Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expressed satisfaction that Fidel Castro predicts he will win the October 7th elections in the South American country.

School is out in Chicago for a second day, as public school teachers continue their first strike in 25 years. Almost 30,000 teachers and their support staff have walked out over reforms sought by the city’s powerful mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who is President Obama’s former chief of staff.

As Occupy Wall Street prepares to mark its first anniversary, members of Occupy Austin have discovered that their arrests on felony charges after a protest last December are directly linked to equipment provided by a police detective who infiltrated their group.

Palestinians protest the sharp increase of the cost of living putting the Palestinian government in a political crises, meanwhile Israeli military abducts a number of Palestinians in the West Bank, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.

As President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination to seek four more years in the White House, we host a debate on his presidency with Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report and Michael Eric Dyson, professor at Georgetown University and author of numerous books.

Controversy erupted at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday when party leaders forced through a platform change to reinstate references to God and the view that Jerusalem is Israel’s undivided capital.