Friends of the Earth, U.S. has released a new video, “Peril in the Pacific: Trans Pacific trade agreement threatens people and the planet.” The video highlights the threats to the environment and human rights posed by the secret negotiation of the TPP deal and in particular its draft investment chapter.

They can move together in swarms, build towers, dance, throw and catch, assess targets and soon will even make their own decisions. Both in war and at home, drones are developing fast and gaining control. The screens at a US air force base lock onto a civilian car driving along a road in New Mexico. “We [...]

A new political movement of young, second generation Israeli settlers are striving for new relations with their Palestinian neighbours. They are not only in favour of a Palestinian State; they even want to live in it. Some settlers do not see themselves as an obstacle for peace. On the contrary – they see their presence as [...]

A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James Coffman, [...]

El documental “Five broken cameras“, co-dirigido por el palestino Emad Burnat y el israelí Guy Davidi, está nominado al Oscar en la categoría documentales. Al nacer su cuarto hijo, Emad, un agricultor palestino compra su primera cámara de vídeo. Poco a poco y en paralelo al crecimiento de su hijo empieza a grabar los actos de resistencia [...]

A siete meses del enfrentamiento acontecido en Curuguaty el 15 de junio de 2012 y en donde perdieron la vida 17 personas, las investigaciones fiscales son aún poco claras. Once campesinos y seis efectivos policiales murieron en la zona de Marina Kue. Uno de los testigos principales fue asesinado por sicarios días después. Catorce campesinos están acusados [...]

El espejismo de la minería es un recorrido que comienza con la intervención de la compañía norteamericana Chocó Pacífico que extrajo 38 toneladas de platino y 50 toneladas de oro, sin que ello se tradujera en mejoras ambientales y sociales para la población. Siguiendo esta tradición de saqueo, los gobiernos de Uribe y Santos han [...]

An ongoing source of controversy in America, gun laws are increasingly polarizing the Southern states and Washington. In Arizona, Tea Party supporting, heavily armed, vigilante groups are taking over. “The one thing we know about gun control is that it has never provided security”, argues former Arizona sheriff and local hero, Richard Mack. Despite the recent massacres, [...]

Es el recorrido de un pueblo creado como semilla por Sibö que resistió la conquista española; sus pasos prueban que sus relatos no son mitos, sino historia viva de lucha que invita a conocer sus palabras, sus vidas. 4 indígenas bribri-cabécares se sientan a conversar sobre la resistencia en Talamanca: resistir el robo de tierras, [...]

The watchwords of the French Revolution were liberty, equality and fraternity. Maximilien Robespierre believed in them passionately. He was an idealist and a lover of humanity. But during the 365 days that Robespierre sat on the Committee of Public Safety, the French Republic descended into a bloodbath. ‘The Terror’ only came to end when Robespierre was [...]