Huntsville, Texas Within eight days in February, Texas executed two men, one innocent and the other disabled with serious mental illnesses, which brings Texas’s total state killings to 593 since the Supreme Court of the U.S. allowed executions to resume in 1976. Demonstration against the execution of Richard Tabler, Huntsville, Texas, Feb. 13, 2025. WW…
The author is a Venezuelan soldier and diplomat who discusses the U.S. government’s use of the “war on drugs” as a pretext for intervention and exposes inconsistencies in Washington’s propaganda. Translation: John Catalinotto U.S. Capitol, 2012. Protest targets U.S. ‘war on drugs’ as poison to Mexico. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum made this statement — “Start…
The United States continues to use the American taxpayers’ expense account to prioritize Israel’s aspirations. Close on the heels of the so-called Abraham Accords earlier this month, which normalized relations between Israel and the Arab states of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Trump administration is formulating plans to essentially purchase another Arab-Israeli…
U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo and unelected advisor to President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, are embarking on a tour of the Middle East beginning with a stop in Israel to discuss “regional security issues related to Iran’s malicious influence” with Prime Minister Netanyahu, followed by visits to Sudan, Bahrain and now official U.S. partner, the…
ADEN, YEMEN — As the war in Yemen nears its sixth year, the situation in the war-torn nation is escalating as Israel enters the fray, throwing its support behind the Emirati-backed separatist militant group, the Southern Transitional Council (STC). The STC has already effectively captured Aden and more recently seized Socotra Island. Israel’s entrance into the…
SOCOTRA, YEMEN — A.S. al-Socotri remembers fondly the strange beauty of the quiet island of Socotra with its amazing dreamlike vegetation, with no boats in the sea, no lights, no planes in the sky. “Now,” al-Socotri, a resident of the island, tells MintPress, “a never-before-seen military build-up has changed the reality on this quiet Island.”…
The Sudanese democracy demonstrators were the first to protest at Saudi Arabia’s interference in their revolution. We all knew that the Saudis and the Emiratis had been funnelling millions of dollars into the regime of Omar al-Bashir, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court and now chucked out of power by a Sisi-like…
TRIPOLI, LIBYA — Libyan strongman and former CIA asset Khalifa Haftar’s blitzkrieg on the capital, Tripoli, has stalled for now as forces loyal to the internationally-recognized government have hamstrung his offensive in the suburbs. But the consequences of the operation are already unfolding, as Haftar’s international backers are being revealed and hardcore jihadists gain a…
ADEN, YEMEN — Ali Abdullah al-Bujairi — a Yemeni politician who served as a senior member on the failed UN-brokered transitional government and as Yemen’s ambassador to Iraq under former president Ali Abdullah Saleh — is accusing the United Arab Emirates of facilitating a transfer of ISIS officials into Yemen. “The UAE has recently transferred…
The United States’ role in the devastating war on Yemen has been more involved than previously reported, marking the second time in recent months that the U.S. military has been caught red-handed doing things that they had long claimed they weren’t. Newly released documents show that the U.S. has been training airmen from the United…
AL-MAHRAH, YEMEN — Three protesters were killed on November 14 when a Saudi armored vehicle raided a peaceful sit-in and fired live ammunition into crowds of demonstrators in the Tunnel District of Yemen’s eastern al-Mahrah province. The demonstrators were protesting the construction of a new Saudi military base near the Nashton seaport in Yemen’s al-Anfaq…
At first glance, it may seem like a positive move. The Trump administration and London are both putting pressure on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to implement a ceasefire in Yemen’s atrocious war. Washington and London are also calling for warring sides to enter into peace negotiations within a month. What’s wrong with that, you…
SANAA,YEMEN– “Before the war started, my family used to drink traditional Yemeni coffee on the rooftop of our home next to the University of Hodeida. During those long winter days years ago, my friend and I would go to the beach to play while the adults sat around and conversed, chewing gat leaves. When the…
YEMEN — Hundreds of thousands of Yemen`s people took the streets of big cities on Friday to demonstrate against the U.S.-backed and Saudi-led coalition in the wake of the spread of famine throughout the country. They accuse the coalition of causing that famine. To the country’s north, thousands of residents of four provinces — including…
Huntsville, Texas Within eight days in February, Texas executed two men, one innocent and the other disabled with serious mental illnesses, which brings Texas’s total state killings to 593 since the Supreme Court of the U.S. allowed executions to resume in 1976. Demonstration against the execution of Richard Tabler, Huntsville, Texas, Feb. 13, 2025. WW…
The author is a Venezuelan soldier and diplomat who discusses the U.S. government’s use of the “war on drugs” as a pretext for intervention and exposes inconsistencies in Washington’s propaganda. Translation: John Catalinotto U.S. Capitol, 2012. Protest targets U.S. ‘war on drugs’ as poison to Mexico. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum made this statement — “Start…
Home » Global » Europe » Belgian workers march against government’s austerity plans A tidal wave of demonstrations across Belgium on Feb. 13 brought out a multitude of people to protest the government’s planned austerity policies, which would be draconian for the multinational working class. Demonstration of 100,000 in Brussels on Feb. 13, 2025, opposing…
The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into crisis, thereby exposing a worldwide network of thousands of journalists, all working to promote U.S. interests in their home countries. In late January, President Trump—along with help from the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk—began…