Above photo: Sierra Club-Hawaii Director Waynet Tanaka speaking at press conference. Sierra Club Hawai’i. Honolulu Citizens Demand the Closing of the US Navy’s 225 million gallon, 80-Year-Old, Leaking Underground Jet Fuel Tanks. The long citizen protest underscoring the dangers from the U.S. Nav…

Above Photo: Supporters of Mr Ortega’s FSLN party celebrate the Nicaraguan election results. (BBC.com) The Working Class Explains…And Debunks Common Lies. As predicted by multiple polls, the Sandinistas, led by Daniel Ortega, won a resounding victory on the November 7th elections in Nicarag…

Above Photo: COVAX vaccination in Ghana -WHO / Blink Media (Nana Kofi Acquah). Scientists in Southern African nations revealed the presence of the Omicron Covid-19 variant but the good deed was punished with worldwide travel bans. The World Health Organization makes clear that the rationale for th…

March for the Homeland reached the Bolivian city of La Paz on November 29 after covering a distance of more than 180km over seven days.  March for the Homeland reached the Bolivian city of La Paz on November 29 after covering a distance of more than 180km over seven days. Over a million people ha…

Above Photo: Jose Bezas / Reuters Xiomara Castro, the presidential candidate for the leftist opposition party Libre, seems to have won a resounding victory in Honduras’ presidential elections. Her victory comes in spite of attempts by the ruling National Party, which overthrew her husband, Manuel…

Above photo: Dr. Ute Finckh-Krämer,Germany. Former Deputy-Chair of the Bundestag Sub-committee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation. 34 current and former legislators from NATO countries sent a joint letter yesterday to United States President Biden encouraging him to adopt a polic…

Above Photo: Craig Murray. (Vodex/Flickr) The activist, blogger and former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was imprisoned for his journalism, walked free from Saughton Prison in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday. BREAKING: Former British ambassador Craig Murray finally released from prison #Welco…

Above Photo: A child embraces a globe shaped balloon during a rally held ahead of the start of the 2015 Paris World Climate Change Conference, known as the COP21 summit, in Rome, Italy , November 29, 2015. (Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi). A second leak from the Sixth Report of the UN panel of experts…

Above Photo: Nathalia Angarita / Reuters Pink Tide 2.0 Is Well Underway. Latin America, the 21st century’s leading region for progressive victories, is in the midst of a leftist resurgence. A new “pink tide” is commencing, with the left holding office in a number of countries and challenging f…

Above Photo: Protesters call for a civilian government during demonstrations near the presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan on November 30, 2021. Security forces have fired tear gas at anti-coup protesters in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday, in the latest demonstrations against a military takeover…

Above Photo: Paul Harkin, director of harm reduction at the outreach program GLIDE, distributes naloxone and fentanyl detection packets to people on February 3, 2020 in San Francisco. (Photo: Nick Otto for The Washington Post) “If our leaders fail to act, another year of devastating and historic o…

Camila Saab Speaks Out While Washington Cannot Choose The President Of Venezuela, It Can Make Life Impossible For Officials, Such As Alex Saab, Who Attempt To Defy Its Sanctions Regime.  On Wednesday, November 24, MintPress News Editor in Chief Mnar Adley sat down to speak with Camila Saab, the…

Above Photo: A discussion on the rise of the “UniverCity.” New Haven Rising stages a projection highlighting Yale University’s tax break as a nonprofit institution on August 26, 2020. (New Haven Rising) Davarian L. Baldwin’s recent book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, offers an insightful…

On Sunday, November 28, housing rights groups and other progressive sections in the Dutch city of Groningen marched under the banner #Woonstrijd to protest the acute housing crisis in the city. Various groups including Shelter Our Students (SOS), International Socialists Groningen, New Communist Par…

Above Photo: Antara Raman. What the media can never openly admit is that the largest peaceful democratic protest the world has seen in years – certainly the greatest organised at the height of the pandemic – has won a mighty victory. A victory that carries forward a legacy. Farmers of all kinds…

Above Photo: Hundreds of people wait in a line that stretched several blocks from the pantry for their turn to receive food at the La Colaborativa Food Pantry in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on November 23, 2021. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP Via Getty Images). As the COVID pandemic upended the economy in the s…

Above Photo: A new report details the relationship between four major retailers that ship goods to the U.S. and fossil-fueled carrier companies. (Ship It Zero). As a congestion crisis continues to stall polluting container ships in ports around the world, there is a growing awareness of the role tha…

 Whistleblower David McBride faces life in prison for revealing war crimes in Afghanistan to the media. Watch his story here. David McBride, a former Australian military lawyer, tells journalist Michael West about alleged war crimes and a cover-up in Afghanistan. He faces trial for leaking hundre…

Above Photo: El Milagro worker Guillermo Romero speaks at the vigil in Little Village, Chicago. (Arise Chicago) Gathered Outside Chicago’s Flagship El Milagro Taqueria, Workers Remembered Those Who Died From Covid-19—And Celebrated A Victory That Granted Them Sundays Off. Chicago — Food prod…

Above Photo: Water protectors organizing their camp site earlier this summer near Solway. (Nicholas Pfosi / Reuters) Life in the resistance camps is difficult, but activists say important work remains. Every few days, Jaike Spotted-Wolf walks over to a well near Camp Migizi to refill several five-ga…

Above photo: President Biden delivering remarks on the economy on Tuesday. Evan Vucci/AP News. Companies are raising prices well above increases in their costs. The only antidote is to finally take action against corporate power. In a time of high inflation, you hear a lot about companies “passing…

Above photo: Marchers show support for Amazon workers attempting to unionize in Bessemer, Alabama on February 20, 2021. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images. NLRB Orders New Union Vote After Amazon’s Alleged Misconduct. A union leader said the decision confirmed that “Amazon’s intimidati…

Since achieving independence in 1956, Sudan has had a number of military coup governments and popular revolutions that overthrew them. Most recently, the Sudanese people ousted the thirty year long dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir at the end of 2018 only to replace him with another military-led govern…

Above Photo: Preface (Sacha Llorenti) Four and a half million people died infected by COVID-19. This global tragedy is the prism through which we must analyse how and in whose interest the ruling system on the planet works. In the span of a few months, the pandemic compacted political, economic, and…

Above Photo: Libre Party Presidential Candidate Beat Out Her Right-Wing Rival Nasy Asfura To Secure Honduras’ Presidency For The Upcoming Term. (@XiomaraCastroZ / Twitter) After A Historic Voter Turnout Of 62%, And Despite Attempts By The Right-Wing National Party (PAN) To Claim An Early Victory…