Yes, Chicken Little…..
This time, the sky really is falling Shutdown 2013 is really not a budget negotiation. IT IS NOT. You do not pass and repeal laws in the United States of America through budget negotiations. Then what...
View ArticleEuropean Court Ordered Spain to Release Basque ETA Terrorist
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Spain to free a Basque separatist militant, Ines del Rio Prada, 55, saying her extended detention was illegal and instructed Madrid government...
View ArticleU.S. Hostage Freed by Colombia’s FARC Rebels (Video)
Kevin Scott Sutay, a veteran of the USA war in Afghanistan who wandered in to territory of the Colombian rebels while backpacking in the region, was taken hostage by the rebel group FARC four months...
View ArticleSpain’s Lost Generation on Hunger Strike (Video)
Under his hoodie, 25 year-old engineer Jorge Arzuaga looks like any young man who is ready to go to a soccer match in Madrid, Spain. Against the backdrop of Puerta del Sol Square, bustling with tourist...
View ArticleWhere is Nadezhda Tolokonnikova?
Tolokonnikova, 23, a member of the Russian feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot, who was jailed since March, 2012, after the “Punk Prayer” incident in Moscow, has vanished from sight during her...
View ArticleNight Witches Who Terrified Nazis
The Nazis called them the ‘Nachthexen’, the ‘Night Witches’. They were the volunteer Soviet women pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an exclusive female regiment of the Soviet Air Force in...
View ArticleBombshell Claim by Hersh: Erdogan and Turkish Government Carried Out the...
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh opens a can of worms for already embattled Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In his last report, published by the London Review of Books magazine,...
View ArticleKidnapped School Girls in Nigeria Forced to Marry Extremists
Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a secondary school in Nigeria by Boko Haram militants, are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported...
View ArticleWho are ISIS? What do They Want? Who is Behind Them?
On June 11th, the world woke up to the news of ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant* -alternatively translated as Islamic State in Iraq and Syria-) taking over major cities in Iraq and...
View Article“We were Trained by NATO and M16 in Turkey” says Syrian Rebel to BBC (Video)
BBC interview of the Canadian resident Thwaiba Kanafani from August, 2012. FSA is the Free Syrian Army. Adana is a city in southern Turkey. Riad Mousa Al-Asaad was the commander of the Free Syrian...
View ArticleIs the US Legally Obligated to Accept Refugee Children?
Tens of thousands of Central American children, mainly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have been fleeing from increasing violence in their own countries. Women are being raped and murdered in...
View ArticleMonday News Recap on ISIS by the Progressive Press (10/27/14)
Iraq soldiers retake Jurf al-Sakhar, town held by ISIS (10/26/14) “Iraqi soldiers backed by Shia militiamen retook control Sunday of a Sunni town seized previously by Islamic militants, said an Iraqi...
View ArticleFukushima Daiichi Weekly Report from the Progressive Press (11/02/2014)
Video: “Purple cloud” seen by engineer after Fukushima explosion… The Sue family used to call Odaka, a town near the Fukushima plant, home. Like other towns, Odaka has been reopened to its residents –...
View ArticleFukushima Daiichi Weekly Report from the Progressive Press (11/09/2014)
Approx. 100 tons of sardines washed ashore in Pacific coastal area of Hokkaido again – Photos (11/07/2014) “National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency comments cold sea...
View ArticleFukushima Daiichi Weekly Report from the Progressive Press (11/16/2014)
Featured video was published on Oct 13, 2014 Unbeknownst to most consumers of US corporate media, radiation in the ocean from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has finally reached the United States’...
View ArticleFukushima Daiichi Weekly Report from the Progressive Press (11/23/2014)
Featured video (06/11/2014) “The Fukushima Daicchi nuclear reactor has emitted airborne radioactive cesium levels that exceed the Hiroshima Atomic bomb by 168 times. ” Hiroshi Kawauchi, former Japanese...
View Article14 Year Old Child Bride Facing Death Penalty for Murdering Husband
14-year- old Wasilat Tasi’u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year-old husband. Nigerian teen was married to a man that she didn’t love. According to Zubeida Nagee, a women’s rights activist in...
View ArticleSyriza and Podemos: From austerity to equality. Will they make it?
What really happened in Greece and Spain? Will Syriza and Podemos be able to bring economic and social stability to their countries? Listen to our editor Emine’s interview with Progressive News Network...
View ArticleAnother ‘Cold War’ with Russia? Ukraine Question
How did the United States get into another Cold War with Russia? The Nation Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and American scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University and New...
View ArticleYemen is Falling Apart: Details (Video)
The poorest country in the Middle East is fast becoming the newest and hottest disaster in the region. There are many dimensions to the chaos in Yemen; sectarian, political, geographic. The Yemeni...
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