Co-founder of Food Not Bombs said today, "how can we cut the school lunch program yet add $45 billion in military spending above President Biden’s already criminal $813 billion request? As the economy crashes millions more children are sure to go hungry. I get calls everyday from desperate families seeking... Read more »

Co-founder of Food Not Bombs said today, "how can we cut the school lunch program yet add $45 billion in military spending above President Biden’s already criminal $813 billion request? As the economy crashes millions more children are sure to go hungry. I get calls everyday from desperate families seeking... Read more »

"Biden isn't just forgiving Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his direct role in the beheading of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in return for a Saudi promise to pump more oil. As Biden admitted last week, this Middle East trip is about regional security -- and that of Israel in... Read more »

Leftist Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Marquez win Colombian elections. Forrest Hylton says, "Now Colombia is largely urban, and Petro’s margin of victory in Bogotá alone was enough to account for his victory over Hernández." The post Leftist Petro Wins Colombia Presidential Election appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

British Home Secretary has approved extraditi… The post Assange Case: Persecution for Exposing War Crimes appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Dr. Aisha Jumaan, regarding the war Saudi Arabia has waged on Yemen, writes in her latest piece, "News outlets in the United States give prime coverage to the war in Ukraine but mostly ignore the devastating war that the U.S. has supported." The post Saudi: The Death of One is... Read more »

A new study has found that between the beginning of the pandemic until mid-March 2022, universal health care could have saved more than 338,000 lives from Covid-19, and demonstrates that a significant share of Covid mortality in the U.S. is “due to our reliance on a system of market-driven health... Read more »

Following the Roe v. Wade leak and abortion rights activists protesting in front of the Supreme Court, Francis Boyle says, "Eliminating life tenure would require a Constitutional amendment... Counterpacking is the best way to deal with this." The post Does the Supreme Court Administer Justice? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Joseph Bullington, editor for In These Times, writes about a recent case of trailer park homeowners taking on the VCs who own the land they live on: "On Jan. 14, residents formed a cooperative, elected representatives, and voted to try to buy the park themselves." The post Trailer Park Residents... Read more »

War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?... Read more »

Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis... Read more »

Interview with the legendary Manuel family about the uncovering of a mass grave of 215 Indigenous children... Read more »

California’s divided and fire-scarred cities, reeling from climate disasters, need a Green New Deal... Read more »

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists... Read more »

“The Green New Deal is a plan that could solve so many of Texas’s problems and the problems across the country, and Republicans have absolutely nothing to offer except for more deregulation, more privatization, more austerity.”... Read more »

The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”... Read more »

A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism... Read more »

Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them... Read more »

New revelations show how one of the most treasured rivers in Europe is being killed by intensive livestock farms. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2022 The longer this goes on, the deeper the mystery becomes. It’s as if the public authorities had set out to destroy... Read more »

The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th June 2022 With every passing week, it looks more like a cover-up. The repeated mass strandings of crabs and lobsters on the coast of north-east England,... Read more »

When sewage treatment goes right, it’s just as harmful as when it goes wrong. Here are the shocking reasons why. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th May 2022 We have recently woken up to a disgusting issue. Rather than investing properly in new sewage treatment works, water companies... Read more »

The global food system is in much more trouble than we think. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th May 2022 For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global... Read more »

Those who claim that we can prevent environmental collapse without political pressure or political change are now more dangerous than climate deniers. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th May 2022 In seeking to prevent environmental breakdown, what counts above all is not the new things we do, but... Read more »

Across 12 years, the Conservatives have ruined countless lives and destroyed our social fabric. Why would anyone vote for them? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian There is one question that counts when you cast your vote: have they made life better? This month, the Conservatives will have been... Read more »

What are school exams for? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th April 2022 Why are we doing this to our children? As exam term begins, the question hangs over millions of households. NHS figures suggest that 17% of 6- to 16-year-olds in England now suffer from a “probable... Read more »

The failure to adapt to new realities is not an accident. It’s the design. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th April 2022 We have a new term for doing nothing: “learning to live with”. Learning to live with Covid means abandoning testing, isolation and wearing masks in public... Read more »

Almost everyone in public life participates in the assault on truth. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th March 2022 To the Syrians who have suffered its attacks, the Kremlin’s lies about Ukraine must sound horribly familiar. Insisting that the victims of bombings are “crisis actors”, spreading falsehoods about... Read more »

In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in 1770...... Read more »

It's party time in the nation's capital and the Christmas spirit reigns supreme, even if the Texas Republican Party does want to secede from the Union...... Read more »

It was the end of October 2001...... Read more »

As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate...... Read more »

Martin Luther King, Jr., offered this all-too-relevant comment on his moment in his 1967 speech "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?"...... Read more »

