On Sunday, a Saudi-led coalition air strike ripped through a market in Sanaa, Yemen, killing 69 civilians and injuring dozens of others. People had been…
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Susana Bastarrica is the Founder/Organizer of The Annual Vigil for International Peace and Ecology which was inspired by from the 9/11 tragedy and The United…
Recently I worked in another Maine city and was astonished at the number of patients I encountered who were using heroin. I had never seen anything…
Authors Mark Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree discuss their new book, "The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits From Global Violence and War." They contend that…
UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster. At…
-Bolivia is having all kinds of civil unrest. The steep 50% drop in state oil revenues in the past year has caused President Evo Morales…
The United Nations is posting a new environmental warning: the world is running out of time to prevent the gradual degradation of the world’s oceans…
President Barack Obama is on track to go down in history as one of the, or perhaps as the worst and most criminal presidents in…
As hackers continue to rampage through closely-guarded information systems and databases with monotonous regularity, there is a tempting new target for cyber-attacks: the world’s nuclear…
Miri Regev, Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sports, supports torture. She is not alone. Joining her is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while practically all ministers…
Saudi Arabia’s relations with the United Nations have hit rock bottom after a series of incidents that has left a humbled Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon furious…
Our refusal to acknowledge the human cost our violence blinds us to the malevolence of US imperialism According to the Pentagon, US led airstrikes against…