Human rights groups are reacting with alarm to a proposed $1.15 billion dollar transfer of U.S. battle tanks and other weapons to Saudi Arabia – a day after the Gulf country resumed bombing Yemen’s...
India’s human rights activist Irom Sharmila ended her 16 year hunger strike this week. Force-fed through a tube by court order, by some accounts Sharmila weighed about 77 pounds. As Bismillah Geelani reports, the...
Wednesday marks 71 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the end of 1945 widely accepted estimates say about 214,000 people – mostly civilians – had died; an unknown...
The Greens held their party convention over the weekend in Houston where they picked Jill Stein as the party’s nominee to run for president. She spoke with FSRN’s Seán Kinane about the November election....
Turkey may defy international pressure and reintroduce the death penalty in the wake of last month’s abortive coup. That was a central theme of the weekend’s massive Democracy and Martyrs’ Rally in Istanbul. FSRN’s...
Videos released in Chicago police killing; questions persist in Baltimore shooting Protests in Paris over deaths in police custody have parallels with Black Lives Matter Forced evictions taint Olympics’ legacy in Rio Spike in...
Two more incidents of black people killed by police are galvanizing the movement for accountability in law enforcement this week. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio In Chicago, the Independent Police Review Authority...
The Olympic Games officially begin in Rio de Janiero and hundreds of thousands of tourists, athletes and officials are expected to descend on the city. Protesters held an anti-Olympics opening ceremony Thursday decrying forced...
In India, attacks against members of the Dalit caste at the hands of Hindu extremists are on the rise. That’s led to protests across the country by Dalits who are now showing themselves more...
California voters will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana in November. That’s exactly 20 years after state voters approved the nation’s first medical marijuana law. But the medical marijuana industry is divided on full...
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