As Donald Trump gave in to the demand that the transition process to the Biden years officially begin, the administration and its fossil-fuel allies doubled down on their efforts to implement destructive environmental policies that President Biden might try to reverse...... Read more »

If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country’s catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end?... Read more »

In the military realm, Donald Trump will most likely be remembered for his insistence on ending America’s involvement in its twenty-first-century “forever wars” -- the fruitless, relentless, mind-crushing military campaigns undertaken by Presidents Bush and Obama in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia...... Read more »

By the end of this year, the White House will reportedly have finally brought home a third of the 7,500 troops still stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq (against the advice of President Trump’s own military leaders)...... Read more »

President Joe Biden was rebuked Saturday for doubling down on his opposition to expanding the U.S. Supreme Court even after its deeply unpopular right-wing majority spent the past week ending the constitutional right to abortion care, weakening gun restrictions, undermining the separation of church and state, and eroding hard-won civil... Read more »

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox Series: The Secret IRS Files Inside the Tax Records of the .001% Last June, drawing on the largest trove of confidential American tax data that’s ever been... Read more »

With its Siamese-twin decisions on Thursday and Friday, the Supreme Court didn't just turn back the clock or flip through the pages of the calendar looking for a new decade — or century — to love. Calling themselves textualists and originalists, they simply put the Constitution through a search engine... Read more »

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade took a shot at former President Donald Trump for his "unhinged" lies about the 2020 presidential election. While speaking about the Jan. 6 hearings, Kilmeade recalled his interactions with Trump following the last presidential election. "The president was unhinged during that period," the Fox News... Read more »

Guests on an NBC panel laughed out loud at conservative columnist Peggy Noonan after she suggested that Republicans should use the "victory" over abortion rights to become a "party that helps women." During a discussion on Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd noted that there is Republican infighting about whether... Read more »

The “sovereign citizen” movement—comprising scam artists and their gullible followers who claim that, by filling reams of documents full of pseudo-legal babble, ordinary citizens can declare themselves free of government rule at any level, thus becoming the law unto themselves—seems to have figured out how, after a couple of decades... Read more »

Among the most bizarre things that happened in the final weeks of Donald Trump's presidency is his White House and top adviser Jared Kushner allowed British filmmaker Alex Holder to document 11 hours of the former president, including on Jan. 6, 2021, and the days after. Speaking to CNN on... Read more »

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is being targeted for a comment she made Saturday night at a rally for Donald Trump. Miller told the crowd how thankful she was for Trump appointing three Supreme Court justices that ensured the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. What followed, however, left people questioning... Read more »

June 24, 2022 "Republican Texas House candidate in Collin County charged with impersonating public servant" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, our... Read more »

The Palestine National Football Team has, once more, done the seemingly impossible by qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. By any standards, this is a great achievement, especially as the Palestinians have done it with style and convincing victories over Mongolia, Yemen and the Philippines, without conceding a single... Read more »

Four people were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Two Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »

The New York Times published this week the conclusion of its investigation into the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. It was the fourth major US news organization to look in detail at what happened to Abu Akleh during an Israeli army raid into the Palestinian city of... Read more »

For decades, the United States has actively pursued the containment and cornering of Russia with the goal of asserting its own power and influence. Instead of formulating a relationship with a major regional power, this process has brought the United States to the significant challenge of the Russian and Chinese... Read more »

"I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) It wasn’t until 1969 that the Supreme Court’s modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person’s speech, the courts will give... Read more »

Seven people were killed. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Seven Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »

Hardliners in the US and Europe have spent the last four months agitating for Western escalation in Ukraine with the goal of erasing the remaining limits on direct US and allied involvement in the war. Max Boot is the latest one to insist that it is our war: "We keep... Read more »

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba appears to have launched a new strategy in his country’s war against Russia. Insult Kyiv’s closest supporters by calling them Russian pawns. He penned an article in Foreign Affairs, what amounts to the venerable newsletter of the Blob, the internationalist establishment. The US and Europe... Read more »

Originally posted at TomDispatch. As Alfred McCoy suggests today, we’re now in the latest version of a “cold war” when it comes to Russia and China. Let’s take a minute, though, to think about that grim term, which, until relatively recently, seemed to be a relic of history. During the... Read more »

‘This is beyond offensive’ Fury as left-wing publishing house Verso calls women ‘WOMB CARRIERS’ in ‘degrading’ Twitter thread Instead of using the word ‘women’ Verso Books wrote ‘womb carriers’ on Twitter Furious users said that the term degrades women down to just ‘walking wombs’  The left-wing publishing house, founded in... Read more »

