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What the US Constitution Specifies about Choosing the New President, How it is Stacked against the People
By Stansfield Smith Regardless of the traditional bluster about the Founding Fathers and the world historic nature of the US Constitution, the electoral system it set up to choose a new president is far from democratic. We now find Trump…
Statement on the U.S. Recognition of Moroccan Sovereignty over Western Sahara
On this day, December 14th 2020, which marks the 60th anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, IFOR is issuing a statement on the recent developments regarding the conflict in Western Sahara. On…
Face 2 Face Teri Mattson
LIVE SHOW: Saturday, December 12 at 5 PM EST On this show we are speaking with Teri Mattson, Latin America Coordinator and a founder and coordinator for The Campaign to End US and Canada Sanctions against Venezuela. Our main discussion…
Democracy Groups Launch Project to Envision More Democratic U.S. Constitution
On the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, two pro-democracy human rights groups, Democracy Unlimited and Move to Amend, today launched a project to envision a more democratic and just U.S. Constitution. Toward a People’s…
Face 2 Face with David Rothauser
LIVE SHOW: Wednesday, December 9 at 5 PM EST On this show we are speaking with David Rothauser, filmmaker, writer, teacher, actor and producer of “Hibakusha, Our Life to Live”. This documentary tells the story of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima…
Statement from a Coalition of Pan African Organizations on the War in Ethiopia
By the United African Congress We are deeply disturbed by the escalation of violence following the declaration of war on the regional state of Tigray by PM Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia on November 4, 2020. We are New York-based Pan…
Martha Hennessy, Kings Bay Plowshares Anti-Nuclear Weapons Activist Sentenced
Martha Hennessy, the sixth of the Kings Bay Plowshares defendants to be sentenced, was ordered to serve 10 months incarceration as well as three years supervised probation and restitution. This was a downward departure from the guidelines of 18 to…
IFOR Statement on the Current Situation in Western Sahara
Today, on November 13th 2020, several media outlets have reported that the Moroccan army launched an operation near the border crossing at Guerguerat against a group of Saharawi protesters.1 The representatives of the Saharawi people had previously stated that any…
Is the generational gap a hurdle in unifying the Korean peninsula?
as reported by Bereket Alemayehu Just last week, we had an online global seminar on the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula organized by People for Successful Corea Reunification (PSCORE), an organization in special consultative status with the UN Economic…
Arsonist of three Black Louisiana churches sentenced to 25 years in federal prison
Holden Matthews, 22, pleaded guilty in February By Frances Madeson – Louisiana Illuminator The White Landry Parish man who torched three Black churches in April 2019 to curry favor with “black metal” music fans has been sentenced to 25 years…
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