Monthly Archive: December 2016
Israel holds plans for new settlements until after Trump inauguration Artists’ colony in India resists forced eviction, demolition of their homes Immigrants organize and explore options in final weeks of Obama administration Black Obituary...
The fallout after the U.S. refused to veto an otherwise unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements escalated this week. In a strong rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Secretary of State John...
All photos by Bismillah Geelani. Hear/read his accompanying radio report. See the Puppeteers’ Colony as it was prior to the start of demolition. Click on any image to launch slideshow.
A neighborhood in the Indian capital of New Delhi thought to be the world’s largest community of traditional artists and street performers is being forcibly emptied out. For years the residents of Kathputli – or Puppeteers’...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has put its support behind legislation that would provide a legal option for recipients of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) to remain in the country. Senators Lindsay...
Israel dialed back diplomatic ties to 10 countries Tuesday whose governments supported a United Nations resolution condemning settlements in Palestinian territory. The 15-member Security Council vote was nearly unanimous: 14 nations in support, one...
In the United States, Black males are nearly three times as likely to be killed in encounters with the police than their white counterparts. That’s according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the American...
An independent Kurdistan may very well become a reality in the new year. Authorities in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq have confirmed their intention to hold a referendum on independence from Iraq after...
Friends, we’re in the last week of 2016 and that means we’re also in the final days of our year-end fund drive. The money we raise in the next seven days will determine our...
President Obama takes pre-emptive policy actions ahead of exit Obama bans offshore drilling in large portions of Arctic and Atlantic oceans First Nations communities take Canadian government to Supreme Court over fossil fuel projects...