The left wing-led government of Greece is digging in its insistence in restructuring its crippling debts that have plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis. Four years of imposed austerity measures have seen massive...
The United States and France are urging other UN Security Council members to support a proposal to create and deploy a multinational counterinsurgency force to fight Boko Haram in West Africa. The proposal comes...
Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch is one step closer to becoming the first female African American attorney general in U.S. history. It’s been one of the longest nomination periods in recent memory. But it...
U.S. sanctions against top Venezuelan officials have kicked off a new round of diplomatic tensions with the oil exporting South American country. For background on the story, FSRN’s Shannon Young spoke with Miguel Tinker...
Lawmakers in India are considering changes to the law that governs land acquisition – or eminent domain. Today the lower house of India’s Parliament passed a bill to reverse restrictions placed on land acquisitions...
Who can question whether President Barack Obama is a master when it comes to speeches? Such a quality literally put him on the map when he mesmerized a crowd at the 2004 Democratic National...
Tens of thousands of people converged on the city of Selma, Alabama over the weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a march for voting rights that was a milestone of the Civil Rights...
Justice Department probe finds overwhelming evidence of racial bias in Ferguson, Missouri policing and courts National movement for police accountability renews interest in civilian review boards Homeless veterans in Los Angeles struggle for access...
A new Palestinian protest camp was recently set up in the outskirts of Jerusalem. It has already been demolished several times by the Israeli authorities – only to be rebuilt – and it is...
Ten activists who took part in a nonviolent civil disobedience protest in Lower Manhattan ahead of the UN Climate Summit last September stood trial this week for disobeying a lawful order. They were found...
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