Given the inability of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party to form a new Government headed by its leader, Pedro Sánchez, general elections have been convened for November 10th to seek a solution to the prolonged political crisis afflicting that European nation.... More


As the disappearance of forty three high school students from the Mexican Ayotzinapa Teachers School, in the State of Guerrero, is about to record its fifth year, the indignation of parents and other relatives, as well as of the community has risen to new heights following the decision of a local judge to set free a group of twenty four suspects.... More


Serious political and economic tension is affecting a major part of our Planet Earth following the recent attack by groups of drones against oil installations in Saudi Arabia, including the largest oil refinery in the world.... More


High power economic groups, which include some officials in the Trump Administration, could be conducting a conspiracy to depose Pope Francis and achieve the election of a new Pontiff closer to their interests.... More


Bolton fired! What gives?

Here in Cuba, we are surprised by the news of the firing of National Security Advisor John Bolton by Donald Trump. We ask, what does it mean?... More


By Charles McKelvey ... More


By Charles McKelvey ... More


The first day of school in Cuba

Today is the first day of school in Cuba. Here in Havana, near the studios of Havana Radio Cuba, a multitude of children could be seen, walking to their schools in their school uniforms, new book bags in hand, accompanied by their parents and grandparents.... More


By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout ... More


By Laurel Leff, The Conversation ... More


anberra, Aug 21 (PL) Australia will be part of the U.S.-led mission in the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday.... More


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Havana, Aug 21 (PL) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reiterated his rejection of US attempts to sabotage Cuban medical collaboration in over 60 countries.... More


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Biarritz is known for big Atlantic waves, but the loudest crashing at next weekend's G7 meeting in the French resort could be the sound of US President Donald Trump and his convention-wrecking diplomacy.... More


On August 9, 1945, the government of the United States, then headed by President Harry S. Truman, dropped a plutonium atomic bomb over Nagasaki, which instantly killed no less than 70,000 men, women and children and condemned to death tens of thousands more over the subsequent years.... More


An editorial by Simon Trisdall for The Guardian... More


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