Warren’s plan was criticized for giving the state the power to censor and criminalize internet content and for failing to define ‘disinformation.’ On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign released a statement detailing her plan ...
“The pressure is working,” said Indivisible. “We need to hear from Bolton and the other witnesses who know exactly how egregious Trump’s abuse of power was.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump fired ...
Turkey’s ruling party is attempting to introduce a law that would grant amnesty to rapists as long as they marry their victim, four years after a similar bill ignited domestic and international backlash. At the ...
Think for a moment how different Iran and the Middle East’s fate would have been if the CIA, along with the British, did not orchestrate a military coup to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Iran. ...
“Strategically …we are pouring gasoline on a smoldering fire with no structure or strategy for where we’re going to take this thing next.” To the risk of contradicting U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, Americans are ...
“The destruction of their culture directly affects the identity, dignity and future of the Yemeni people, and moreover their ability to believe in the future.” There is an important aspect of the war in Yemen ...
Despite heightened militarization and oppressive tactics by states, people across the world refused to give in and fought back for their rights to life and dignity. (By Anish R, Umer Beigh and Abhijan Choudhury, Peoples Dispatch) Under ...
After Israel, the Islamic Republic is home to the largest population of Jews in the Middle East. On December 14, 2019, a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, vandalizing the sanctuary. He unrolled Torah ...
A new report shows that during Modi’s tenure there have been about 200 documented cases of attacks on journalists who tell the truth about the Modi government. Every day and in every part of India, hundreds ...
For too many in Yemen and across the region, Christmas has become a reminder of the intolerance which still plagues and defines communities’ sense of self. In the throes of a catastrophic human crisis – ...
A study of the first ten months of the Washington Post’s opinion columns in 2009 found that pro-war columns outnumbered antiwar columns by more than 10 to 1. (By FAIR) The Washington Post’s publication of ...
Hawaiian gun deaths are the lowest in the nation, but even Hawaii’s strict gun laws couldn’t prevent the shooting at Pearl Harbor last week. On Dec. 4 U.S. Navy sailor Gabriel Romero fatally shot two ...
While claiming to “preserve peace,” NATO has a history of bombing civilians and committing war crimes. The three smartest words that Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are “NATO is obsolete.” His adversary, Hillary Clinton, retorted that NATO ...
After many protests, some violent, Iraq is stepping away from under Iran’s shadow to establish its own self-governance. Following an almost irresistible, and admittedly unforeseen, rise to the height of power in the Greater Middle ...
What lies ahead for Bolivia in the aftermath of the recent coup that deposed popular indigenous leader Evo Morales? Most likely, rigged elections and the end of democracy. With every passing day, it becomes clearer ...
The New York Times Editorial Board, it seems, rarely meets a coup backed by the US government that it doesn’t approve of. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed ...
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign after a Bolivian coup that has shaken the country and resulted in violent and deadly protests. Bolivia is currently wading through what exiled former Bolivian President ...
Popular uprisings rejecting longheld neoliberalist policies are sweeping the globe, and Chile, fittingly, may be at the forefront. Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
When Indigenous people fight to defend and enforce their land rights, they are protecting their future—and ours. This summer, a court in Ecuador issued a ruling with profound implications for the urgent fight to save ...
The Arctic Refuge is one of the U.S.’s last wild places, and the coastal plain is its biological heart. As the sun shimmers across a tundra covered with wildflowers and lichen, as many as 80,000 ...
The struggle for control of Syria’s eastern oil fields has little to do with fighting terrorism but forms a crucial template of the geopolitical struggle. No one would have thought that out of U.S. President ...
Neoliberalism, the developed world’s policy framework of the past 40 years, is now in serious crisis. The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it ...
How much does your city make from traffic tickets and other fines? (By Akheil Singla, The Conversation) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly ...
If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenets of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and ...
“Russia sees the expansion of friendly and mutually beneficial ties with Saudi Arabia as particularly important.” On Monday, October 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia, the first since 2007, ...
People are growing less tolerant to violence against animals, and lawmakers are responding. But more needs to be done. The scene was heart-crushing: 21 dogs, many sick, wounded and infected, on heavy chains or trapped ...
