We are joined by a woman who uncovered that her ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Katrina Browne documented her roots in the film, “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North,” which revealed how her family, based in Rhode Island, was once the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history.
Read MoreFor the twenty-second consecutive year, the UN General Assembly urged the United States today to lift its more than half century embargo against Cuba. However, the resolution has no mechanism for enforcement or sanctions on the United States if it ignores the call. The vote rejecting the embargo was approved by 188 votes in favor and only two against – United States and Israel, and with the abstention of Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands.
Read MoreUN Security Council sanctions committee experts were in Havana last week to meet with senior government officials. It is expected that the report on the case of the controversial cargo of 240 tons of Cuban military equipment will be issued in the coming days and sent to the Security Council to assess possible sanctions against Cuba.
Read MoreAs new revelations of National Security Agency spying stoke the ire of Germany, France and Spain, thousands of people marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday in a rally against government surveillance. Organizers say the protest was the largest to date against NSA monitoring since Edward Snowden’s disclosures became public in June.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 19th to the 25th, 2013. While the Israeli government announced this week its intention to release a number of Palestinian political detainees, army and settlers attacks left two Palestinians dead.
Read MoreIn a Democracy Now! exclusive, the only freed member of the Cuban Five, René González, speaks out after a 13-year imprisonment in the United States. The five Cuban intelligence agents were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of espionage. We include the interview with former parliament chair Ricardo Alarcon.
Read MoreBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff publicly apologized today to Cuban doctor Juan Delgado, who received insults upon his arrival in the country to work as part of a contingent of Cuban physicians hired to work in areas where health services are precarious.
Read MoreThe Palestinian Authority voiced concerns over escalating rates of construction in West Bank Israeli settlements, meanwhile settlers attacks this week leave five Palestinians injured.
Read MoreAl Jazeera’s Anjali Kamat discusses her recent investigation into the state of Bangladeshi sweatshops following the November 2012 fire at the Tazreen factory that killed at least 112 people. Al Jazeera uncovered factories where Old Navy pants are being worked on by children as young as 12.
Read MoreBefore the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Cuba has once again called on nations to work towards general and complete disarmament, including the banning of nuclear arsenals. Though we must continue to ask for this at all international forums, this goal is, in my opinion, nothing short of an unattainable dream.
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