by TD Daniell | September 18, 2015 | Current News
Garry Leech CounterPunch US Secretary of State John Kerry travelled to Havana this past August for the flag-raising ceremony at the re-established US Embassy in Cuba. While this event was viewed as a landmark occasion by many in the United States, including the...
by TD Daniell | September 16, 2015 | Current News
Stephen Zunes The Blog In April, the student senate at Earlham College, a Quaker liberal arts institution in Indiana, approved a resolution by consensus recommending the college endowment divest from three U.S. companies (Motorola, Hewlett Packard and Caterpillar)...
by TD Daniell | September 14, 2015 | Current News
Chris Hedges TruthDig The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career as a pariah within his...
by TD Daniell | September 11, 2015 | Current News
Sonali Kolhatkar TruthDig The photo of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi’s serene little body lying face down on a Turkish beach haunts me. When it first began making the rounds of social media, I refused to look. It was too painful and too much like what my own 2½-year-old son...
by TD Daniell | September 10, 2015 | Current News
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan truthdig The flood of people fleeing war and misery is swelling daily, reaching the shores and borders of Europe in a desperate bid for safety. They come from Syria, where a brutal civil war during the past half-decade has killed well...