Nancy Pelosi’s Napa: Wealthy Friends and a Husband’s Porsche Crash An accident shines a light on the House speaker’s California life among the vineyards. From left, Paul and Nancy Pelosi with Gordon Getty at Mr. Getty’s 80th birthday party in San Francisco.Credit…Laura Morton By Jacob Bernstein and Holly Secon Published June 22, 2022Updated June... Read more »

*** “Bakanov is a lanky 47-year-old who’s been at Zelensky’s side since the latter rose from a scrawny comedian in the industrial, south-central city of Kryvyi Rih to a muscular war-hardened leader famous well beyond Ukraine’s borders.”  Politico, 23 June 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnzXZ5ECHCY... Read more »

Lipstadt to visit Saudi Arabia on first international trip as antisemitism envoy ‘Saudi Arabia is a very important country in the Gulf and it has shown a willingness and openness to hosting me,’ Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt said   Deborah Lipstadt, special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, center, after being... Read more »

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Etymology[edit] (literally) old shitter Noun[edit] אַלטער קאַקער‎ • (alter kaker) m, plural אַלטע קאַקערס‎ (alte kakers) (vulgar, idiomatic) approximately the equivalent of the English term old fart, old geezer  ... Read more »

The section on Ukraine begins at 35mins:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd36N03LADE... Read more »

An Overdue Reckoning: The Napalpí Ruling And Indigenous Repression In Argentina An Overdue Reckoning: The Napalpí Ruling And Indigenous Repression In Argentina... Read more »

"We have a responsibility to protect our democracy," said the New York Democrat. "That includes holding those in power who violate the law accountable."... Read more »

"What does Biden 'agree' with doing?" Mehdi Hasan asked. "What does the leader of this country want to do to stop the increasingly fascistic assault on our democratic institutions and basic rights?"... Read more »

The quest to get nuclear-armed states to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons continues.... Read more »

Israel will keep Palestinians imprisoned on the Gaza Strip, and continue to slowly suffocate them for another 15 or even 150 years if the world does not wake up and say "enough."... Read more »

Colombia has new leaders who see the direct link between plutocracy and the plunder of our most valuable ecosystem.... Read more »

The Democratic Party has a winning message: "Stop dangerous extremists."... Read more »

"The Supreme Court doesn't get the final say on abortion," Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith wrote in a new op-ed.... Read more »

Although one witness said the driver went "out of his way" to hit pro-choice protestors in the street, Cedar Rapids police declined to make an arrest.... Read more »

Dobbs is a watershed attack that will come to be known as an infamous consolidation of an unrelenting extremist assault on this country's gains for equality and justice.... Read more »

On Thursday, Labour under Keir Starmer got a lower percentage of the vote in Wakefield than they did in 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn. In 2017 Labour got 49.7%. On Thursday they got 47.9%. I want you to think that through. Inflation is soaring. Consumer confidence in the economy has gone... Read more »

I was walking down that improbably long central corridor in a group of about eight mainstream prisoners heading for legal visits, when panic broke out among the escorting guards. About a hundred yards further down, and coming towards us, was an overweight and bearded old man walking with a zimmer... Read more »

Ukraine inherited none of the Soviet Union’s debt, just as Scotland will inherit none of the United Kingdom’s debt. Russia was the successor state to the Soviet Union, and thus got to keep the seat on the UN Security Council, the nuclear weapons and all Soviet overseas assets. On the... Read more »

A brief thought. Can anybody explain to me why Alex Salmond reaching out to ping somebody’s hair was charged as sexual assault and unsuccessfully prosecuted in court, but this by an SNP MP: “It was quite a nice night until towards the end of the evening. I was sitting on... Read more »

I was in Turkey to try to further peace talks, as an experienced diplomat with good contacts there, and as a peace activist. I was not there as a journalist and much of what I discussed was with the understanding of confidence. It will be probably be some years before... Read more »

There is no Establishment pathway to the final destruction of the Imperial British state. It will be momentous; the daft pomposity of the Jubilee celebrations reminds us of how powerful the United Kingdom once was. Only real power can prevent such forms from looking ludicrous. The show continues with the... Read more »

The comments on Peter Oborne’s excellent article on Julian Assange in the Guardian last week are a damning indictment of the media’s ability to instil near universal acceptance of “facts” which are easily proven lies. The Guardian chose as its “Guardian pick” to head the section a comment full of... Read more »

I am today in Izmir. The last time I was here, eleven years ago, I called on the bereaved family of an aid worker murdered by Israel on the Mavi Mamara. A decade later, as witness the case of Shireen Abu Aqlah, Israel is still carrying out blatant public murder... Read more »

I am in Turkey because, if there is to be movement in ending the war in Ukraine, it will happen here. President Erdogan’s firm stance on a potential veto of Swedish and Finnish NATO membership is framed in public only in relation to perceived support by those countries for Kurdish... Read more »

