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U.S. blockade of Cuba puts children at risk

September 30, 2015 By Roberta Wood

Although Cuba's socialist society guarantees all Cubans free high quality health care, Cubans unnecessarily suffer due to the U.S. blockade that prevents medical equipment and supplies from reaching them.

The Pentagon and Hawaii, militarized state of armed occupation

September 28, 2015 By Ed Rampell

U.S. armed occupation of Hawaii threatens the lives and well-being of indigenous people and others for whom the islands are home.

Burkina Faso military coup a setback for West Africa

September 22, 2015 By Emile Schepers

General Diendéré, the coup leader and new strongman, is closely linked to the U.S. military mission in the area, as well as to the French military.

Refugees

September 3, 2015 By Luis Lazaro Tijerina

This poem is a response to the refugee/migrant crisis now engulfing Europe.

Today in history: 70 years since Vietnam independence proclaimed

September 2, 2015 By Special to People’s World

In 1945, after Japan's surrender in World War II, Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed independence of Vietnam from France and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.