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A protester walks between burning tires in Managua, Nicaragua, April 20, 2018. Clashes, between protesters opposed to social security reforms and police and pro-government groups, rocked the capital, and a half-dozen other cities over the last three days. (AP/Alfredo Zuniga)
Target: Nicaragua

The NICA Act: Empire Sets Its Sights on Nicaragua – Again

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OPCW Investigators Reportedly Found «No Evidence» Of Chemical Weapons At Syrian Facilities Targeted By US

According to new reports, OPCW investigators have spoken with Russian military officials after visiting the site of the Barzeh research center in Damascus.

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Russian military police officers check a weapons factory left Jaysh al-Islam, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, April 16, 2018. Faisal Mekdad, Syria's deputy foreign minister, said on Monday that his country is "fully ready" to cooperate with the fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that's in Syria to investigate the alleged chemical attack that triggered U.S.-led airstrikes. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

While it will likely take the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons weeks or even months to issue their final report on the alleged gas attack in Douma (an attack for which journalists and other independent parties have failed to find any evidence), the organization's investigators have apparently spoken with Russian military

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The Indigenous Community that Rebelled Against Narcos, Thieves, and Politicians … and Won

Seven years ago, in the southern Mexican state of Michoacán, a community besieged by organized crime and the politicians that enabled it, rose up against those who would do away with their way of life — and through it all inspired a country.

José Luis Granados Ceja
Por José Luis Granados Ceja
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CHERAN, MEXICO (Report) -- On the road leading into this hardscrabble town in Mexico’s southwest corner, there stands a checkpoint staffed by heavily-armed guards, clad ominously in balaclavas, or ski masks. This scene is not particularly unusual for this violence-plagued country, but Cheran is no ordinary place: seven years ago this month, the

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America’s Most «Jewish» Secular College Votes to Divest from Israel

Barnard has the highest proportion of Jewish students among secular colleges in the United States. Fully a third of its student body is Jewish, meaning that a significant number of those Jewish students either supported the divestment referendum or were uninterested in actively opposing it.

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
A display erected by students at Barnard College and Columbia University in protest of Israeli apartheid. (Photo: Godland)

NEW YORK – Students at Barnard College just voted overwhelmingly to ask the school’s administration to divest from and boycott eight companies that do business with Israel and profit from the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians. Barnard, a women’s college that is part of Columbia University, passed the referendum by a 64 to 36 percent

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As Humanitarian Crisis Deepens, US Refuses to Say There Are Civilians in Gaza 

Faced with the unimaginable choices of being shot by snipers, crushed by rubble from an air strike, or dying slowly as the Strip becomes more uninhabitable with each passing day, Gazans have made it clear that they will resist until the very end.

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
Relatives of a Palestinian Iman who was shot and killed Friday by Israeli troops during the ongoing protest along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, carry his body to the family house during his funeral in Gaza City, April 14, 2018. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

GAZA – Though Gaza has long been the target of Israeli hostility – which has ranged from a decades-long illegal blockade of the area to several wars of aggression – this year has arguably been unlike any other for Palestinians who call the Gaza Strip their home, as airstrikes pound the area and its infrastructure still struggles to function. Those

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As Russia Considers Air Defense Upgrade for Syria, US Makes Secret Visit to Israel

Rumors that Russia may be moving advanced air defense upgrades into Syria have triggered bellicose rhetoric and threats between Israel, Russia and their respective allies.

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Russian S-300 air defense systems on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Increasingly, it appears that the recent U.S. coalition missile strikes on Syria have utterly backfired: instead of weakening Syria or degrading its military capabilities, the attack may have actually served to strengthen Syria's defenses. Since the massive strike which involved the U.S., U.K., and France launching over 100 cruise

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Trump the Latest in Long Line of US Presidents Trampling on International Law

Trump, like many presidents before him, essentially argues that international law must be broken if it is to be saved. With the bombing of Syria, however, he violated more than just international law.

John Wojcik
Por John Wojcik
From left to right, Presidents McKinley, Johnson, Reagan, Bush, Obama and Trump | Composite image - all photos Creative Commons

The U.S. missile attack on Syria in response to unproven chemical weapons use by the Assad regime once again puts America in violation of the international laws that we claim to support. The UN charter forbids such action unless it is in self-defense or approved by the UN Security Council, neither of which applies in this case. Ominously, the

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