Security forces in Algeria put down weekly pro-democracy protests in the capital and cities across the country May 21, detaining hundreds of would-be demonstrators. “March prevented and suppressed in Algiers…
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,…
Let’s start by stating the obvious. Under long-ruling dictator Alexander Lukashenko, a fascistic order has long obtained in Belarus—and it may now be going over the edge into outright fascism….
For the second year running, authorities in Hong Kong banned the annual June 4 vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Citing the ongoing restrictions imposed to contain COVID-19, hundreds…
…youths who were released from HHS custody to go work on an egg farm in Ohio, evidently against their will. (AP, Feb. 26; WaPo, Feb. 23) Photo via Border Report…
…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…
…suspended following the revocation of its US presidential permit on Jan. 20. The company said in a statement that it will “continue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups…
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…
…has been charged with catch-all “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Chen was arrested in Beijing on Feb. 25 and charged one month later after a campaign of pressure by his…
Two protesters were killed and several injured Jan. 10 in Iraq, as security forces attempted to put down a third consecutive day of angry demonstrations in the southern city of…
Ecuador is heading to a run-off presidential race in April after leftist candidate Andrés Arauz of the Union of Hope (UNES) coalition won a first-round victory Feb. 7, following years…
