World

Chilean president Bachelet campaigns for ‘transformative role of women’

September 23, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg

"Women are able to do much more if they are equal and can be agents of social change," Michelle Bachelet said at the Wilson Institute in Washington Thursday.

U.S. project of regime change in Cuba is still on

September 22, 2016 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

U.S. intervention masked as "democracy promotion" violates any pretense of normal U.S.-Cuban relations.

Bayer-Monsanto merger can’t erase Nazi chemists’ past

September 22, 2016 By Victor Grossman

Our correspondent in Berlin explores Bayer's troubled past and its links with the Nazis' most notorious death camp - Auschwitz.

Colombian paramilitaries advance as peace plebiscite approaches

September 21, 2016 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Paramilitary violence threatens efforts to end Colombia's 52-year civil war. Time to demand the U.S. government no longer support them.

For 25th year, Cuba seeks UN resolution on blockade

September 20, 2016 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuba reports to the General Assembly so members can see the blockade through Cuban eyes. In 2015, 191 nations voted to end it; not the U.S. and Israel.