International issues

The Press is suffering from conspiracy theory fatigue. Sixty years on, the economic para-state continues to meet, now at the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen, for its annual jamboree, gathering bankers, industrial and business moguls, their press lapdogs and the politicians…

In the wake of the recent presidential elections in Egypt, Baher Kamal takes a look at some of the underreported facts about the situation in the country. CAIRO, Jun 2 2014  – Unconsciously or not, most mainstream media and foreign…

by Tony Cartalucci, NEO – TRANSCEND Media Service Elections pushed ahead in Ukraine, obstructed in Syria, so mass murder can continue. The West’s weaponization of democracy. Early polls began for Syria’s presidential election, as the country begins turning the tide against…

By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 29 2014 (IPS) – The world is increasingly hungry because small farmers are losing access to farmland. Small farmers produce most of the world’s food but are now squeezed onto less than 25 percent…

All information about Ukraine tends to orbit around the three main gravity centres… By Olga Khzaryan Position of the State Department: Free people of Kiev threw down the dictatorship of Yanoukovich and now, nobody dare oppose them of squandering the…

May 11, while in Mariupol people’s homes were still smouldering in ambers, then came a new storming. That was the “mass storming” of the electoral booths where the plebiscite of the Donetsk region’s people took place resulting in the “Donetsk…

I’ve eye-witnessed the Odessa events of May 2, when the neo-Nazis killed my fellow activist Andrey Brajevsky, member of the Borotba party. Aleksey Alba, wounded on the same day, was repeatedly interrogated by the SBU. He was to be arrested…

Geneva, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Climate change and its consequences were at the center of the plenary of the World Health Organization Assembly, which continues today its meetings in the Palais des Nations, chaired by Cuba. Several ministers and other…

Moscow, May 19 (Prensa Latina) Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops involved in drills near the Ukrainian borders to return to their barracks after concluding operations, the Russian press service confirmed today. “The decision to return these forces to their…

230 cities, 33 countries and 5 continents. Fast food workers are demanding higher salaries. “A few background facts from the Agenda Project Action Fund. (Alter Net) Fast food CEO’s make 1,200 times more than their employees The current federal minimum…