Edward Snowden addressing an audience live in Berlin via video link on Saturday evening.
Nobel Peace Prize

White Helmets, Snowden …Trump: Who Will Take 2017’s Nobel Peace Prize?

Big-hitting nominations this year are said to include the US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

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Pope Francis’ Dark Past as Agent of US-Backed Military Junta in Argentina

Murder, torture and “disappearances” were commonplace under the military dictatorship that gripped Argentina in the 1970s. Pope Francis, despite being hailed as a “progressive” figure today, was supportive of the Argentine junta, even aiding in some of the atrocities it carried out.

Pope Francis’ Dark Past as Agent of US-Backed Military Junta in Argentina

In 1973, Chile fell to a U.S.-backed coup that led to the installation of the brutal military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. At the time, the Cardinal of Santiago, Raúl Silva Henríquez, took a stand against the newly-installed military

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a writer and researcher for The Last American Vagabond and a MintPress News contributor and former staff writer. She has contributed to several independent media outlets and her work has been featured by The Real News Network, The Ron Paul Institute, The Zero Hour, and The Jimmy Dore Show, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.

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Trump Latest Target: The Pope

Trump accused Pope Francis of being an instrument of the Mexican government because of his pro-immigration stance. The Vatican responded.

Trump Latest Target: The Pope

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is no stranger to slinging insults and criticism, but he might have been punching out of his league when he picked a fight with the Vatican over Pope Francis’ stance on immigration. But the Vatican fired back on Tuesday night, saying Trump has no business lecturing the pope when it comes to

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teleSUR English bring you world news with a focus on the people, the common citizen, and stories untold by traditional media. You will only find them at teleSUR.

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Pope Urges Catholic Church To Disavow Conservatism And Fundamentalism

Pope Francis spoke to Italian bishops about need for institution to be protected from ‘every pretence of power, image and money’ amid financial allegations.

Pope Urges Catholic Church To Disavow Conservatism And Fundamentalism

Pope Francis called on the Catholic church on Tuesday to stop clinging to conservatism and fundamentalism as a defensive response to the problems it is facing, and said the church ought to be “bruised,

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Pope Francis Apologizes for Church’s ‘Grave Sins’ Against Native People

Campesino leader Amandina Quispe, of Anta, Peru, who attended the grass-roots summit, said the church still holds lands it should give back to Andean natives.

Pope Francis Apologizes for Church’s ‘Grave Sins’ Against Native People

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Pope Francis apologized Thursday for the sins, offenses and crimes committed by the Catholic Church against indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas, delivering a powerful mea culpa on the part of the church in the climactic highlight of his South American pilgrimage. History's

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The Vatican Officially Recognizes The State Of Palestine

“Yes, it’s a recognition that the state exists,” said the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.

Pope Francis prays at Israel's aparthied wall on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Sunday, May 25, 2014. VATICAN CITY  — The Vatican has officially recognized the state of

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Pope Francis’ Drug War Riffs Keep Offending Mexico

First he warns of the impending ‘Mexicanization’ of Argentina. Then he says ‘the devil is punishing Mexico.’ ¿Qué pasa, Francisco?

Pope Francis’ Drug War Riffs Keep Offending Mexico

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis attends a special audience with the members of the UCIIM Catholic union of Italian secondary school teachers, in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, March 14, 2015. MEXICO CITY — Almost

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