World

U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting pays foreign journalists to defame Cuba

May 8, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The U.S. OCB paid almost $700,000 to journalists and other opinion molders in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America in return for their dissemination of anti-Cuban propaganda.

Ruling party ousted in Panama elections

May 5, 2014 By Emile Schepers

On Sunday, voters in Panama upset the predictions of pollsters by electing dissident Vice President Juan Carlos Varela, of the Panameñista Party, as their new president.

U.S. says Cuba still a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”

May 5, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Beginning in 1982 the list has included Cuba as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism." Others this year are Iran, Sudan, and Syria.

Partial victory won in preventing voter suppression in Canada

May 1, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

The Conservative party government of Stephen Harper has agreed to modify legislation that critics charge is designed to help the Conservatives steal the 2015 elections.

Venezuelan opposition attacks Cuban health workers

April 29, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuban doctors contribute to the long term construction of systems of public health throughout the global South, health systems that were abandoned or disregarded during decades of neo-liberalism.