News stories by Jared Metzker

WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (IPS) - Bradley Manning, the army private whose leaks of classified information and subsequent prosecution have been the subject of fierce international debate for over three years, was sentenced to 35 years in military prison Wednesday, but his legal team and supporters say they will fight the sentence.

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (IPS) - The United States government is recommending new preparations aimed at protecting vulnerable communities from climate change-related disasters, a year after a major hurricane devastated swaths of the country's East Coast.

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (IPS) - One day after the killing by the Egyptian army and security forces of hundreds of civilian protestors, U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday announced the cancellation of joint U.S.-Egyptian military exercises scheduled for September.

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) - Work by the Group of Four (G4) union of Haitian peasant organisations, along with Via Campesina, a South American organisation with which G4 has created a partnership, has been singled out for promoting "good farming practices and advocat for peasant farmers" in Haiti.

WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (IPS) - Civil liberties advocates are expressing doubt that promised reforms to a vast and controversial U.S. surveillance programme will allay concerns that the spying infringes on certain rights.

WASHINGTON, Aug 07 (IPS) - New signs have emerged in recent days which indicate that extreme measures are being taken in order to suppress evidence of the pernicious effects of the energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking".

WASHINGTON, Aug 02 (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on an official trip to Pakistan, announced Thursday that high-level policy discussions will begin anew between Washington and Islamabad.

WASHINGTON, Jul 25 (IPS) - Momentum appears to be building in the push to close down the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, where 166 inmates, 86 of whom have been cleared for release, remain held without charges.

WASHINGTON, Jul 16 (IPS) - As a new round of talks behind a major proposed free trade area, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), get underway this week, the United States is pushing several developing countries to accept provisions that critics say would make it more difficult for their citizens to access medicine.

WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - "Bleeding", "vomiting", "a quarter or even a third" of bodyweight lost, "torture". These are characteristic descriptions from testimony by hunger strikers at the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay of their experience being force-fed at the hands of U.S. officials, published in a report released Thursday.