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Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews

Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism.   It is with a […]

Hotel Intercontinental siege – is Kabul falling?

Afghanistan is now facing mortal danger. It has to survive, but it is not clear how it can manage.   Hotel Intercontinental in Kabul, which was attacked by gunmen last […]

The dangers of focusing all our attention on Donald Trump

Trump’s erratic presidency is a manifestation, not the cause, of democratic decay. The unfolding political crisis will outlast him. So must the resistance.   It’s been a year since Donald […]

Che’s legacy, the blockade and Cuban solidarity

 “Breaking the Blockade” was a short series where we interviewed Claudia Camba, coordinator of the Cuban missions in Argentina, about solidarity, internationalism and the blockade against Cuba.   The first episode […]

Towards an endgame?

Turkey makes a decisive move against Kurdish fighters on the border with Syria   On January 20, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Turkish forces alongside the Free Syrian […]

Lula, Brazil Elections and the Left

TeleSUR speaks to Sabrina Fernandes, a professor and researcher at the University of Brasilia.   In an exclusive interview with teleSUR, Brazilian professor and researcher Sabrina Fernandes discusses former President Luiz Inacio […]

“The sanctions must be terminated and the economic war must end” – Alfred de Zayas

Interview with Professor Dr iur. et phil. Alfred M. de Zayas, UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order.   From 26 November to 4 December […]

Trump presidency survives by paying off the ruling class

Journalist Michael Wolff’s new book “Fire and Fury” depicts Donald Trump as totally unfit to serve as the chief executive of U.S. imperialism. It describes the Oval Office as a […]

Honduras: the coup has the “seal” of the United States

For over two months, the Opposition Alliance has claimed that their candidate, Salvador Nasralla, was the winner of the presidential elections of November 26. Gilberto Ríos Grillo is a national […]

Destroying Greeks, Plundering Greece: The Latest Update

Industrialists-Creditors order, SYRIZA-ANEL vote and the people pay the new bill A catastrophic multi-bill that brutally affects the interests of workers, consumers and the poor and lower middle classes was […]

The Responsibility to Protect the World … from the United States

One of the most ingenious propaganda weapons ever developed is that the powerful nations of the West—led by the United States—have a moral responsibility to use military force to protect […]

Palestine, Israel, the US, and how South Pacific countries are selling their votes

Here it goes again! Several countries of Oceania (also known as South Pacific Nations), or however you want to call that vast, beautiful but thoroughly devastated part of the world, […]

The evidence of economic war against Venezuela

“Forbidden to see the obvious.” This written on a street mural comes just at the right time to inform those who ignore the continued economic aggression that Venezuela has suffered […]

Has Japan joined the ‘great game’ in the Indian Ocean?

The recent visit to Sri Lanka by Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono saw governmental confirmation of Sri Lanka’s first Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project. A statement from Prime Minister Ranil […]

Trade unionism in France: the negative impact of « social dialogue »

Social partners or class antagonists? In a recent pedagogical work*, Stéphane Sirot, a historian on trade unionism, questions, in the context of employer-employee relations, the concepts of « social democracy » (1) […]

Terrorism

Understanding the Muslim World