Newsitem List
3 of 470
The Shortwave Report 10/14/16 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2016 3:42pm PDT
Karrada Anti-Terror Call in Iraqi Film
After the repeated bomb attacks against Iraqi civilians in Karrada, Baghdad, the Iraqi community of Canada is using the art of film, to issue a global warning against terrorism....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 4:11am PDT
The Shortwave Report 07/08/16 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK World Radio Japan, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 4:53pm PDT
Class War 03/2016: IRAQ 1991 – Class war and bourgeois containment
It was a quarter of a century ago, on March 7th, 1991, when the proletarian uprising in Iraq against war showed to the world proletariat the only way forward to eliminate wars forever. As always, on the other side of the social barricade, all the global forces of Capital acted as one body to liquidate the autonomy of our class....
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2016 8:49am PDT
‘I Escaped Isis Rapists, But Was Forced To Leave My Baby Behind’
An estimated 5,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Isis fighters, with many bought and sold into sexual slavery in markets....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2016 2:07am PDT
Iraq risks losing generation due to lack of schools, healthcare
More than 2 million children in Iraq are out of school, up to 3 million more have had their education disrupted by the war, and nearly one in five schools have been damaged, destroyed or used for other purposes, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF says....
Posted: Sun, Jan 3, 2016 3:28am PST
Emotional funeral for drowned Iraqi family
Tragedy struck one Iraqi family, who forced to flee from war and ethnic cleansing in Iraq, found the journey to safety was their biggest killer....
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2015 1:32am PST
The Shortwave Report 11/27/15 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu, Nov 26, 2015 4:02pm PST
Unraveled the region completely
Islam has made great advances in the last 42 years. Muslims around the world have become much more powerful, more united in their faith, more radical and militant, and Muslim communities....
Posted: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 3:55pm PST
Peace could have been given
Assyria in Iraq, of course part of Syria today is part of that. Also Northern Iraq was a part of Assyria, and it was always fighting with its neighbours. First was Assyria, then Babylon, where did the Medes and Persians originate. Persia, they changed the name to Iran. I think it was only after World War 2 that they started to change the names of all these countries....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 2:12pm PST
Iraqi Minorities in Peril
The plight of Iraqi minorities was the subject of a deeply thoughtful and insightful debate at the US based Holocaust Memorial Museum....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 6:52am PST
Support is flooding in for an Assyrian church's reopening in Baghdad
Some good news emerged from inside of Baghdad this week, as the St George's Church re-opened its doors to Iraq's persecuted Christian community, after a decade from being attacked in the wake of the US/UK invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 10:19am PST
The Shortwave Report 10/02/15 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu, Oct 1, 2015 5:01pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 07/24/15 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, China Radio International, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 5:27pm PDT
Pandora’s box
The Obama administration is considering a plan to increase the U.S. presence in Iraq by sending up to 500 more military personnel and establishing a new military base in Anbar Province. The United States already has about 3,000 troops, including trainers and advisers, in Iraq. The new forces would help train Iraqi forces in retaking the city of Ramadi, which fell to the self-described Islamic State last month....
Posted: Wed, Jun 10, 2015 11:18am PDT
American firepower
The U.S. also imposes murderous sanctions upon Iraq, killing thousands of people every month and condemning most of the rest of the population to a miserable, disease-ridden, poverty-stricken. Although they profit, it possible for them to sell billions of dollars of weapons to the Saudis and the Kuwaitis, and station U.S. troops in the Mideast to “protect” them....
Posted: Fri, Apr 3, 2015 12:38pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 12/19/14 Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2014 5:04pm PST
Ongoing agony in Iraq
The hundreds of thousands of displaced families suffer from the heavy rain that falls every day....
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 4:56pm PST
Global Rally against ISIS – for Kobanê – for Humanity! NOV. 01, 2014
The so-called international coalition to fight the ISIS, have not helped Kurdish resistance effectively despite witnessing the ongoing genocide committed against Kobanê. They have not fulfilled their real international legal obligations. Some of the countries in the coalition, especially Turkey, are among financial and military supporters of the ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
Therefore a Global Rally against ISIS – for Kobanê – for Humanity is vital.
If the world wants democracy in the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 29, 2014 7:24am PDT
Turkey agrees to allow Peshmerga from Iraq into Kobane
Turkey to allow Kurdish PUK troops from Iraq to pass Turkey and enter Kobane. YPG is not asking for this support. Indeed, it may turn into an occupation of revolutionary Kobane after ISIL has been kicked out, since Iraqi Kurdish PUK is not as left-leaning and democratic as the YPG. Kurdish militias in Iraq are unfortunately not revolutionary, which is why they enjoy endless US and EU support. PUK: Kurdish Patriotic Union....
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2014 10:53am PDT