by Maurizio Sacchi
Haiti sinks deeper and deeper into violence and chaos. It has been without a prime minister since 12 March, when Ariel Henry resigned after armed gangs prevented him from returning from Kenya, where he had signed an...
by Ambra Visentin
Over the past five years, European countries have almost doubled their arms imports and their dependence on US suppliers is at an all-time high. At the same time, the volume of arms transfers in the world has...
by Maurizio Sacchi
At least two clichés about the relationship between Colombian criminal organisations and politics are demystified in the memoirs of former narco Carlos Lehder. His book, Life and Death of the Medellín Cartel (below is the cover of...
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...
by Maurizio Sacchi
There are currently 19 million poor people in Argentina out of a population of 46 million: 41 percent. This is a dramatic figure, and it does not look like it is going to get any better, as...
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 Jeffrey D. Sachs* - Common Dreams, OtherNews
The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command. According to the Book of Joshua in the...
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 Higerta Gjergji
Indigenous communities in Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, have been opposing oil exploration in their territory for decades. In 1996, the Argentine company Compañía General de Combustibles (CGC) obtained a contract with the state oil company Petroecuador....