Tehran has conducted a new test of its three-stage solid- and liquid-fuel carrier rocket Zuljanah, according to state media Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

UK’s Prince Charles is facing a possible investigation by the Charity Commission over taking millions in cash from Qatar Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The Turkish president’s spokesman explained that a “policy of balance” prevents Ankara from sanctioning Russia Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Green Day frontman and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong is moving to London over the reversal of US abortion protections Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A bullfighting stadium in rural Colombia has collapsed, killing at least five people and injuring more than 60 Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

BBC staff were reportedly subjected to transgender training sessions last year, in which they learned that there are more than 150 genders Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Paris Saint Germain superstar Neymar is said to be ready to leave the club after feeling targeted by comments from its president Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

UK PM Boris Johnson has recast his controversial mention of serving into the 2030s Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

G7 will continue to support Kiev “for as long as it takes,” according to a draft communique Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Tehran has conducted a new test of its three-stage solid- and liquid-fuel carrier rocket Zuljanah, according to state media Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

UK’s Prince Charles is facing a possible investigation by the Charity Commission over taking millions in cash from Qatar Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The Turkish president’s spokesman explained that a “policy of balance” prevents Ankara from sanctioning Russia Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Green Day frontman and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong is moving to London over the reversal of US abortion protections Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A bullfighting stadium in rural Colombia has collapsed, killing at least five people and injuring more than 60 Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

BBC staff were reportedly subjected to transgender training sessions last year, in which they learned that there are more than 150 genders Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Paris Saint Germain superstar Neymar is said to be ready to leave the club after feeling targeted by comments from its president Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

UK PM Boris Johnson has recast his controversial mention of serving into the 2030s Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

G7 will continue to support Kiev “for as long as it takes,” according to a draft communique Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 December 2021 Two current ministers and two recent justice ministers have been funded by an opaque transatlantic right-wing group which includes members of the intelligence community. Declassified finds eight current Conservative parliamentarians are associated with the organisation. The group, known as... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 2 December 2021 Julian Assange’s fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan – the former foreign minister who called Assange a “miserable little worm” in parliament. Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett,... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 1 October 2021 The Conservative Party has refused to grant investigative media outlet Declassified UK access to its annual conference, which will hold a session titled “Is free speech in peril?” Declassified’s chief reporter Phil Miller will not be allowed into the ruling party’s gathering when... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 September 2021 Britain has long trained and supported Pakistan’s military intelligence establishment despite Islamabad aiding Taliban operations in Afghanistan – where 457 British soldiers were killed Last week, British foreign secretary Dominic Raab made his first trip to Pakistan after the botched withdrawal... Read more »

By Phil Miller and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 25 August 2021 Britain’s regime change operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been catastrophic. A key reason is that UK policy has no moral consistency — friends and enemies are interchangeable over time, based purely on short-term pragmatism and rarely... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 July 2021 A controversial Whitehall body — the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund — has used large amounts of money from the British aid budget to support the opposition in Syria. Declassified outlines the extent of this funding for the first time. The UK... Read more »

By Naser Shaker, Mark Curtis and Phil Miller, Declassified UK, 6 July 2021 Britain has a secret detachment of up to 30 troops in Yemen, where they are training Saudi forces amid the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, Declassified has discovered. The British personnel are said to be based at Al-Ghaydah... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 30 June 2021 Britain’s Middle East minister James Cleverly is regularly refusing to provide answers to written questions posed to him by members of parliament, especially on UK arms exports to Israel, contravening House of Commons rules. James Cleverly has been accused of breaking the... Read more »

By Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 23 June 2021 Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is about to establish a second fighter squadron with Qatar, an authoritarian Gulf state accused of supporting extremist groups across the Middle East which the UK itself opposes and says promote terrorism. UK/Qatar squadron will be established... Read more »

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection.... Read more »

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Primary Researchers Sam Bestvater, Computational Social ScientistSono Shah, Computational Social ScientistGonzalo Rivero, Associate Director, Data Labs Aaron Smith, Director, Data Labs Research Team Ashley Amaya, Senior Survey MethodologistNick Bertoni, Senior Panel ManagerBrian Broderick, Data... Read more »

Twitter users report taking part in a variety of political and civic activities, both on Twitter and elsewhere. Of the 14 civic and political behaviors measured on the survey, a majority of Twitter users report that they voted in an election in the preceding year (78%), or that they bought... Read more »

In addition to surveying users about their experiences on Twitter, researchers from the Center also examined the actual on-site behaviors of a subset of users from this representative panel of U.S. adults who provided their Twitter handles for research purposes. This analysis involved two separate data collections and analyses. First, researchers... Read more »

