It now appears that R & B singer Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z had US Treasury Dept. permission to travel last week to Cuba, a country off bounds for most US citizens. A Reuters source said they had a license as a people-to-people cultural visit.
Read MoreIcelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir played a critical role in WikiLeaks’ release of the “Collateral Murder” video, which showed a U.S. military helicopter in July 2007 as it killed 12 people and wounded two children in Iraq. Jónsdóttir joins us on her first trip to the United States since a secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, began its investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
Read MoreOpposition candidate Henrique Capriles wrapped up the Caracas portion of his presidential campaign on Sunday with a massive rally in the Venezuelan capital. The candidate, who promises to end the preferential oil deal with Cuba, is hoping for an upset on April 14th.
Read MoreThe private visit of R & B singer Beyoncé and her rapper husband Jay-Z to Cuba last week continues to make headlines on Sunday as two US congress persons accuse them of possible violating the US travel ban on its citizens.
Read MoreA wave of protests in the West Bank met with excessive use of live ammunition which resulted in the death of two young Palestinians following the death of a Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli hospital.
Read MoreThe new documentary “Shadows of Liberty” had its U.S. premiere last night at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver. Using individual cases of journalists whose attempts to tell their stories have been muzzled by corporations and the government.
Read MoreAs North Korea threatens to launch a nuclear attack on the United States, the Obama administration is quietly expressing concern its own recent actions may have been too provocative and could inadvertently trigger a deeper crisis.
Read MoreWe present the news in brief from Democracy Now for Wednesday April, 3, 2013.
Read MoreIn what will be a “lightning fast” 10-day political struggle, the campaign for the April 14th Venezuelan elections began with lots of emotion but few concrete plans for addressing the country’s problems. The proselytizing began on Tuesday and will end on Thursday, April 11, in the shortest campaign in Venezuelan history.
Read MorePresident Obama outraged food activists last week when he signed into law a spending bill with a controversial rider that critics have dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act.” The rider says the government must allow the planting of genetically modified crops even if courts rule they pose health risks.
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