On May 3, and again on May 5, the Israeli air force bombed Syria’s capital of Damascus. According to Syria’s Sana news agency, the targets hit on May 5 included the military research center at Jamraya, an airport at al-Dimas and a site at Maysalom, all to the northwest of the capital. Other reports claim [...]
Tens of thousands of workers marched through central Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, on May Day to demand the death penalty for the owner of the Rana Plaza building that collapsed April 24 killing more than 525 workers, most of them young women, and injuring 2,500 more who were found trapped in the rubble. Hundreds of young [...]
During the week of April 17, an official American Federation of Government Employees delegation, led by National President J. David Cox — along with some members of its National Executive Council — visited the settler state of Israel. Cox was the recipient of the 2012 Public Service Award from the American Friends of the Yitzhak [...]
April 29 — In Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, nearly 400 workers, mostly women, have died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building on April 24. In addition to the appalling number of deaths, more than 1,200 were injured, many horribly, in the country’s worst industrial disaster. Emergency teams [...]
Will the traditional May Day workers’ demonstrations in Europe evolve into a gigantic anti-austerity protest this year? Massive protests are expected in Portugal, Spain and Greece, at a minimum, and in all countries there is the possibility of actions spilling beyond the traditional boundaries with coordination across national borders. Workers — including tens of millions [...]
The United States government took a major step toward direct military intervention against Syria with a White House letter to Congress on April 25 stating that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. President Obama stated earlier that such a determination would mean U.S. military action. Anti-war activists in the U.S. and around the world, [...]
Taken from an April 10 audio column at prisonradio.org. Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. It is one of the ironies of history that the descendants of the beleaguered Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, subjected to the bitter hatreds and repression of the Nazis, have established an entire sea of the [...]
The U.S. government is increasing its leading role in the war to topple the government of Syria. At the April 20 meeting of the 11 member “Friends of Syria” held in Istanbul, Turkey, Secretary of State John Kerry announced a doubling of U.S. aid to the Syrian rebels. An additional $123 million in “nonlethal” aid [...]
Shock and outrage erupted in a courtroom in Guatemala City on April 18 as a recused “appeals” judge suspended the genocide trial of Efrain Rios Montt. The former general had come to power through a military coup in 1982. He and his head of intelligence, Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, were finally charged with mass murders that [...]
In Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, at least 300 workers, mostly women, died at the Rana Plaza garment factory building collapse on April 24. In addition to the appalling number of deaths, more than 1,200 were injured there in the worst industrial disaster ever to befall this country. The search continues to find [...]
