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Ft. Meade, MD–This Thursday, Feb. 28, from 9:30am in the courtroom at Ft. Meade, MD, Army Private First Class Bradley Manning is expected to publicly explain his reasons for releasing classified information through WikiLeaks. This will be only the second…

Campaigners say this shows why a ban treaty must go ahead without them  The UK has said today that it will not be participating in next week’s international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapon use. The meeting will…

Police in Montreal have arrested ten university students during a protest against a decision by Quebec’s government to raise tuition fees. The demonstration on Tuesday had been organized by the student group Association pour un Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSE). The…

Today there is widespread disgust and hatred across Bangladesh against the Jamaat-e-Islami, the principal Bangladeshi voice of political Islam. Jamaat stands condemned for its support for Pakistan during 1971 when it embraced a forefront role in collaboration with the genocidal…

In 2008 Iceland became the focus of attention for progressive social movements around the world as the country’s only three (private) banks collapsed in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers bank collapse in the USA.  As much to the surprise…

France has rejected any talk of pulling its troops out of Mali in the near future, saying the troops are involved in “very violent fighting” in the mountains of northern part of the African country. France’s Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le…

The Argentine government has deplored the UK for ignoring international obligations by dispatching nuke-armed submarines to the Malvinas islands (The Falklands), which is a nuclear free zone, thus breaching an international treaty. Eduardo Zuaim, Argentina’s Foreign Relations Secretary was quoted…

For those of us, who learned about our liberation war of 1971 through history books or from our parents, the 2013’s Shahbag has a different, unique and important meaning. Don’t get me wrong, nothing can be compared with ’71, nothing…

The 2013’s Shahbag has allowed the youth of this country to relive the spirit of 1971, it reflects the hatred of the general mass towards the traitors who participated in the rape of Bangladesh in 1971, and represents the demand…

By Allison Lee Thanks to extensive research and noticeable changes in weather and storm prevalence, it’s getting harder to turn a blind eye to the reality of climate change. Since the Industrial Age spurred the increasing usage of fossil fuels…