Roughly one-quarter of American adults use Twitter. And when they share their views on the site, quite often they are doing so about politics and political issues. The post Politics on Twitter: One-Third of Tweets From U.S. Adults Are Political appeared first on Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy.... Read more »

Public trust in government remains low, as it has for much of the 21st century. Only two-in-ten Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (2%) or “most of the time” (19%). The post Public Trust in Government: 1958-2022 appeared first on... Read more »

There has been little recent change in the public’s views of whether government generally should do more to solve problems, or whether it is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals. Currently, a majority of adults (53%) say that the government should do more to solve problems;... Read more »

The public continues to express more confidence in the federal government’s career employees than in officials appointed by the president. However, the share of Americans who have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in career employees at federal agencies has declined since 2018. The public is deeply skeptical... Read more »

Asked about some descriptions of the federal government, relatively small shares of Americans say they think of the federal government as responsive to the needs of ordinary Americans, being careful with taxpayer money, or being able to address new problems as they come up. No more than one-in-ten say each... Read more »

The argument that RICO prosecution should be reserved for cartels and corporations ignores the power of Atlanta's music industry. The post Atlanta’s Gang Indictment Takes On an Institution appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Attorney General Merrick Garland has been criticized for not going after the powerful people responsible for inciting the January 6 insurrection. The post FBI Raid on Trump Justice Department Official Signals a Criminal Investigation May Be Starting appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced investigations of war crimes committed in Ukraine. But America has a surplus of its own unpunished atrocities. The post U.S. Vows to Hunt Russian War Criminals — but Gives a Pass to Its Own appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

As digitais Bolsonaro no caso são tão evidentes que a Justiça determinou o envio da investigação de volta para o STF por causa do seu envolvimento. The post Bolsolão do MEC: o esquema que pode custar a reeleição e dar cadeia appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Alito’s opinion completely elides the significance of the 14th Amendment, which was explicitly designed to address the particular horrors of slavery, including the right of individuals to determine whether, with whom, and when to form a family. The post In Overturning Roe, Radical Supreme Court Declares War on the 14th... Read more »

The Supreme Court is taking away a fundamental bodily right — and condemning pregnant people to financial suffering and possible death. The post More People Will Die appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

With the end of Roe v. Wade achieved, the fascist right is setting its sights on shutting down all abortion solidarity and assistance. The post With the Corpse of Roe Still Warm, Far Right Plots Fascistic Anti-Abortion Enforcement appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Gustavo Petro of the Humane Colombia party is set to become the country’s first leftist leader. The post The Colombian Left Comes to Power appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

On the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a conversation on what can be done right now to minimize the impact of this decision on the most vulnerable people. The post Livestream: The New Fight for Reproductive Freedom appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Since the SCOTUS draft opinion was leaked in May, we’ve been covering what the end of Roe could mean for abortion rights and how people can fight back.... Read more »

Across the country, Republican candidates are using guns as a campaign platform.... Read more »

In "The Fight to Save the Town," Michelle Wilde Anderson chronicles a vicious cycle.... Read more »

Pads and tampons have been added to the list of items disrupted by supply chain shortages. Here are some tips for fellow menstruators.... Read more »

If Israeli authorities don’t act, then the international community must.... Read more »

It shouldn’t be a crime for those who are too sick to live to decide how and when to end their suffering.... Read more »

The pandemic and the gig economy are drawing Generation Z to unions.... Read more »

There has not only been continued violence against Asian Americans but new, record-high levels of anti-Asian hate crimes.... Read more »

The award-winning novel was called one-sided, too ‘diverse,’ and ‘too sad.’... Read more »

"We have a responsibility to protect our democracy," said the New York Democrat. "That includes holding those in power who violate the law accountable."... Read more »

"What does Biden 'agree' with doing?" Mehdi Hasan asked. "What does the leader of this country want to do to stop the increasingly fascistic assault on our democratic institutions and basic rights?"... Read more »

The quest to get nuclear-armed states to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons continues.... Read more »

Israel will keep Palestinians imprisoned on the Gaza Strip, and continue to slowly suffocate them for another 15 or even 150 years if the world does not wake up and say "enough."... Read more »

Colombia has new leaders who see the direct link between plutocracy and the plunder of our most valuable ecosystem.... Read more »

The Democratic Party has a winning message: "Stop dangerous extremists."... Read more »

"The Supreme Court doesn't get the final say on abortion," Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith wrote in a new op-ed.... Read more »

Although one witness said the driver went "out of his way" to hit pro-choice protestors in the street, Cedar Rapids police declined to make an arrest.... Read more »

Dobbs is a watershed attack that will come to be known as an infamous consolidation of an unrelenting extremist assault on this country's gains for equality and justice.... Read more »

