After 54 years, U.S. raises flag in Cuba
A jubilant flag-raising at the reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana is giving way to serious talk about the road ahead in improving relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
Today in history: U.S. Marines invade and occupy Haiti 100 years ago
The story of Haiti is a case study in the injustice of the international finance and monetary system.
Huckabee comparison of Iran deal to Holocaust reflects power of money
To get elected, many right-wing politicians depend upon millions from AIPAC, the oil-rich Koch brothers and the gambling casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson.
SOA Watch protest links immigration with foreign policy
Pinochet's army in Chile, generals who fueled El Salvador's civil war and murderous paramilitaries in Colombia's drug war have all been trained at the SOA.
Rights groups sue feds over immigrant families
"What we are seeing in Artesia is nothing less than a sham process that values expediency over justice".
Cuba Caravanistas welcomed in Dallas
Participants explained why they are going: "To deliver aid to our brothers and sisters in Cuba as a direct challenge to the U.S. government's cruel and immoral economic blockade."
U.S. policy driving the children north
The poverty and suffering of Guatemalans, and especially indigenous Guatemalans, is rooted in long term U.S. policy in the region.
U.S. trade policy linked to crisis at the border
The mass migration of children from Central America has been at the center of a political firestorm over the past few weeks.
With Iraq under threat, questions emerge
Among those hard questions, many Iraqis believe, should be a serious re-think of the damaging U.S. policy of manipulating ethnic and sectarian blocs in Iraq.
"Daylight" appears on Israel-Palestine conflict
J Street, the six-year-old "pro-Israel, pro-peace" liberal Jewish organization, with some 180,000 members and supporters, met in San Francisco June 7-8 in its first national summit on the West Coast.
