Russian officials are already making plans for the annexation of Crimea ahead of a referendum on the issue in the southern Ukrainian peninsula on Sunday. Officials are defiant against the threat of sanctions by...
In Brazil, Rio state forces have moved in to occupy Vila Kennedy, a violent neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The action is part of the city’s so-called pacification program in which state special forces...
Activists in Florida have been pushing back against the state’s “stand your ground” law as lawmakers in other states – like Ohio and Georgia – contemplate implementing or expanding upon the measure. Florida’s “stand...
[Note for stations: This report contains graphic imagery.] The use of solitary confinement in prisons has come under increased national scrutiny as of late, with many of its critics describing it as torture. While...
A commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal Download It is a national crisis. Worse – it is a crime. Schools all across Black America and in El Barrio are closed, shuttered. What does this mean?...
Immigration detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike last week to protest conditions at the facility. At the start of the action, ICE confirmed to the Associated Press...
In Turkey, some of the largest crowds since last spring’s Gezi Park protests clashed with riot police following the funeral for a 15-year-old boy who died Tuesday after nearly nine months in a coma...
The struggle in Thailand between Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s administration and anti-government groups is increasingly shifting to the courts to decide the government’s fate. As Ron Corben reports the governing Pheu Thai Party faces...
Three years after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, earthquake and tsunami, there is still no full explanation – or even consensus – as to what precisely went wrong with all the safety measures supposedly in...
Every year in March, student groups at hundreds of universities worldwide organize activities around Israeli Apartheid Week in protest of Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. The activities are meant to raise support...
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