David Graeber, the radical anthropologist and prominent activist, had a lot to say about police and policing, both historically and in contemporary society. Andrew Johnson [1] examines a number of Graeber’s assertions and also articulates his own views on the history of policing, the role of police today, and the... Read more »

Did Lincoln free the slaves? Or did they just as much free themselves? And what were the ramifications of their seemingly impossible achievement — immediate and uncompensated emancipation — for other oppressed groups? Historian David Roediger discusses that revolutionary period in U.S. history — and the consequences of its failure... Read more »

They are among the biggest companies in the world: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have an outsized impact on the global economy and on our daily lives. Rob Larson examines the companies that have become synonymous with the glories and ills of contemporary capitalism. He makes the case for... Read more »

Palm oil can be found in a staggering variety of food items and other products we consume every day. Max Haiven [1] traces the history of this ubiquitous commodity’s production and use to reveal capitalism’s logics and imperial states’ depredations. Max Haiven, Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire [2] Pluto... Read more »

Advancements in science are seen as symbols of human progress, but science has frequently served deadly ends. Historian Clifford Conner discusses how scientific research in the United States is deeply enmeshed with the military, and considers the purpose of trillions of dollars of spending on the military. Resources: Clifford D.... Read more »

Many U.S. military establishment bigwigs are pushing the development of automated and autonomous weapons systems. Roberto González [1] questions whether this robo-fanaticism, as he calls it, is justified. He also describes efforts to address human warfighters’ distrust of machines. Roberto J. González, War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize... Read more »

Too many hours, erratic schedules, not enough hours — and, of course, not enough pay: if you’re a worker in the U.S, time feels like the enemy. Yet, as sociologist Jamie McCallum argues, U.S. workers tend not to see their plight as a collective one and, in a particularly American... Read more »

Is there such a thing as society? Was the mid-twentieth century an antisocial moment in U.S. history? Theodore Martin [1] describes what happened to the idea of society in the wake of the New Deal and World War II, and argues that sociopolitical changes fueled the emergence of a new kind of... Read more »

As Covid tragically illustrated, large numbers of Americans are in poor health and especially vulnerable to viruses and other pathogens. How did we get here? According to physician Robert Lustig, it started with the turn toward processed food, which has led to an ongoing national and global public health crisis,... Read more »

Dozens of flights have been canceled across the US on Christmas Eve due to Covid staff shortages with thousands of passengers stuck at the airports and others forced to cancel holidays altogether. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A Democrat member of the US Congress was carjacked and robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight in South Philadelphia. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pennsylvania) was not physically harmed, but her car and possessions were taken. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Amazon has announced a limit to the number of at-home Covid test kits per customer as demand surges amid a rise in cases since the discovery of the Omicron variant. Walgreens and CVS also introduced purchase limits. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

President Joe Biden will make a public statement on the anniversary of the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, the White House said. This comes after former President Donald Trump said he would hold a public event on that day. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Pfizer’s Paxlovid tablets against Covid have been given emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The first pill treatment of this kind, it can be prescribed to high-risk patients aged 12 and older. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former New York Times reporter and outspoken critic of the US response to the Covid pandemic Alex Berenson is suing Twitter for suspending his account, claiming the platform “acted on behalf of the federal government. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former President Donald Trump has said he was “very close to going the other way” on issuing a pardon for Julian Assange or Edward Snowden before he left the White House, ultimately deciding not to grant clemency to either. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

US life expectancy in 2020 has suffered an almost two-year drop, with the pandemic being one of the main drivers of excess death, newly released official data has shown. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

One of the wealthiest people in the US, the $5.2 billion-worth tech executive Jeff T. Green, has announced his split from the Mormon Church which, in his words, is “actively and currently doing harm in the world”. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

This afternoon, Israeli forces killed three young Palestinians they say were part of an armed cell, spraying their car with 80 bullets. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Outspoken comments from a number of senior Republican figures over the past week show they are now happy to ditch Donald Trump Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Bitterness and face-saving are not valid reasons for allowing thousands to die because NATO is embarrassed at how the Afghanistan war ended Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The US should look back at the Soviet-era experience and get genuine Russia experts to advise Biden on foreign policy Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Beijing has put in motion deals with Argentina and Ecuador, two countries the US regards as being in its sphere of influence Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

No bodies have been found at a ‘mass grave’ at an Indigenous school in Canada, but there has been no dialling back in the uproar it prompted Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

30 years after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, not everyone is still optimistic over the fully federal Europe project Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

