Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addresses the U.N. General Assembly, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, as U.S. Ambassador Ronald Godard listens, at right. Richard Drew AP

United Nations Votes 191-2 To Condemn US Embargo Against Cuba

The two ‘no’ votes came from the United States and Israel, which almost always has voted with the U.S. on this issue.

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Canadian Military Explored Plan To Fully Integrate Forces With U.S.

Top generals met to discuss possibility of fully integrating Canadian and U.S. militaries.

Canadian Military Explored Plan To Fully Integrate Forces With U.S.

CBC News has learned that a Canadian military effort to formally create integrated forces with the United States for expeditionary operations included an even more ambitious option — a plan to fully integrate military forces, explored during a meeting with the top generals from the two countries. The Canadian military efforts were ultimately

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Assata Shakur: A Pawn In The US-Cuba Game?

How will the thawing of decades of chilly U.S.-Cuba relations impact a former rights activist who has lived in exile on the tiny island nation since she was sprung from prison — where she was serving a life sentence for murder — over three decades ago?

Assata Shakur: A Pawn In The US-Cuba Game?

In this April 25, 1977 file photo, Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J.  Now known as Assata Shakur, she was convicted in 1977 of killing a New Jersey state trooper four years earlier, in a case that drew international attention. She was sentenced

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Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher, freelance journalist, book reviewer and blogger. She writes about the struggle for memory in Palestine and Chile, historical legitimacy, the ramifications of settler-colonialism, the correlation between humanitarian aid and human rights abuses, the United Nations as an imperialist organisation, indigenous resistance, la nueva cancion Chilena and Latin American revolutionary philosophy with a particular focus on Fidel Castro, Jose Marti and Jose Carlos Mariategui. Her articles, book reviews, interviews and blogs have been published in Middle East Monitor, Upside Down World, Truthout, Irish Left Review, Gramsci Oggi, Cubarte, Rabble.ca, Toward Freedom, History Today, Chileno and other outlets, including academic publications and translations into several languages.

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Voices Of Dissent Reject The US-Friendly Narrative On Ukraine

When the US supports a government’s overthrow that’s “freedom”—but when it objects, that’s “Russian aggression.”

Amid the fast-moving and often confusing daily developments in Ukraine, it has fallen to relatively few journalists and observers to challenge the dominant western media narrative in order to expose that claims made by top policy officials and lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe should not be swallowed whole by those trying to understand the still

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Analysis: America’s Middle Class Falters As Nation’s Richest Rise

Report shows low and middle income earners falling behind comparable countries.

Analysis: America’s Middle Class Falters As Nation’s Richest Rise

The income inequality gap between the wealthy and those considered to be lower- and middle class is skyrocketing in the U.S. compared to other countries historically known to be less affluent, according to a new analysis

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Analysis: Weak US Hand In Ukraine Confrontation

Nearly a quarter century after the Cold War ended, the crisis in Ukraine symbolizes the weak foreign policy hand the United States often finds itself playing despite its status as the only global superpower.

Analysis: Weak US Hand In Ukraine Confrontation

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter century after the Cold War ended, the crisis in Ukraine symbolizes the weak foreign policy hand the United States often finds itself playing despite its status as the only global superpower. With a military confrontation with Russia off the table and European allies hesitant to join Washington in more robust

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Violent Gun Battle Shatters Short-Lived Truce In Ukraine

Agreements calling for reduced tensions and promises of a holiday cease-fire do not hold up to realities on the ground.

Violent Gun Battle Shatters Short-Lived Truce In Ukraine

A brokered Easter weekend truce in Ukraine that followed on an international agreement designed to reduce tensions last week was shattered early Sunday morning when a gun battle in the eastern part of the country resulted in the death of several people. Early details vary on the

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