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By Carlos Marentes, La Via Campesena regional leader. September 21, 2009 - Tonight, the heroic Honduran resistance, represented by thousands of workers, peasants, women, teachers, indigenous and afro-descendent people, students, human rights activists, and people in general, is outside the...

By Michael Pillsbury Published by ArtDriver Taiwan's President Ma Yingjeou is attending the inauguration of Panama's President-elect Ricardo Martinelli in Panama City July 1 and then visiting President Daniel Ortega Nicaragua to demonstrate that Taiwan still has 23 diplomatic allies...

A Rainbow Flag Over Habana Marina Sitrin May 2009 We are on a main city block early Saturday morning. People gathering are high spirited, almost giddy. As people begin to form a line I exhale deeply, imagining it is just...

GUANTANAMO: How America Ignores Its Last Slave Processing Center The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a controversial United States detention center operated by the US military since 2002, which is on the shore of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 355 still...

"The military has arrested the president of Honduras this morning. Who knows what next? The electricity went off about 7:20. I doubt there's a connection between the two events. But pray for us." Confusion and alarm rings through this message...

The world should take notice of the absurd power grab by the UK government as it metaphorically and literally encircles Turks & Caicos with gunships and threatens to seize control of the government. Even the ever-so British Financial Time <...

It was July 4, 2006 when I first called on the American electorate to Make America PURPLE . The tide of change began rising that November when Democrats became the majority party in both the United States Senate and the...