After Covid and COP26, the new threat facing humanity is ‘the quantum apocalypse’, apparently Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Pakistan’s relations with China will only get stronger in the future Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was booed by the crowd upon arriving at a London cathedral for the Queen’s celebration Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Assaults on UK officers hit around 80 per day in early 2021, statistics released by the PA news agency found, with police warning that Covid was used “as a weapon” by spitting at constables. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Most Britons are sometimes afraid to express their political or social views for fear of a negative response, though two-thirds are still unaware what the phrase “cancel culture” means, a new poll from YouGov has revealed. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

London Underground is facing the longest strike in the rail service’s history, with the train drivers’ union planning staff walkouts every weekend until summer 2022. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The NHS is set to provide children in England with life-changing treatment for peanut allergies in a European first after the UK’s medical service signed a deal for the “pioneering” oral medication after a successful study. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he was “a little too undiplomatic” when he described Britain’s unvaccinated as “idiots” who put unnecessary strain on the NHS with their “irresponsible” decision not to get vaccinated. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

London’s Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the English police watchdog over claims that, during 2020, the force mishandled alleged parties in Downing Street that were in violation of Covid restrictions. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The UK has recorded 106,122 new Covid-19 cases in a 24-hour period. The figure marks the first time daily case numbers have exceeded 100,000 in the UK, and is the highest registered by British officials since the pandemic began. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The European Commission has confirmed that travelers from the UK will be charged a €7 ($7.92) visa fee from next year and forced to pre-register their details before being allowed to enter Schengen EU nations. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Elliott Negin ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science. In a secret video recording made public in late June, a top ExxonMobil lobbyist—Keith McCoy, who was fired soon afterward—not only conceded that the oil giant’s support for... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by John Pilger Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) When I first saw Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, in 2019, shortly after he had been dragged from his refuge... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Guest Post A new MintPress News study based on Dept. of Defense documents can reveal that U.S. weapons manufacturers have sold well in excess of $28.3 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Yemen War began, including 20 separate... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Guest Post Miko Peled is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by CT Staff Lisa Pease is the author of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Read more at Questioning The Mainstream Narrative of The RFK Assassination With Lisa Pease... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Erika Schelby Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions. Here in the U.S. Southwest, we are trapped between the extremes of a decades-long megadrought and sudden violent flooding.... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by CT Staff Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times, former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online.... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by the export of... Read more »

Lynch managed to stun his audience into silence by backing Starmer after winning widespread support by criticising him... Read more »

The warnings of a state assault and the call for mass action should be taken seriously by every worker. But the fight against Tory plans to emulate Thatcher can only be waged in opposition to Scargill’s own political evasions.... Read more »

The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an essay first published in 2004, “20 years since the year-long miners’ strike”, to assist the workers in every sector now coming into struggle.... Read more »

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Around 1,000 people attended a rally in support of striking railworkers in front of London King’s Cross station.... Read more »

The World Health Network released a statement on Wednesday calling the current outbreak of monkeypox infections across the globe a pandemic and demanding the WHO declare a public health emergency of international concern. Deliberations are underway in Geneva as the emergency committee convened on Thursday, June 23, 2022.... Read more »

An organised mobilisation of the more than 400,000 public sector workers in NSW would form a powerful basis for a political fight against the bipartisan wage- and cost-cutting agenda.... Read more »

Workers and youth spoke to the World Socialist Web Site on the impact of the reactionary decision.... Read more »

While insisting that he was not “lecturing” India, Marles called on the Indian government of Narendra Modi to align against Moscow as well as Beijing.... Read more »

The spread of the “constitutional sheriffs” movement—which claims that local county sheriffs are the supreme law of the land, capable of overruling federal and state laws, as well as prohibiting federal and state agencies from enforcing them—throughout rural American sheriff’s offices has often seemed like a quaint but localized problem:... Read more »

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, GOP nominee for the governor of Arkansas, was trending on Sunday for continuing a tradition of hypocrisy that I would’ve hoped peaked when she was White House Press Secretary for former President Donald Trump. It didn’t. Footage of promises the Arkansas Republican made just one month ago began to circulate... Read more »

by Maurizio Guerrero This article was originally published at Prism Immigration advocates are sounding the alarm about the number of immigrants disappearing for prolonged periods while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Services. They also disappear in the borderlands—both in the U.S. and... Read more »

After the Supreme Court nullified federal abortion protections with demands that our nation bow to the beliefs of 17th century witch hunters, it took only hours for Republican politicians and lawmakers to repeat their demands that abortion be criminalized nationally. Justice Samuel Alito's arguments were constructed to support such demands,... Read more »

This week is rough, and many of us are reeling at the changes our country faces at the hands of an unelected Supreme Court. Despite holding the other elements of the government, the legislature, and the presidency, that does nothing to stop the wealthy few in robes, five of whom were appointed... Read more »

