SOUTH SUDAN, HOME OF THE LOST BOYS, AGAIN IN CHAOS
Jan 7 (GIN) – South Sudan may be barely on the radar screen for most Americans but a bitter split in the ruling coalition threatens to make it one of the worst humanitarian disasters in Africa.

By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) — Haiti’s prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, said on Monday that the citizenship issue caused by a constitutional court ruling in the Dominican Republic…
By Richard Eskow
“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity,” said Nelson Mandela, “it is an act of justice.”
When the War on Poverty began a half-century ago, it was widely seen as the moral obligation of a wealthy nation.
By Robert Reich One of the worst epithets that can be leveled at a politician these days is to call him a “redistributionist.” Yet 2013 marked one of the biggest…

Tens of thousands of asylum seekers launched a three-day strike, demos outside embassies, and the largest refugee protest in the country’s history –
By Chris Hedges
This is our last gasp as a democracy. The state’s wholesale intrusion into our lives and obliteration of privacy are now facts. And the challenge to us—one of the final ones, I suspect—is to rise up in outrage and halt this seizure of our rights to liberty and free expression. If we do not do so we will see ourselves become a nation of captives.
In our last article, “Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer than You May Realize [3],” we defined where today’s social-political movement is within the eight stages of successful movements [4].

Praise the Lord! It looks as though Democrats are starting to act like populists as we go into 2014. A few weeks ago, President Obama declared economic inequality has become the “defining challenge of our time.”

The fresh page of a new year—what a thrilling place to be. And to kick off 2014, Colorlines asked several community leaders to share their racial justice wishes for the year.

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — Haiti’s ambassador to Havana Jean Victor Généus said that Cuba, as pro-tempore chair of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
Fellow Vincentians and Friends of St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
A Happy New Year to All! Please accept best wishes from the Embassy of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for a blessed 2014. Ten days after the Christmas disaster in SVG, our relief efforts remain constant.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Friday January 3, 2014, CMC – Prime Minister D. Ralph Gonslaves says the Christmas Eve extreme weather event has created two St. Vincent and the Grenadines.