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Back to homepageTURKEY: More Walls…Less Peace
Turkish President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced plans, at the end of May, to construct walls to the south and south-east with neighbours Iraq and Iran
Read MoreIRELAND: New Head Arrives – Same Old Reactionary Politics?
Ireland now inherits a new Taoiseach and the Fine Gael party a new head on boring-old-shoulders, existing Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar
Read MoreDonald Trump: “… the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord…”
Donald Trump is pulling the United States from the Paris climate agreement, the 2015 agreement designed to halt rapidly escalating and potentially catastrophic climate change
Read MoreIreland: New Head on the Way – Same Poison Afflicts the Body
Heir-to-the-crown to the far-right-of-Centre party Fine Gael and likely to win the upcoming party leadership contest, existing Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar got his foot in the door first by launching his campaign against the unemployed
Read MoreUnited States: Medicare-for-All takes on “Trumpcare”
For First Time Ever, Majority of House Dems Support ‘Medicare-for-All’ Bill
Read MorePAIN MANAGEMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT – BUT NOT FOR ALL
56 years ago, in 1961, an international treaty, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs “obligated countries to work towards universal access to the narcotic drugs necessary to alleviate pain and suffering
Read MoreABDULLAH ÖCALAN NOMINATED FOR SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE
Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been nominated for the Sydney Peace Prize
Read MoreON A DAY THIS WEEK IN MAY, 1975. Roque Dalton
The 10 May 1975, the Salvadoran poet and revolutionary-communist Roque Antonio Dalton García was shot dead in San Salvador after over two decades of revolutionary struggle
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