Thanks to a plea deal, Staff Sgt. Frank G. Wuterich will serve not time in the final court-martial resulting from a five-year investigation into the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha in 2005.
The Cuban government says Wilmar Villar Mendoza wasn’t a political prisoner and hadn’t been on a hunger strike before his death; the US calls him a “courageous defender of human rights.”
After years of impunity, former Guatemalan military dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-83) is to appear before a judge this month in what could become a trial for genocide.
Three unidentified men gunned down attorney José Ricardo Rosales in the coastal city of Tela just four days after a newspaper reported on Rosales’ claim that local police agents had abused detainees.
Distrust continues between popular Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and many of the grassroots and leftist organizations that helped bring him to office five years.
Buenos Aires subway workers protested a 127% increase in the fare by opening the turnstiles during rush hours for about a week and letting passengers ride for free.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama’s moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the oppressive apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
NewsOne website brings to light a YouTube video in which Ron Paul gives a “South was Right” speech to a gathering of Confederacy nostalgists—speaking against the backdrop of a giant Confederate battle flag!
The Zionist propaganda machine is having a field day with the latest call from Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Ahmad Hussein to “fight the Jews”—as Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman continues to call for “transfer.”
Prosecutors attempted to subpoena Ron Paul in connection with a 1981 scheme for a mercenary invasion of Dominica to establish a white separatist homeland—led by Paul’s supporter Don Black of the neo-Nazi Stormfornt.
At least 20,000 marched in Istanbul carrying signs reading “We are all Armenian” to mark five years since the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink—and to protest the lack of justice in his case.
Investigators found that 5,200 metric tons of gravel contaminated in the Fukushima nuclear disaster was shipped to over 200 companies, making its way into apartment buildings, schools, and temporary homes for evacuees.
