U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday expressed support for a right-wing referendum to pull Venezuela’s leftist president Nicolas Maduro from power, provoking a powerful response from Maduro’s fellow socialist Evo Morales, president of Bolivia.
“From Maine to California,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders to great applause during a campaign stop last year, “the American people understand that establishment politics and establishment economics is not working.” (Photo: Common Dreams / CC BY 3.0)Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders neither announced the end of his campaign nor endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton during a live-stream address on Thursday night, but told supporters his call for political revolution will live beyond his campaign and this election.
“When we talk about transforming America, it is not just about transforming elections,” he said during the approximately 20-minute speech.Read More »
The Mongols established the largest land empire in the history of the world.
But Europe was never part of it.
And this single fact has been driving historians crazy for a long time. Recent studies have found an answer to this paradox, solving a long time mystery. Apparently the Mongols had to abandon their Europe campaign for climatic reasons.
In 1227, Gengis Khan, the man who built an empire from literally nothing, died and his legacy was left to be carried by his son Ogodei Khan. Ogodei Khan, following his father’s footsteps, expanded the khanate to east and west; conquering China and raising offensive to Russia.Read More »
Despite the international ban on cluster bombs, more than 150 financial institutions have invested $28 billion in companies that produce them, according to a new report released Thursday.
Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo are among the 158 banks, pension funds, and other firms listed in the “Hall of Shame” compiled by the Netherlands-based organization PAX, a member of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC).
In the latest chapter of a decades-long battle over oil-rich shale in Utah, this week over a dozen conservation groups submitted public comments urging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to reject an Estonian oil giant’s attempts to sidestep environmental review and start the first commercial oil shale project in the United States.
Utah residents have opposed oil shale mining since at least the 1960s, and now an Estonian oil shale giant called Enefit “seeks to strip-mine 9,000 acres for oil shale near the Green and White rivers, and ultimately expand its operations to process up to 1.2 billion barrels of kerogen oil,” as the Center for Biological Diversity wrote in a statement.
Despite the abundance of scientific studies documenting the rapid and dangerous decline of pollinator populations, state and federal lawmakers have yet to pass any meaningful protections for bees.
The reason, according to the findings of a new investigation, is that pesticide giants such as Bayer, Monsanto, and Syngenta have deployed an aggressive lobbying campaign to dilute and suppress attempts to regulate their multi-billion dollar industry—with great success.
“Oil didn’t wreck Venezuela’s economy, socialism did.” That’s what Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, of the Washington-based conservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote earlier this year in his reflection on Venezuela’s deepening economic crisis. Gobry, a prolific writer for Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and other publications, went on to criticize Venezuelan analysts who scapegoat petroleum, even though he recognized that declining oil prices have aggravated the nation’s difficulties. “The culprit is clear and obvious,” Golbry contends. “The problem is Venezuela’s authoritarian socialism.” Read More »
AS agreements are made to be fulfilled and not to be shelved, today one of the decisions of the recent 7th Party Congress – which was outlined on the very first day in the Central Report – is already being put into practice: “In order to enrich and perfect these documents we propose that both, that is to say, the conceptualization and fundamentals of the National Development Plan, after being reviewed by the Congress, be submitted to a process of democratic discussions by members of the Party and Young Communist League, representatives of mass organizations and broad sectors of Cuban society.”
That day, the Party First Secretary, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, also added: “Thus we request that the Congress grant the Central Committee the authority to make any necessary modifications that may result from the consultation process, including relevant adjustments to guidelines that might be approved during this event, as well as final approval of the documents.”Read More »
BRASILIA.—Eduardo Cunha, the suspended house speaker of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, threatened this Wednesday, June 15, to implicate 150 deputies, a minister and a senator close to the interim head of state of this nation, Michel Temer, if he is prosecuted on corruption charges.
The politician, accused of lying about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, has denied any wrongdoing and warned the interim President that should he be convicted, he will not go down alone.Read More »
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