Five large non-Western economies are planning a new development bank, but activists say the bank's impact will depend on the ability of the countries' populations to mobilize.
Local campesinos are blockading hundreds of oil and gas wells in Mexico's Tabasco state to demand indemnification for lands impacted by a massive spill and explosion.
As Syrians put their lives on the line to oppose a genocidal regime, Bob Dreyfuss in The Nation calls on the US to back Bashar Assad to beat back ISIS.
Iraq's contested northern city of Kirkuk was taken by Kurdish forces after being abandoned by the army—while the ISIS offensive is halted just 75 miles outside Baghdad.
Colombian crude production sank to a 20-month low of 935,000 barrels per day as guerilla attacks and protests by impacted indigenous communities curbed output.
Activists across Latin America participated in international protests against Monsanto and Chevron—but some "pink tide" governments continue to cozy up to Chevron.
"Anti-war" voices in the West have called for International Criminal Court action in Syria as a substitute for military intervention. Will they protest now that Moscow has blocked it?
Ecuador's National Electoral Council turned down a petition for a referendum on plans to open Yasuni National Park to further oil exploration—as activists protest "fraud."
While claiming to withdraw troops from Ukriane's borders, Russia conducted military maneuvers that included nuclear missile tests—as NATO sends a special delegation to Kiev.
In Ukraine's eastern region of Transcarpathia, ethnic Hungarians and Ruthenians are agitating for autonomy, with the encouragement of Moscow and Budapest.
China is proposing a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) in a race with the US-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region.
The UN Mission in South Sudan charged that rebels engaged in ethnically targeted killings during a raid on the northern city of Bentiu in a drive to seize local oil fields.
