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Marine Corps veteran, Philip Kuper Tottenham, born and raised in San Antonio, is in the Mediterranean, aboard the 46-foot “Veterans Boat,” Ohwayla. The ketch is part of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)*. It is now in Tunis, meeting other contingents,…

A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up. They casually explained that the mafioso come weekly…

September 2025 — A coalition of activists has launched an urgent international campaign demanding that governments support a UN-mandated multinational armed protective force to halt what they describe as Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The campaign, coordinated by…

President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. He alleged that the skiff came…

His Veterans for Peace flag flying, 90-year-old veteran and peace activist Bill McNulty joined the final stretch of a 22-mile cross-Long Island Sound kayak event that drew attention to the fact that 22 military veterans commit suicide every day. Sponsored…

Bangladesh’s banking sector is living with a problem everyone knows about but too many prefer to look away from: non-performing loans (NPLs). By the end of 2024, distressed assets such as loans that are defaulted, rescheduled, or written off had…

This summer has been about detention and deportation as much as it’s been about resistance. As the Trump administration is encouraging immigrants across the country to “self-deport,” ICE arrests skyrocketed across the country. Perhaps the most emblematic of this has…

The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article, a mirror is held up to Uncle Sam to see how well…

An imagined community Ukraine is an Eastern European territory that was originally part of the western part of the Russian Empire and the eastern portion of the Polish Kingdom in the mid-17th century (the division according to the 1667 Peace…

The 25th August 2017 was the witness of the tragic Rohingya refugees from their homeland. The huge influx of about 1 million Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh was talk of the town then, across the World Community. The shift in global…