. In North Charleston, S.C., not too far from the […]

Thousands Join Mass Climate Change Lobby Outside UK Parliament

Print Friendly Vicky Foxcroft MP meeting Ruby and Ava (eight) from Lewisham, London. Photograph: John Phillips/Getty Images Beekeepers, surfers, nuns and children were among thousands of people who lined up outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to speak to their MP about climate change. Some had woken up in the early hours to travel […]

Tunisia to close consulate in Libya after attack

  Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche said on Friday that the consular workers “have all been freed.” They landed at Aouina military airport in Tunis on a military plane later in the day. Referring to the abductions, Baccouche said, “After this serious incident, we have decided to close the consulate in Tripoli.” […]

Violence kills 70, injures 500 in Burundi: Rights body

  “We have identified 70 people killed, mostly by bullets but also grenades… the majority are civilians, as well as police and soldiers,” said Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa, who heads Burundi’s influential rights group Aprodeh. Mbonimpa said that around 500 people were also wounded, with 50 of them remaining in hospitals, adding that security […]

Iranian commander rules out inspections of military sites

  According to Press TV, on Friday, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said any visits to or inspections of Iran’s military sites “are forbidden,” stressing that “everyone should heed this red line.” “National interests and security necessitate that outsiders and those who […]

Yemeni factions fail to reach deal in UN-backed peace talks

  According to the reports, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who is a Mauritanian diplomat tasked with handling UN efforts for peace in Yemen, made the announcement on Friday. He added that if a new round of talks were held, an agreement on a ceasefire could be achieved “pretty soon.” He said, […]

38 Taliban terrorists killed in Afghan army operations

  According to Press TV, ten terrorists were also injured in the Friday operations in the town of Musa Qala, in northern Helmand, and the village of Kajaki, located in the northeastern part of the province. On Thursday, local Afghan security officials said the terrorists launched a series of coordinated attacks on […]

Reality Check: Is This Base Even Necessary?

Print Friendly Above photo: Protesters link hands encircling Futenma Base. From Japan Focus. Okinawa, Japan – The Okinawa Prefectural Government has chosen Nago City as the site for relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station at Futenma. Since no decision has been made as to whether the base will be constructed on a sea-borne platform […]

Greeks Will Default As Central Bank Turns On Government

“At the moment we haven’t got the money,” said Oxford-educated minister Euclid Tsakalotos. Greece has been without any aid from its creditors since August 2014. The Syriza government has been locked in five month stalemate over the release of a remaining €7.2bn owed to the country under its current programme. Athens only avoided falling into […]

I’m Standing Between Shell & The Arctic—Join Me

Print Friendly This morning off the coast of British Columbia, I went face to face with Shell’s Arctic drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer. It was terrifying. But there are moments in life when—despite your fear—you must act. Standing in my tiny inflatable boat, feeling small and vulnerable as Shell’s rig approached, I had to steady […]

Vermont Gas Protester Arrested At Essex Worksite

Print Friendly Johanna Anderson of Plainfield, a member of Rising Tide Vermont, is driven away after being arrested after chaining herself to a Vermont Gas pipeline under construction in Essex on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Rising Tide opposes the new pipeline which the group says will transport gas acquired by fracking. (Photo: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS) […]

The President’s Trade Deal Struggles Because It’s Bad Policy

Print Friendly The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a 12-country NAFTA-style trade deal with two serious problems. It doesn’t work, and it’s bad for democracy. First, everyone is in favor of trade. We can have good trade policy that raises living standards or bad trade policy that works fabulously well for a few, but very badly for everyone else. More than any other […]

Mass Protests Trigger On-Going Investigations Of Police Homicides

Print Friendly ERIC THAYER / REUTERS “Less than 3% of the nation’s 18,000 state and local police agencies have reported fatal shootings by their officers to the FBI.” In a recent article entitled “Fatal Police Shootings in 2015 Approaching 400 Nationwide” theWashington Post reports that 385 people across the US ranging in age from 16-83 have […]

