A national strike for a living wage and the right to unionize in the fast-food and retail sectors has spread across seven cities. Hundreds of workers walked off the job Thursday in Milwaukee, and before that in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Detroit, Flint and New York City.
Read MoreNational Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given one year temporary political asylum in Russia. Snowden has reportedly already left the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for over a month.
Read MoreThe sentencing hearing for Army whistleblower Bradley Manning begins today following his acquittal on the most serious charge he faced, aiding the enemy, but conviction on 20 other counts. On Tuesday, Manning was found guilty of violating the Espionage Act and other charges for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents to WikiLeaks.
Read MoreFollowing a meeting held in Guayaquil, participants to the 12th Presidential Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA) have advanced a proposal to create a common trade area aimed at “a form of joint development that will protect the social rights of peoples.”
Read MoreBradley Manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy. He has been found guilty of five theft charges.
Read MoreClosing arguments have wrapped in the nearly two-month military trial of Army Private Bradley Manning. The presiding judge, Col. Denise Lind, is now deliberating on 21 charges, including “aiding the enemy.” Manning faces up to life in prison for leaking more than 700,000 documents to WikiLeaks.
Read MoreProminent Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been released from prison after being held for three years on terrorism-related charges. Shaye helped expose the US cruise missile attack on the Yemeni village of al-Majalah that killed 41 people, including 14 women and 21 children in December 2009.
Read MoreThe National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given permission to leave the Moscow airport where he has been stranded for over a month.
Read MoreFour years ago HT writer Daisy Valera told us (http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=6438) how she got into hot water by trying to show a screenplay of US author Howard Zinn’s “Marx in the Soho”, as a material for discussion at her university. Now we see how a former Indiana governor is in line with the supposedly communist Cubans in trying to ban Zinn.
Read MoreWe won’t know anything new about the North Korean vessel caught with a shipment of Cuban sugar and armaments until the inspectors sent to Panama issue their report. In the meantime, however, we can ask and try to answer a number of questions, in order to divest the incident of all sensationalism and get a bit closer to the truth.
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