Generation Orange: Heartbreaking portraits of Vietnamese children suffering from devastating effects of toxic herbicide sprayed by US Army 40 years ago They were born decades after American forces had sprayed the herbicide dioxin Agent…
Category: Europe
I am worried that we will forget Chelsea Manning. Currently the verdict has been rendered and the spotlight is on her but after a while the spotlight will dim, the flood of letters and support…
While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House…
Office of Net Assessment Hires Booz Allen Hamilton to Conduct Study on Africa As the corporate media focuses on the current war drive against the Middle Eastern nation of Syria, Washington’s militarist policies toward Africa…
South African workers are continuing their struggle against the bosses with strike actions spreading from the mines, automobile plants, air transport technology stations to construction sites. On September 3, thousands of members of the National…
Several newspapers claim that U.S. Secretary of State Kerry said that there is proof of sarin gas used in the recent Syrian incident. These claims are false. McClatchy headlines: Kerry says it was sarin gas in…
The day before the scheduled American attack on Syria, Israel’s Prime Minster was lonely in his office. He didn’t remember such a hot summer, but he wasn’t getting younger. Yet, he still remembered intriguing remarks…
President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on the Syrian crisis, while on a visit to Vladivostok in the weekend, were his first ones since the crisis began snowballing over the United States’ moves to launch a militarily attack against the Middle Eastern country. What is striking from the Kremlin’s transcript is that Putin spoke far more extensively than what the media reports suggested, and, second, he spoke on virtually every aspect of the explosive situation. The timing is very important, too, as less than a week remains for the major international event G20 summit which is scheduled to be held in St. Petersburg on Thursday, bringing together the world’s top leaders, including President Barack Obama around a conference table.
On Saturday, August 31, President Barack Obama—in the words of the New York Times—”stunned the world” by giving a speech in which he promised to give the U.S. Congress time to weigh in…
The president is celebrated for seeking a vote on his latest war even as his aides make clear it has no binding effect It’s a potent sign of how low the American political bar is…