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Trial Begins for Blackwater Guards Over Baghdad Massacre Article originally published on Common Dreams by Andrea Germanos Jury selection began Wednesday for the trial of four former Blackwater guards charged for their role in the infamous Nisour Square massacre that left 14 Iraqi civilians dead and wounded at least 18 others. The defense argues that... Continue Reading →
[Capitalism is a system that causes billions of deaths: genocide, structural poverty, endless wars, famine, curable diseases, etc. Capitalism is a nightmare. We must wake the people up. Their future, the future of their children, the entire planet depends on it. Revolution is a necessity. --NP] Remembering India’s forgotten holocaust by Rakesh Krishnan Simha (http://www.tehelka.com)... Continue Reading →
Brazil World Cup: Clashes at Sao Paulo and Rio protests (BBC) Riot police used tear gas and rubber truncheons to disperse about 50 protesters near a metro station on the route to the Arena Corinthians Police clashed with protesters in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and several other host cities on Thursday as the World... Continue Reading →
[We have differences with most of the main guerrilla organizations in Colombia. Revolution. Even so, to weaken the state there is to weaken imperialism. -- NP] Key Colombia oil pipeline shut again by bomb attack: source BOGOTA (Reuters) - A bomb attack blamed on Colombia's leftist guerrillas has shut down the key Cano Limon-Covenas oil... Continue Reading →
Peru approves gas project, spells disaster for uncontacted tribes (Survival International) Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes – despite international outrage, the resignation of three ministers, and condemnation by the United Nations and international human rights organizations. Peru’s Ministry of Culture, tasked... Continue Reading →
Who won the war? Russians take a different view on D-Day (Reuters) - Sitting in the shade on a bench in the center of Moscow, 77-year-old Galina Makarenko pauses for several seconds before delivering her blunt opinion on the Allied D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. "It helped us a little. But only a little,"... Continue Reading →
Stalingrad name may return to city in wave of second world war patriotism (theGuardian) For more than 300 years, the Russian city of Volgograd was known as Tsaritsyn. It was dubbed Stalingrad in honour of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for a mere 26 years, but then his successor Nikita Khrushchev dropped that name as part... Continue Reading →
[More genocide by the Israelis against the Palestinians. Yet another genocide bankrolled by the USA. --NP] Israel 'unblocks plans for 1,800 settler homes' Jerusalem (AFP) - The Israeli government on Thursday ordered officials to move forward with plans for another 1,800 settler homes, just hours after issuing tenders for 1,500 housing units, an official said.... Continue Reading →
[It is the duty of Leading Lights to protect the people, but also protect the Earth and its creatures. Capitalism is a system where the poor and Earth are brutally oppressed. Leading Light will provide a better life for all --NP] Kenyan police seize 300 elephant tusks being packed at port city By Joseph Akwiri... Continue Reading →
Bowe Bergdahl Wrote Before Capture: ‘I Am Ashamed to Be an American’ (www.mediaite.com) U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, recently released from years of Taliban captivity following the negotiation of a deal to swap him for the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees, allegedly deserted his fellow soldiers just prior to being captured by Taliban fighters.... Continue Reading →
[India's people suffer. Imperialism, capitalism, feudalism, patriarchy, caste, have created a brutal system where India's poor lived in terror. India's poor suffer daily violence from the system. The only answer is for them poor to make their voices heard, to raise their fists, to raise their weapons, to take power and smash the system. Revolution... Continue Reading →
Activists: Morocco back to pre-Arab Spring abuses RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Ouafa Charaf was heading home from a solidarity sit-in with a group of laid off workers in the northern port city of Tangiers, she says, when a small white van pulled up and two men forced her into the back and blindfolded her. "They... Continue Reading →
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