In a controversial move, Iraq appointed an education minister with well-known ties to ISIS. A relatively new democracy, Iraq has had over the past decade to overcome more internal crises, roadblocks and threats to its ...
The beginning of 2019 means a turnover of seats at the United Nations Security Council, but will that change anything? Five non-permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) have begun to assume responsibilities for ...
“A look at the study data shows that lawyer-legislators are indeed very unlikely to support any reform that is considered restrictive to the legal profession.” Americans are litigious. We love to sue each other over ...
How does one explain Vox’s rise in popularity? As is the case in many instances when far-right groups rise to power, the answer lies amid economic turmoil. In the recent regional parliamentary elections for the ...
Every day seems to bring another Brexit challenge for UK Prime Minister Theresa May. Her harsh words for a former PM highlight her frustrations. Last week Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May survived ...
This is how President Donald Trump played 4D chess and was able to eliminate Obamacare despite Congress’s attempt to stop him. After the late Sen. John McCain made his historic vote to save Obamacare, many ...
The only way to fix our problems it is to realize that we are sovereign, that we are all leaders, all connected and all capable of making the world a better place. A good definition ...
The elite doesn’t want healthy, functioning communities. It doesn’t want strong, independently minded, self-sufficient citizens. It wants worker-consumers, bowed, scared, dependent and obedient. Divide and conquer. As a technique of control, it’s as old as the ...
Election Fallout is a series which will look at what’s next for the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party, and Republicans following the 2018 general elections. Received so many Congratulations from so ...
(By Harvey A. Schwartz) In 1998, I took on an unlikely client who had captured national headlines. “The client” was a Mississippi-based neo-Nazi organization, The Nationalist Movement, 30 men deep, who were fighting to defend ...
MIDTERM ELECTIONS: THE BIG PICTURE On Tuesday Americans went to the polls to cast their ballots in support of candidates running for local, state and federal office. Although winners have yet to be declared in ...
Does America’s militarism make the world a safer place? Does its projection of power safeguard Americans or does it endanger them? And how would Americans feel if a foreign power had a similar presence along ...
Is the controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan receiving special treatment from mainstream media? On Sunday, November 4, the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan gave a speech in Iran at Tehran University and ...
Trump is trying to ramp up support for Republicans as the country heads into the midterm election on Tuesday by fearmongering – regardless of actual facts. They say that desperate times call for desperate measures ...
Only a few months ago, world leaders fawned over Saudi Arabia’s young prince Mohammed bin Salman – a grand reformer the world long awaited. Those voices have now fallen silent. Saudi Arabia murdered Jamal Khashoggi, ...
It has become a new American tradition. A tragedy happens and the race to find someone to blame begins. And since the election of President Donald Trump it has gotten worse. This past week has ...
The prevailing orthodoxy of today — an orthodoxy perpetuated by propaganda, PR, the media and the power behind them — is unquestioned obedience to the gods of money, consumerism and perpetual war. I had the ...
The terrifying prospect of legalizing physician-assisted suicide for minors without parental consent. A Canadian hospital has unveiled a plan for assisted suicide for minors that, in many cases, would not require a parent’s permission or ...
In August, President Donald Trump had the following to say about the media during an interview with Fox News: No, not at all. But the fake news is, and the fake news is comprised of ...
Saudi Arabia has officially claimed that Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death was a result of a fist fight during a discussion that “did not go as required.” Hours before Riyadh came up with what it ...
Saudi Arabia is destroying religious and cultural sites across the country, but one group, the Al Baqee Organization, is fighting to preserve a heritage. October is not a good month for Saudi Arabia … but ...
Presidents and policy changes come and go, but behind the scenes it is business as usual, and the business of America, is war. It’s getting hard to remember what life before Trumpdom was like. The ...
With Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the United States Supreme Court being an international topic of conversation, it would be logical for most to believe Americans would agree on the importance of exercising their voting rights ...
What happens when the King’s men disavow the regime? Well, in Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy they get kidnapped, imprisoned, most likely questioned, and should they have applied themselves to offending the king: they will be ...
A leaked memo reveals U.S. support of Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen was made to preserve a U.S.-Saudi weapons deal. America’s role in Yemen has more to do with war profiteering than any self-professed desire ...
The Kavanaugh and Ford testimony was undeniably emotional for everyone involved and everyone listening. Whoever got to testify last got the good fortune of ending the day with the emotions running in their direction. But ...
With so many dangerous unknowns revolving around the MKO/MEK and its proclivity to shed blood, Washington’s wholehearted support boggles the mind. Strong on the legitimacy his office grants him U.S. State Department Mike Pompeo was ...
How are we still talking about this? With the #MeToo movement about to enter its one year anniversary, after Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, all the discussion after Aziz Ansari and the countless other stories of ...
Justification for the Yemen War and U.S. support of Saudi Arabia’s assault on the Yemeni people is sold on many fronts, but what is the real truth? Barely a state, even before its sovereignty was ...
This editorial is one part in a two-part series offering different perspectives on Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo Movement. Read the counter-perspective: “Relax Men, If Kavanaugh Isn’t Confirmed Your Future is Still Fine“ There is a ...
This editorial is one part in a two-part series offering different perspectives on Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo Movement. Read the counter-perspective: “If Kavanaugh Confirmation Is Derailed The Future Of Men Goes With It“ There is ...
Being from New Jersey, within a 20-minute drive of New York City, I remember September 11, 2001 vividly. The memories are haunting every year. As we remember the terrorist attacks of that fateful day it ...
The consequences arising from the massive proliferation of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States are staggering. The fallout from the pharmaceutical industry can be felt in all corners of America, by people from every background ...
In the era of President Donald Trump tribalism has become more prevalent than it has been in modern history. We could get into the reasons for this, which I believe includes decades of the Democrat ...
“The system is rigged.” This phrase applies to many situations, but perhaps it’s at its worse when it is applied to the unfair world of prescription drug prices, where many patients are simply being priced ...
After the conviction of former head of President Donald Trump’s campaign, Paul Manafort, on eight of the 18 counts he was charged with and the guilty plea of the president’s former attorney Michael Cohen, talk ...
As part of my ongoing series at Citizen Truth, titled “Bias In The Media. An Expose,” we are going to examine how the mainstream media has covered recent scandals involving Republicans and Democrats. Namely, we ...
On Saturday the mainstream media again embarrassed itself by getting ahead of a story before it got all of the facts. For hours the media reported that an illegal immigrant was arrested by Immigration and ...
Across all of my studies in neuroscience and the health sciences, only now have I really learned the specifics about the female reproductive system and the processes of fertilization and ovulation in detail. I know, ...
A conspiracy theorist was banned from several social media outlets–is this a cause for concern for Americans’ right to free speech? Last Thursday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars news network were banned from ...
“Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian – a vision that brings out the unity of the ...
For the last five years, there has been an upsurge in the rate of illegal immigration into Europe by Africans. The immigrants have continued to endure the dangerous journey through the Sahara desert and risk ...
(Beyond Pesticides) Ecologically-based farming systems contain far fewer pests and generate much higher profits than their conventional, chemical-based counterparts according to research published in the journal PeerJ earlier this year by scientists at South Dakota State University ...
(Guest post by Leonard Adreon) In 1951 and 1952 I was a corpsman with the First Marine Division fighting the Chinese and North Koreans on the blood-soaked hillsides at the 38th Parallel in Korea. Despite all ...
It was an embarrassing day for Roseann Barr’s ex-husband Tom Arnold on Friday when he made a wild claim about former attorney for President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, then couldn’t back the claim and then ...