by Higerta Gjergji
The nation of Haiti is currently ravaged by a severe and violent crisis. Armed gangs have taken control of 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince. In response to this escalating wave of violence, the Haitian government has extended...
By Jacob Botoga - Truthout
Nearly 23 million Afghans are facing “crisis levels of hunger” and 8.7 million are on the “brink of starvation.” This mass hunger has rendered millions of Afghans on the “verge of death,” according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Alongside...
By Alessandro De Pascale
Half a century after the global war on drugs, launched and imposed on the entire world by the United States (then led by Richard Nixon) more and more nations are calling for a reversal of that...
By Maurizio Sacchi
The Department of Correction, South Carolina's prison authority, announced last Friday that it was preparing to carry out death sentences by firing squad. The decision and the measure were taken in order to circumvent the obstacles that...
by Maurizio Sacchi
At 11.30 am today, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was granted permission by the High Court in London to continue his appeal against extradition to the United States. The next hearing will take place on 20...
By Ambra Visentin
For at least two years, Cuba has been suffering from severe shortages of food and other goods. It is the worst crisis since 1959, when Fidel Castro's revolution established a communist regime in the country, and it...
by Ivo Daalder * - Politico, OtherNews
When United States President Joe Biden decided to travel to Israel this week, his immediate objective was to express solidarity with Israel, to avoid escalating the war beyond Gaza and to ask tough...
John Kirk* – Al Jazeera
From June 6 to 10 Los Angeles will host the “Summit of the Americas,” with the basic goal of strengthening hemispheric solidarity. At a time when Washington is increasingly involved in supporting the war in...
By Gianni Beretta
On the streets of the rural town of Matagalpa (in northern Nicaragua), the day of August 4th must have looked like a TV series in the making: Bishop Rolando Alvarez appeared, raising the monstrance and blessing on...
by Ambra Visentin
Almost the entire metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is in the hands of illegal armed gangs - estimated to number close to 300 groups comprising between 15 and 1,500 men - who have emptied the prisons and...
