International – Page 192

Everyday South Africans celebrate Mandela’s life

December 9, 2013 By Mark Waller

The death of Nelson Mandela on December 5th at the age of 95 and after prolonged bouts of illness hardly came as a surprise to most South Africans.

Honduras’ Libre Party says election was stolen

December 5, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The TSE named right-wing National Party candidate Juan Hernandez as winner and a large Libre Party march through Tegucigalpa was protesting election fraud.

Pressure to release U.S. contractor shifts to the White House

December 5, 2013 By Emile Schepers

There may be a shift in the thinking of people who are working for the release of Alan Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor serving a 15-year jail sentence in Cuba.

Croatian fascists and the attack on Bob Dylan

December 5, 2013 By Norman Markowitz

There is an obvious desire to either celebrate or deny a barbarous past, to make sure that "the times they are not a-changin'."

Pandora and the drones

December 4, 2013 By Conn Hallinan

More than 70 countries in the world deploy drones, 16 of them the deadly variety, and many of those drones target rural people living on the margins of the modern world.