US authorities have engaged in the torture of detainees, and the nation's "highest officials" bear responsibility, according to a report by the bipartisan Constitution Project.
Barrick Gold’s Latin American mining expansion faces new obstacles in Chile, continuing opposition in Argentina and the Dominican Republic, and a big drop in the price of gold.
With a giant march for free higher education, the student protest movement is getting back much of the drive it had two years ago—and the politicians are paying attention.
The fight against US-style education “reforms” seems to be getting more militant as Guerrero teachers announce a coalition modeled on the one that shook up Oaxaca in 2006.
With promised jobs failing to materialize and scrutiny of labor abuses growing, Haiti’s sweatshop industry has decided to change personnel and hire a US lobbying firm.
The Internet conspiranoia crowd, led by the indefatigable Alex Jones, have jumped on the Boston attack in record time, even faster than they did with the Newtown massacre.
Military guards at Guantanámo Bay fired “non-lethal” rounds at hunger-striking detainees as a federal judge turned down a petition for emergency relief.
Al-Shabaab militants launched an assault on Somalia’s Supreme Court, resulting in at least 35 deaths—one of the worst attacks in years for the country’s capital of Mogadishu.
Afro-Colombians displaced from their lands by a “paramilitary-business alliance” have in recent years returned, building new communities known as “Humanitarian Zones,” which are now legally recognized as neutral zones where all armed actors, legal and illegal are prohibited from entering…. Read moreCurvarado Humanitarian Zone
As a lawsuit over the government’s failure to evacuate Fukushima prefecture’s children is on appeal, Japan’s government attempts to downplay reports of elevated thyroid abnormalities.
Campesino protesters at the site of the Conga mining project in Peru’s Cajamarca region stormed police lines, putting pipes and other equipment to the torch.
Ecuador’s trans-Andean pipeline burst, fouling small farms near the Pacific coast, while Peru declared a state of emergency in the Amazon’s Pastaza Basin over oil contamination.