France ready to share experiences with Iran in house construction

  During the meeting, the French side announced its plans to send three operational teams to Iran to exchange experiences with the Iranian side in building cities and houses. Akhoundi, for his part, referred to the two countries’ past cooperation in different fields, and welcomed France’s experiences in mass building, administrative decentralization […]

Spokesman: Baghdad displeased with int’l coalition’s war on ISIL

  According to FNA, Hadithi said on Thursday “The Iraqi government believes that international efforts to prevent ISIL’s penetration into the country are insufficient”. He stressed the necessity for the international community to act upon its undertakings and vows about fighting the ISIL, and said, “The Iraqi government’s assessments show that the […]

Turkey, France stonewalling Geneva talks on Yemen

  Al-Mayadeen TV reported that the Turkish and French diplomats present in Geneva are rocking the boat to block any progress in the talks between the Yemeni groups. Other reports said that the negotiating sides underline the necessity for the establishment of ceasefire but haven’t yet reached an agreement on its time […]

200 Nusrah Front terrorists killed, wounded in Quneitra, Dara’a

  An informed Syrian military source said that the army units in Eastern, Southeastern and Northern Reef (countryside) of Dara’a pounded and destroyed al-Nusra Front’s military equipment and vehicles armed with heavy machine guns. The source also said that the Syrian army units repelled the terrorist attacks against the residents of Tal […]

Saudi airstrikes target Yemeni convoy in Aden, kill 31

‘No Justice, No Peace’: Clarity Of Purpose, Warning To Ruling Class

Print Friendly Tamir Rice and the Meaning of “No Justice – No Peace” “If the existing structures of governance and social organization cannot provide justice for Black people, then those structures must be pushed aside – or there will be no civil peace.” The current campaign against police oppression in Black America is widely dubbed […]

Research: How A Movement Mobilized Masses

Print Friendly Danette Starblanket is the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy PHD student who is examining how Idle No More activated the global community to demand change to the way government deals with First Nations in Canada. (Photo Credit: Boehmer Photography) In 2012, the Idle No More movement (“the movement” or INM) sparked hundreds […]

Why The War Against BDS?… The Real Reason

Print Friendly Demonstrators hold up signs during a BDS protest in Melbourne, Australia, in 2010. Wikimedia Commons/Takver (CC-BY-SA) Well, here’s why. The Financial Times has published a big, and somewhat balanced, article on the rapid rise of BDS that includes two stunning financial numbers showing how powerful the nonviolent movement for justice in Israel/Palestine is becoming. The […]

Maine Leading The Way On Government Of, For & By The People

Print Friendly Demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court to bring attention to reconsideration of the Citizens United v. FEC decision.  February 23, 2012.  Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. Americans are fed up with the increasing grip of big money on our politics. This month, a new poll found that 85 percent of Americans — […]

92-Year-Old Booked Into Jail After Fracking Protest

Print Friendly (Photo: WFAA) DENTON, Texas — A 92-year-old woman was taken into custody and booked into the Denton jail for a short time on Tuesday after protesting at a fracking site. Violet Palmer said she knew that was a possibility when she joined her son and a small group of protesters outside a drilling […]

Leader message set up anti-extremism discourse: Zarif

  In a contribution to Harvard International Review, published by the journal on Wednesday, Zarif enumerated the requisite qualities of a consistent and coherent strategy to confront “violent extremism.” The piece asserted that winning such strategy entailed that religious leaders from around the world “be at the forefront of efforts to denounce […]

President Rouhani pledges continued support for Iraq in fighting terror

  “The main responsibility for combating terrorism and finally defeating it falls undoubtedly on the shoulders of the Iraqi nation and army,” President Rouhani said in a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Wednesday. “Nevertheless, the people and government of Iran have been and […]

West targeting Iraq unity: Leader

  According to Press TV, Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday. The Western intelligence agencies aim to destroy the pillars of Iraq’s political and national unity, Ayatollah Khamenei pointed out, adding, “One should vigilantly and carefully stand against this plot and […]

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