A federal jury handed down a verdict on Friday that will mean $21 million for the family of a pregnant 16-year-old girl who was shot and killed by undercover Fremont police more than five years ago in California. Elena “Ebbie” Mondragon was a passenger in a BMW police said hit an... Read more »

Early days of the war, the most videos showed anti-tank missiles like NLAWS, Stugna-P, and Javelins taking out Russian armor and vehicles. Then there was the “vehicles stuck in mud” phase. Eventually, that gave way to supply convoy ambushes. Then artillery strikes, and more artillery strikes. A handful of “commercial... Read more »

by Ray Levy Uyeda This article was originally published at Prism Jacqueline Echols loves to take Atlanta residents kayaking on the South River, which begins at the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and flows 63 miles into Lake Jackson. Echols says that it’s fun to bring people out on the river who have... Read more »

The Supreme Court’s Thursday decision basically eliminating states’ rights to have laws restricting gun ownership in any meaningful way is forcing states to scramble to figure out what gun laws they can have given this Trump-packed extremist court. The court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen directly dealt with a... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post The World Economic Forum’s Global Governance ‘E.S.G.’ Agenda: The Threat to... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Summer Preview: Rolling Blackouts, Higher Gas Prices, Natural Gas Rationing in... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Shireen Abu Akleh: UN Finds Journalist Was Killed by Israeli Forces... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post The US Government’s Plan to Partition Russia Into Small States. The... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post “Loud Drums of War”: The Dangers of a “Longer and Extended... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Video: United Nations: A Redundant Body? appeared first on Global Research.... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Brzezinski’s Proxy War Playbook: “Regime Change in Moscow” appeared first on... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Canada to Spend Billions on NORAD So US Can Rule the... Read more »

All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Syria Repairs Relationship with Arab Countries. Geopolitical Implications appeared first on... Read more »

What Do Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of Covid-19 Teach Us About Building a Resilient Care Infrastructure? The post The Other Side of the Storm appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

IPS and NDWA's latest report highlights the experiences of over 1,000 Black immigrant domestic workers in NYC, MA, and Miami and exposes continued exploitation, safety hazards, and insecurity during the pandemic. The post New Report: Pandemic Exposed Black Immigrant Domestic Workers to Exploitation, Wage Theft, Lack of Safety appeared first... Read more »

"The drug war has always been about the oppression and social control of people of color and minority groups." The post June 17 marks anniversary of Nixon’s 1971 “War on Drugs” speech: IPS Drug Policy Director Sanho Tree available for comment, interviews appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Why are we concerned about humiliating mass murderers? The post Vladimir Putin: Global Gunman appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Vast fortunes rely on destroying our planet. Taxing those fortunes to fund climate action could give us a shot at survival. The post The Climate Case for Taxing Wealth appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

In Patagonia, an Indigenous community's fight against repressive mining interests mirrors struggles across the hemisphere. The post Mining Resistance From Alberta to Argentina appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

In real life, plowing money into shiny fighter jets while Americans struggle and the climate burns makes us less safe. The post Only in Top Gun Can the Military Solve All Our Problems appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

At the major U.S. firms that compensate workers the worst, chiefs now pocket 670 times their typical worker pay. The post The ‘Secret’ That Gets CEOs Rich: Keep Workers Poor appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Watch this stunning time lapse illustration of the rise of donor-advised funds (DAFs) as the largest recipients of charitable gifts. The post Visualize This: Donor-Advised Funds As Largest Recipients of Charitable Gifts appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's going on. The post Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

It's 40 years since Vincent Chin's murder, with a depressingly resonant context of anti-Asian hatred and scapegoating, The post Helen Zia on Vincent Chin Legacy, Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin Recall appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

Modest legal steps that would go unnoticed in most countries are—in Nicaragua’s case—clear evidence that it is “inching toward dictatorship.” The post Nicaragua a ‘Dictatorship’ When It Follows US Lead on NGOs appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

US officials have free rein to continue inflicting collective punishment on Venezuelans without challenge or scrutiny. The post ‘Calibrated’ Dishonesty: Western Media Coverage of Venezuela Sanctions appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

On Biden’s and Trump’s favorable ratings, Gen Xers find themselves mostly in the middle among generations. The post Politico Paints Gen X as ‘Trumpiest Generation’—on Flimsiest Evidence  appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines. The post Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

While alternative media are up in arms about the Supreme Court's ruling, corporate news media don't seem to think there's much to see there. The post Liliana Segura on Supreme Court v. Innocence appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »

  This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—right next to a story about Oklahoma’s governor signing the country’s strictest abortion ban, the prominent sign... Read more »

The Buffalo killer is a white supremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people. The post Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the Buffalo Massacre & ‘Replacement Theory’ appeared first on FAIR.... Read more »