Tag: Spotlight
There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the Western-backed corrupt, brutal regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, he who was bestowed the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize by the imperialists on the Nobel...
In late June, during public commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War that resulted in over 240,000 deaths—local authorities called for a reduction of the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, which hosts over 20,000 U.S. troops.
Last August, a...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) brands itself as a civil rights watchdog.
Founded by Morris Dees, Joseph Levin and Julian Bond in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, it gained a favorable reputation in liberal circles in the 1980s for filing civil lawsuits for monetary damages on behalf of the victims...
On March 4, 2018, Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian intelligence officer turned British defector was allegedly poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, along with his 33-year-old daughter Yulia.
The two were admitted to a hospital after they were allegedly found unconscious on a public bench in the...
Donald Trump has taken yet another step in the ruling class’ quest to trash civil liberties, expand the brutal role of cops and other agents of the state and wage an all-out assault on Black people across the country...
A darling of the Bush II and Obama administrations, Álvaro Uribe Vélez has had close connections to the Medellín and Cali drug cartels along with fascist paramilitary groups that committed heinous crimes in a war against left-wing guerrillas
In late July, former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002-2010) was sentenced...
Dedicated peace activists are committed to abolishing nuclear weapons amidst looming threat of nuclear war
Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the 2025 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
I bring you greetings and solidarity from civil society movements in the U.S. which have been working diligently for...
This year was different from celebrations since 2021 when there were, perhaps, 5,000 people invited—this year there were about 50,000!
It took place in the Plaza de la Fe where the July 19th celebrations were held for many years with open attendance of hundreds of thousands and little organization. That...
Over the past 30 years, the proponents of the Unipolar World have proceeded to methodically dismantle the norms, principles and diplomatic usages to such an extent that contemporary international relations are characterized by social media postings.
First, UN resolutions have been construed to provide a veneer of legality to wars...
CovertAction Magazine co-founder Philip Agee was one of the best known whistleblowers of the 1970s, writing a tell-all book exposing CIA crimes and the influence of multi-national corporations in driving illegal covert operations.
After the book’s publication, Agee was retaliated against by the CIA, which forced him to live the...
