Is it a good idea to have nuclear weapons stored in Turkey at this point?
Thousands of Turkish troops, citizens and police ‘surrounded’ the Incirlik air base it operates with the United States Saturday night — blocking all entrances to the air base with heavy vehicles and security forces sent to secure its perimeter. Turkish authorities restored access to and from the key US air base early Sunday, local media
Over 5,000 Germans formed a 5.5-mile human chain to surround the base.
Demonstrators have formed a human chain near a US air base in western Germany to protest against lethal drone strikes. The demonstration was organized by the alliance "Stop Ramstein - No Drone War", which says the Ramstein base relays information between operators in the US and unmanned drone aircraft on missions over Iraq, Afghanistan,
Docs reveal trade deal negotiations have gone ‘very far from legitimate trade concerns into the territory of a sweeping deregulatory political agenda.’
WikiLeaks on Wednesday released a trove of documents detailing previously unknown pro-corporate provisions and updates to the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), exposing the extent to which the U.S.-driven deal will force signatory nations to privatize public services and deregulate corporations. As the 52 nations involved in TISA comprise a
Protesters are demanding PM David Cameron’s resignation over offshore investments revealed in the ‘Panama Papers’.
A protest calling on David Cameron to resign has brought more than 150,000 people onto the streets of London on Saturday afternoon. The March for Health, Homes, Jobs and Education was organized by activist group thePeople's Assembly Against Austerity. The demonstrators called for an end to austerity, and demanded that David Cameron quit over the
Non-profits representing teachers, farmers, artists, environmentalists, and others oppose Monsanto’s efforts to bring GMO crops to Nigeria.
Monsanto is poised to begin planting genetically modified varieties of corn and cotton in Nigeria, provoking the outrage of millions. In response to the biotech behemoth's application for the release and marketing of the GMO crops in the West African nation, 100 non-profits representing over 5 million Nigerians on Monday presented the government
Three years after Voting Rights Act was gutted, U.S. is witnessing ‘a renaissance of voter disenfranchisement’.
Following widespread disenfranchisement during Tuesday's Democratic primary in Arizona, civil rights activists are warning that such debacles could be a harbinger of things to come during the general election in November. "As we've seen in the Arizona and North Carolina primaries, the Shelby decision has ushered in a renaissance of voter
Two new lawsuits say Shell is liable for oil spills that have destroyed livelihoods, contaminated water supplies, and rendered some wetlands ‘lifeless’ in the fragile ecosystem
Royal Dutch Shell must pay for the lives and livelihoods destroyed by the decades-long deluge of oil spilled from its pipelines in the Niger Delta, two lawsuits filed in London on Tuesday charged. "Shell has an appalling record of obfuscation and misinformation with regard to its dealings in the Niger Delta," said Peter Frankental, director of