North America

Police try to block annual SOA vigil

Just when the child migrant "crisis" is drawing attention to abuses by US-trained Latin American military officers, local police are trying to close down the annual SOA protest.

North America

HRW: FBI stings pushed people to terrorism

Human Rights Watch finds that the FBI may have "created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals" through the use of infiltrators "encouraging the target to act."

North America

IRS targets Cuba solidarity group

The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which has sponsored aid shipments to Cuba for two decades is threatened with losing its tax-exempt status.

North America

Lakota stand up to neo-Nazis

Hundreds of Lakota, Anishinabe and white activists converged on Leith, North Dakota, to rally against neo-Nazis who plan to turn the village into a white separatist homeland.

North America

Glenn Greenwald full of beans on Boston

Glenn Greenwald called out the New York Times for putting the word "terrorism" in "scare quotes" after a Damascus blast—but does exactly that regarding the Boston blasts!