As corrosive as neoliberalism has been to working people in the U.S., it has been far more destructive wherever the U.S. and its allies have tried to impose it by military force. This season could ...
The big picture is that the regional Middle Eastern states are coming under pressure to sort out their differences and disputes through their own initiatives. U.S. President Donald Trump is not known to practice judo. ...
With impeachment hearings swirling around U.S. President Trump, youth environmentalists scolding adults for failing to address climate change and a multitude of clashes between nations, the 74th UNGA offered plenty of highlights. On September 30, ...
As impeachment proceedings against Trump ramp up, could he turn to declaring war on Iran in a move to provide distraction? On CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of ...
“Since the US revoked waivers for even modest imports of Iranian oil, half a dozen tankers have been sabotaged or seized in the Persian Gulf, and America and Iran nearly went to war after Iran ...
While some see Robert O’Brien as a step away from John Bolton’s hawkish, pro-war foreign policy, others consider him a traditional “foreign policy elite” sold on U.S. exceptionalism. U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen hostage ...
With the US “locked and loaded” on Iran, the Amazon on fire and India and Pakistan feuding over Kashmir, the upcoming UN General Assembly will be a check-in for where countries stand on several important ...
If you want to identify the most reckless powers in our world today, look no further than Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. There’s no point in dredging ...
At the time, Israel’s disengagement from Gaza 14 years ago seemed hopeful and significant, but little has improved for Palestinians and now Israel threatens annexation. September 12, 2005, is an especially a significant day for ...
The right only denies global warming because its climate ‘science’ has surrendered to capitalists. The man-made Amazon fires are for clearing the land of its forests and indigenous people. The benefits are for Jair Bolsonaro’s ...
“Legally exported U.S. firearms have been used in massacres, disappearances, and by security forces that collude with criminal groups in Mexico on a broad scale.” (By Parker Asmann, InSight Crime) U.S. firearms have flowed into ...
“Every single meeting of Julian Assange seems to be ‘suspicious’ for CNN.” A former staff member at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Julian Assange lived for almost seven years dropped a bombshell in late ...
Will the evolution of drones in warfare make peace more attractive to warring factions or will it lead to an unending world of armaments and missile shields? Saudi Arabia, which started the Yemen war with ...
Across the Islamic World, one in seven girls marry before the age of 18. But what if this status quo was to hide under layers of disingenuous religiosity and a tradition that still views women, ...
Once again relatively little was achieved at the annual G-7 summit – a forum that appears outdated and anachronistic. The G7 meetings seem—as each of them passes—to be a waste of time. The 45th G7 ...
Sanders and Warren may not intend their criticisms of Russia and China to justify record Pentagon spending, but the military-industrial complex is seizing on it for precisely that purpose. Among the frontrunners in the Democratic ...
“We’ve been speaking with Russia about the pact for nuclear. China is very excited about it too.” – President Trump The U.S. officially withdrew from the Cold War-era strategic nuclear deal signed in 1987, known ...
A now powerful player in the White House, the MKO/MEK group has become a force to be reckoned with, most likely to the detriment of peace. In a rare move last month Congressional members crossed ...
Airspace violations are more of an etiquette issue than an act of war and they happen fairly often and do not cause any long term issues. (By Tim Kirby, Strategic Culture Foundation) Alarmist and inaccurate journalism ...
Lack of regulation in the charter school industry is turning education into the hottest get rich quick scheme about town. One of the most crucial differences between charter schools and traditional public schools is how ...
“If anyone dares to separate Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will certainly fight, resolutely defending the country’s sovereign unity and territorial integrity.” On Wednesday, July 24, China released its white paper on defense titled ...
An abstinence only program in Montana told teens that “condoms cause cancer,” birth control pills are only 20% effective and cause cervical cancer and sterility. The American experiment is a beautifully chaotic thing. Opposing sides ...
“In the context of NATO, the United States [has deployed] around 150 nuclear weapons in Europe, in particular B61 free-bombs, which can be [delivered] by both US and Allied planes.” (By Brian Cloughley, Strategic Culture ...
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