Venezuela

Your Thursday Poynter Report The Poynter Report is our daily media newsletter. To have it delivered to your inbox Monday-Friday, click here. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is finally out with a response over a controversy that has been hounding the paper for days. P-G executive editor Keith Burris wrote a lengthy story…

America loves a posse. Western movies are populated with lawmen deputizing regular Joes. There’s something stirring about citizens stepping up in times of need to serve and protect the community. But paramilitaries are also red flags. The posse has left the screen and entered America under this administration. Inspiring, coddling and…

There comes a time when shooting around in circles just hits walls, bullets splinter off sidewalks, and shatter a window here and there. But people are in safety. They watch from a distance and with self-assurance. Venezuela has received five tankers from Iran loaded with hydrocarbons – petrol gas, additives…

There comes a time when shooting around in circles just hits walls, bullets splinter off sidewalks, and shatter a window here and there. But people are in safety. They watch from a distance and with self-assurance. Venezuela has received five tankers from Iran loaded with hydrocarbons – petrol gas, additives…

When the restaurant where 30-year-old Santosh Kumar worked had to close because of the government-mandated coronavirus lockdown, he had no choice but to make his way back home to the eastern state of Jharkhand. The five-day journey back by bus, from his workplace in the city of Hyderabad, was excruciating.…

The protester who was pushed to the ground by Buffalo police Thursday night in front of City Hall, in a video seen by more than 58 million people, is a longtime peace activist from Amherst. Martin Gugino, 75, was in serious but stable condition at Erie County Medical Center as…

France has rejected allegations that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has been holed up inside the nation’s diplomatic mission in Caracas. Venezuelan authorities earlier labeled Guaido a “fugitive from justice.” “Juan Guaido is not at the French residence in Caracas. We have repeatedly confirmed this to the Venezuelan authorities,” French…

Companies operating in the region will have to contend with an unprecedented wave of political risk triggered by the pandemic, including civil unrest, political uncertainty, and governments eager to re-write the rules of the game. By Thomaz Favaro While few countries in the world can claim to have been well…

By José Niño China is often described as the next superpower to top America within the next few decades. At first glance, such an assertion makes sense. The country’s vast geography, natural resources, rich history, and tech-savvy populace puts it in a position to thrive in the 21st century. However,…

Philly police gas protesters en masse; DC Homeowner shelters dozens of activists from crackdown; Iran-Venezuela cooperation heralds new eraIn this episode of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Mecca Bullock, an organizer with the Liberation Center in Philadelphia, to talk about yesterday's brutal…