There does not have to be a conspiracy for people to be permitted space to grapple with this outcome in the context of a system that constantly grants rich and powerful people total impunity for their crimes.
“I am not Mandela’s product,” Winnie Madikizela-Mandela once told an interviewer. “I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.”
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Youth Day, as it is known in South Africa, is a national holiday commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising against the white-minority apartheid government. Arriving almost an
The body of a chemical weapons expert who was critical of the UK’s use of “weapons of mass destruction” as a pretense for war, was unearthed and cremated.
This past week, the Kelly family decided to unearth the corpse of their beloved family member and cremate his remains. In 2003, Dr. David Kelly, formerly a United Nations (UN) weapons
Cubans will pay final respects on Monday and Tuesday to the late president and revolutionary, known simply as “El Comandante” or “El Jefe” on the island.
Thousands of Cubans are flocking to Havana’s Revolution Square Monday to pay final respects to revolutionary leader and former President Fidel Castro, who passed away Friday night at the age of 90. A long
Organizers of the art contest had been criticized for provocatively inviting people to depict Prophet Muhhamad in competition for cash prizes
In this photo provided on Monday, May 4, 2015 by Geert Wilders, Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam Freedom Party, center, poses for a photograph with police officers he hired in advance of a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of Prophet Muhammad in Garland, Texas. An exchange of gunfire outside a provocative
Several immigrants crossing the border illegally will not be charged with any crime and a spokesman for the border patrol said the action was justified.
Around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, a U.S. border patrol agent shot and killed a man near a U.S.-Mexico border crossing, after the man allegedly assaulted the officer by throwing rocks at him.
Local news accounts reported the
BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a Syrian prison Thursday and rebels stormed in behind him, freeing hundreds of inmates as part of an offensive aimed at capturing key government symbols around the northern city of Aleppo, activists said. Government forces, meanwhile, dropped crude “barrel bombs” in deadly […]
BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a Syrian prison Thursday and rebels stormed in behind him, freeing hundreds of inmates as part of an offensive aimed at capturing key government symbols around the northern city of Aleppo, activists said. Government forces, meanwhile, dropped crude "barrel bombs" in deadly
