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Frankfurt City Council Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters

After a highly acclaimed run in North America, Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour across Europe. The long journey includes shows in Germany, with the final concert in the country originally planned to take place in Frankfurt…

There’s an International Media War for the Truth About Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipeline

News reports emerging from Germany and the United States claim that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind the blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. By Roger McKenzie German daily newspaper Die Zeit, public…

Save Sinjajevina’s Nature and Local Communities!

EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement; the Prime Minister of Montenegro; and the Ministry of the Defense of Montenegro We will deliver this again if you keep signing it! Here’s a report on our delivery of it in July 2022. Urgent:…

Biden’s $1 trillion budget for world war

The White House unveiled its budget request for the 2024 fiscal year Thursday, with the largest ever proposed spending on the military. It is a $1 trillion budget for world war. The Biden administration wants the resources to fight Russia…

Yanis Varoufakis brutally attacked by group of thugs in Athens

Last night Yanis Varoufakis, secretary of MeRA25 Greek party and founder of DiEM25, was attacked in Exarchia, Athens and was taken to hospital with injuries. The condemnation of the violence towards the Greek MP came from (almost) everywhere, as he…

How U.S. Military Spending Works

Here’s how this works each year. 1) Biden proposes a massive increase in military spending — above and beyond both what he proposed the year before and what the Congress increased that to. If you look at U.S. military spending according…

Gigi Sohn Withdraws FCC Nomination After Vicious Industry and Right-Wing Smear Campaign

Gigi Sohn , President Biden’s pick for the Federal Communications Commission — and a champion of net neutrality and consumer rights — has withdrawn her nomination following an onslaught of attacks by industry lobbyists. On Tuesday, conservative Democrat Joe Manchin…

Guatemala – An exclusion that tastes like fear

Opposition movement rejects TSE’s arbitrary measure The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala has arbitrarily denied the registration of the presidential candidate of the Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples (MLP) in next June’s elections. “These are totally absurd…

Women Don’t Let Women Drive War: Feminists Say Fire Nuland

When President Biden nominated Victoria Nuland as Undersecretary of State, CODEPINK feminists objected to her nomination out of concern she would bring pain and heartache to mothers and daughters as she fomented war in their midst. Instead of promoting diplomacy,…

Costa Rica uses artificial intelligence to combat hate speech

Costa Rica will be the first Central American nation to use artificial intelligence to combat hate speech and discrimination. The National Artificial Intelligence Strategy was developed with the support of the United Nations country team, according to the United Nations…

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