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Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez for Democracy Now! A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable…

AMY GOODMAN and NERMEEN SHAIKH for Democracy Now! To discuss the role of foreign powers fueling the ongoing conflict in Syria, we are joined by Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent. “It is clearly a proxy war. This…

Interesting Times in North Korea – those who care, shudder. What next? Following the execution of Jang Song-thaek, the unknown remains. Is the young Kim (Leader, Kim Jong-un) bent on further centralising power and continuing on the much-derided (internationally) path…

By Edward Snowden Source: Folha De S. Paulo Tuesday, December 17, 2013 Translation/source, ZNet Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government’s National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist’s camera. I…

The Argentinean economist Guillermo Sullings at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in June this year, explained that “…it is clear that capitalism is approaching a dead end. That capitalism, which sometime ago appeared to reformulate its distributive equation encouraging…

Transcript of Avram Noam Chomsky’s lecture: (Transcript of audio recording), Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, Bonn, June 2013 Question from conference moderator at the end of the presentation: You have been very critical of the press. What would you like…

The story of one truck convoy from Manila to the Central Philippines where typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) struck continues to develop with further runs by the same groups, as previously reported here on Pressenza. See – http://www.pressenza.com/2013/12/minas-mission-tacloban-aiding-typhoon-victims/ Willa Tecson reports: Second…

Press release Over 50 civil society groups demand a paradigm shift in EU trade and investment policies *Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Today, a European alliance of over 50 civil society organisations [1] will launch the Alternative Trade Mandate [2],…

 Dennis Rodman is planning to travel back to North Korea to train the nation’s basketball team, despite the news of the execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, Jang Song Thaek that might be inopportune, not least for himself, such…

Melanie Strickland argues that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is putting the interests of capital above people. New Internationalist Blog Today, 10 December, has been recognized as Human Rights day since 1950. The day marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration…