Mexico

Mexicans mobilize against Trump border wall

Andres Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's left-populist presidential front-runner, has filed a complaint with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission against Trump's proposed wall.

North America

Trump-Putin breach: real or charade?

Is Trump's breach with Putin real, or is all the sudden sabre-rattling part of an elaborate charade to throw Congress off the scent of ongoing Trump-Putin collusion?

Syria

Hawks fear anarchist haven in Syria

The ultra-hawkish Henry Jackson Society warnsĀ that the US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria are allied with anarchists and elements of the Turkish and European armed left.

The Andes

Venezuelan oil goad in US-Russia game

Amid growing crisis in Venezuela, it emerges that the country's state oil company, heavily indebted to Russian giant Rosneft, made a big donation to Trump's inauguration festivities.

New York City
countervortex

NYC: protest Gilad Atzmon at Theatre 80

Professional Jew-haterĀ Gilad Atzmon will be appearing at Theatre 80, a venerated neighborhood institution in the East Villageā€”with New York antifas preparing to protest.

Greater Middle East

Advance for autocracy in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's referendum granting himself sweeping powers took place in an atmosphere of terror, with opposition leaders silenced and detained.

The Caucasus
helsinki

Chechnya: concentration camps for gays?

Alarming reports are emerging that Chechyna has opened “the first concentration camp for homosexuals since Hitler,” following a “gay purge” in the southern Russian republic. (Photo: Human Rights Campaign via Twitter)

Syria

Syria: gas attacks, air-strikes and hypocrisy

Trump, whose own air-strikes have killed hundreds, decides he must bomb an Assad air-base to retaliate for a gas attackā€”while the “anti-war” left is undisturbed by the gas attack.