News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[Update, spoke to soon. It is now reported that the United States has the prisoner. Panama bowed to Uncle San.. no surprise there. -- NP] [Chickens come home to roost -- NP] Panama holds ex-CIA officer in rendition PANAMA CITY (AP) -- A former CIA base chief convicted in the 2003 abduction of a terror... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism is the problem. Revolution is the solution. -- NP] Thousands of workers on strike in Brazil SAO PAULO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil walked off their jobs on Thursday in a mostly peaceful nationwide strike demanding better working conditions and improved public services in Latin America's biggest nation. Metalworkers, transportation... Continue Reading →
Venezuela offers asylum to U.S. fugitive Snowden By Daniel Wallis and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs. Snowden, 30, is believed to be holed up in... Continue Reading →
[America has no humanity -- NP] Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient... Continue Reading →
[US-back deathsquad states terrorize the people of Latin America. So what's new? -- NP] Effort to clean up Honduras police force stalls TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In the midst of a scandal over the police shooting of a university president's son, the government of Honduras launched an unprecedented effort last year to clean up a... Continue Reading →
[Just as in Bahrain, Turkey crushes dissent. There is little word from Washington, DC. In fact, many of the arms used against the peoples in Bahrain and Turkey are from the United States. The United States is a big-time ally of these two regimes that are attacking their own people. Yet the United States cries... Continue Reading →
[Support those who refuse to participate in crimes against humanity. --NP] Young objector challenges Israeli army JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has jailed a young man for six months for refusing to serve because of his opposition to Israel's occupation of the West Bank, focusing attention on the longstanding conflict between the country's universal... Continue Reading →
[The United States has a long history of terrorizing the masses of Latin America. --NP] Honduran police accused as death squads By ALBERTO ARCE TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported... Continue Reading →
[The United States backs the dictatorship in Bahrain even as it tramples civil rights. The United States is only about advancing its own interests. --NP] Bahrain demonstrator jailed for flag 'insult' MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A Bahrain demonstrator was sentenced to three months in prison Thursday for hanging a Bahrain flag from his truck during... Continue Reading →
[The US-backed dictatorship in Bahrain has brutally attacked protesters. The United States claims to stand for democracy in Syria, but supports the brutal attacks on the masses in Bahrain. Just goes to show that so-called "human rights" and "democracy" are just rhetoric. What matters to the imperialists is advancing the interests of imperialists. -- NP]... Continue Reading →
Over Three Decades On The Death Of Bobby Sands Still Resonates by John Wright (Huffpost) "I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul." With these words, written 31 years ago, Bobby Sands began the hunger strike which culminated in his death after 66 days on May... Continue Reading →
[Where is the due process? -- NP] Guantanamo hunger strike at 100 prisoners MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. military spokesman says the number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has held steady for nearly a week. Army Lt. Col. Samuel House says 100 of the 166 men held at the U.S. base in... Continue Reading →
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