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President Rafael Correa of Ecuador opens the CELAC summit

33 Heads of State or their official representatives arrived at the UNASUR headquarters from 6.30am this morning to be greeted by their host in a colourful and musical welcome. Taking place in the Nestor Kirchner building, named after one of…

North Korea’s Socialist Realism export trade

Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang was founded in 1959 and is one of the world’s biggest art factories – Dafen Art Village in China’s Shenzhen surely is another. It employs about 4,000 people, including 800 to 900 of North Korea’s…

Argentina: Free Milagro Sala

Argentina: Free Milagro Sala Wed, 20/01/2016 – 20:53 Humanists denounce and reject all forms of violence, in particular when people who fight for social change are deprived of liberty, such is the case of Milagro Sala. Milagro represents a social…

U.S. vs. Them: Trump, presidential politics & the Middle East

Dr. Michael Izady Interviewed by Russell Whitehouse Dr. Michael Izady has been a professor of history and political science since 1991 at various European& Ivy League universities, and has providedin-depth lectures on the Middle East for NATO and US military…

The deeper reason why Syria negotiations are doomed

Negotiations were supposed to start in Geneva today, January 25, 2016. The media is full of analyses of why it won’t happen and how virtually everybody disagrees with everybody else about who should be there and who should not.  All…

What about Syria?

The defeat of Syria , will accomplish a long US´ goal: to get rid of the Russian military seabase in Tartus, at the Syrian coast. The MediterannianSea shall be a US Lake´-full stop! The grand plan is to take over…

Djukanovic to be jailed after Montenegro joins NATO

My name is Ion Todescu. I’m Bucharest-based freelance journalist, worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2007-2013  and with leading Romanian newspapers e.g Adevarul etc. Now I’m the owner of well-known personal blog (drakulablog.com). Today I’ve written an interesting piece…

Wars, speculation and new economic models

We reported in Pressenza, in 2011 and 2014 the role that Saddam Hussein’s Oil-for-Euros may have played in the Iraq War, similar to Gaddafi’s Gold Dinar: “Attempting to understand what is happening in Libya without looking at the global crisis…

Drop food not bombs on Syria

 How is it that at the click of a button bombs can be dropped anywhere in Syria yet when it comes to supplying food aid and medicines month after month of talks are needed.  Clearly it’s all a lying charade.…

War memorial whips up a storm in an Assamese teacup

A near-completion war memorial in the heart of Guwahati city has emerged as an issue of un-ending debates among many Assamese academician, writers, journalists and ex-service personalities. While a section of prominent citizenry have raised voices to halt the construction…

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