…human rights experts on Oct. 25 condemned the US policy of mass expulsions of Haitian migrants and refugees, warning that collective expulsions violate international law. Thousands of Haitian refugees have…
Ten years ago this week, the Syrian Revolution began with peaceful pro-democracy protests. The first demonstrations broke out in the city of Deraa after local schoolchildren painted a mural depicting…
CounterVortex Idlib hospitals overwhelmed Regime shelling killed a dozen people, inlcuding four children, in Syria’s northwest Idlib province Oct. 20. Idlib is the final stronghold for rebels still fighting the…
…on July 7, 2021. An apparent plot to kidnap the president resulted in his death. Palacios evaded arrest in Haiti and traveled to Jamaica, from where he was deported. US…
…the embargo. (CiberCuba) Ávila also garnered controversy last year for his provocative pro-Trump rallies in the Miami area. (El Nuevo Herald, July 28, 2020) Photo: Marcos Evora via Havana Times…
The violence and looting that left at least 117 people dead in South Africa may have diminished after thousands of troops were deployed onto the streets of the main hotspot…
…appreciate our work, please become Number 26! Photo of Ahwazi protesters in Iran: Ahwazna Erratum: This podcast was, of course, recorded on July 23, 2021—not (as erroneously stated) Feb. 23….
A suicide bomb killed at least 30 in Baghdad on July 19, exploding in a busy market as people prepared for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The so-called Islamic…
Children in Raqqa, northeast Syria, are still living among ruins, with limited water, electricity, and access to education, four years after the city was taken from ISIS, according to a…
Aid groups working in besieged northern Syria are expressing outrage after a hospital in the town of al-Atareb was destroyed by artillery fire March 21. Six people were killed in…
In Episode 64 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg notes the maddening and telling irony that while we’re all supposed to be ga-ga with triumphalism over NASA’s latest Mars probe,…
…on March 2. The following day, nurses, doctors, patients and their families demonstrated outside the main hospital in the capital Asunción to protest the lack of vaccines, protective equipment and…
