FERGUSON MISSOURI – Missouri authorities are drawing up contingency plans and seeking intelligence from U.S. police departments on out-of-state agitators, fearing that fresh riots could erupt if a grand jury does not indict a white officer for killing a black teen.
“The value put on black life by the occupation force in Ferguson and in our communities across the country is no different than the value put on the lives of the “natives” in Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S. occupation forces.”

A Liberian burial team puts on protective clothing before retrieving the body of an Ebola victim from his home near Monrovia Aug. 17, 2014.

Reading details of the Secret Service’s failure to protect the president, I was jolted by a sudden premonition.
Though he was a dictator, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is remembered best for rarely being in control.

The spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa is a global health emergency. Countries around the world must join together to mobilize the resources…

It was quite shocking to hear in the Government Oversight Committee hearings that the Secret Service was incapable of thwarting an intruder who had scaled the White House fence…
Like most people, Sergeant Matt Darisse believed driving with a broken tail light is against the law. He was wrong.

A major conference bringing together leaders in the fields of health care, law and social services kicked off a national campaign against human trafficking which has been described as a…
While the international community has been accused of dragging its feet on the Ebola crisis, Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States, has emerged as a crucial provider of medical expertise in the West African nations hit by Ebola.

“I think we should—we should advocate for the end of the embargo” on Cuba, Hillary Clinton said in an interview this summer at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jean-Claude Duvalier, the second-generation “president for life” who plunged one of the world’s poorest countries into further despair by presiding over widespread killing, torture and plunder, died Oct. 4 at his home in Port-au-Prince. He was 63.