Latest news

• Global Exchange

False Fronts for Wall Street are examined at CounterPunch news.

• Daily

After four years planning and much commotion surrounding the process, the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples is now a page in history. It has been hailed as everything from insulting…

• Daily

BDS against Israel, and formerly against South Africa, used the three-part formula of Boycott Divestment Sanction. Divestment, as used by 350, omits boycott and sanction, and limits divestment to meaningless,…

• Daily

One of the recurring scenes in the iconic comic strip Charlie Brown is the one where his sister Lucy holds the ball for Charlie to kick, promising not to move…

• Daily

On the heels of yesterday’s historic climate march (which according to some estimates drew nearly 400,000 people), today the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced its new fossil fuel divestment campaign. Divestment…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• FW Geo-Politics
• Human Rights
• People

With the Holy See and Canada opting out of Article 13 and Article 3 (respectively) the UN High Level Plenary Session of the General Assembly today adopted the World Conference…

• Global Exchange

In No Justice on the Plate, Chuck Tanner examines the water quality battle between Washington tribes and big business, including the fear mongering by the usual suspects from the Far…

• Global Exchange

The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A69.L.1 – High Level Plenary Session – World Conference on Indigenous Peoples Outcome Document on 22 September 2010. Dubbed an “Action Oriented” document,…

• Daily

Garikai Chengu explains Islamic terrorism as a product of U.S. policy, funding and intervention on behalf of Israel, Wall Street and the military elite.

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
• Economy
• FW Geo-Politics
• Political Economy

Commentators and essayists throughout generations have often made the observation that( (I paraphrase here): States’ governments do not give up their power easily and the power they are least willing…