“I want to build the wall, I supported direct appropriations for it and fought for it — but we have to evaluate what this does to the military, what it affects, where and how.” President ...
The fate of the longtime owner of the Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, is unknown as his voice actor steps away from the role. After 30 years of voicing a popular character of Indian ...
“I guess if you can get a great deal for a serial pedophile (allowing him to go free and continue to molest more children) — anything is possible.” President Trump recruited celebrity lawyers Alan Dershowitz ...
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters, establishment Democrats and corporate media outlets want you at each other’s throats. Don’t take the bait.
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war. The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia’s central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken ...
Abigail Disney testified in support of a California state senate bill to tax large CEO-worker pay gaps before the committee voted to advance the proposal. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A bill to raise taxes on ...
“Although people argue against costly regulations, unrestricted use of these chemicals is far more expensive in the long run, with American children bearing the largest burden.” (Beyond Pesticides) Exposure to environmental chemicals in the U.S. ...
“As wildfires rage out of control and our planet endures record-breaking temperatures, Democrats must stop oil and gas companies from using backroom trade deals to destroy the environment.” The new NAFTA replacement, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement ...
“My grandparents, my aunts, and uncles lived under siege in Sarajevo for three and a half years. It was basically dubbed the largest open-air concentration camp; they had no running water, noting could come into ...
“What’s happening is persistent, not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon. We know that the long-term trends are being driven by the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” The last ten years ...
Jeffrey Epstein was doing this for TWO DECADES where were USVI officials? Were they sleeping or were they being paid off? Where were the feds? Who was watching this registered sex offender’s planes as he ...
A week after Iranian strikes on U.S. military in Iraq, Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to focus his weekly Friday address on Iran’s great victory and the loss of U.S. life endured in the Iranian attack. ...
“There is no secret that Putin is the de facto dictator in Moscow and there is no expectation that the status quo should change when his term concludes in 2024. His annual state-of-the-nation speech Wednesday ...
“I was continually hit on the head with iron rods. … They were about to lynch us.” With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras ...
Reducing the suffering of chickens can only happen if companies follow through on their promises. Consumers and scientists agree: Eggs from hens raised in cages are bad business. “Cage-free” is much more than a trend—soon, ...
Immigration advocates are concerned new asylum procedures at the U.S.-Mexico border are denying migrants their legal right to seek asylum in the U.S. A plan to send Mexican nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. to ...
“BlackRock beginning its shift of capital out of fossil fuels, including today’s divestment of coal in its actively managed funds, is a fantastic start…” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest asset ...
“They are pissing inside the tent and that’s unusual. It’s evidence of how high tensions are within the family over climate change.” Division within the Murdoch media empire intensified on Tuesday after Rupert’s younger son ...
“Our military is the finest military on earth, but we should stop asking our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily.” There were high expectations heading into the latest Democrat Presidential Debate with ...
French protesters scored a major victory over the weekend when French President Emmanuel Macron scaled back one of his planned pension reforms, but not all are happy. The French government announced a major concession in ...
Promising signs that the Libyan civil war was approaching an end on Monday gave way to news on Tuesday that General Haftar walked away from a Russian-brokered ceasefire. Only a day after Russia’s foreign minister ...
“The president didn’t cite a specific piece of evidence. What he said was he believed. I didn’t see one, with regard to four embassies.” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said over the weekend on CBS’ ...
The fires ravaging Australia are yet another sign of the urgency needed to deal with the climate crisis. But nothing is going to make a difference, because changing our path involves transforming our economy. The elite ...
In his new solo performance piece “The Truth Has Changed,” the “Gasland” director raises an alarm: The Democrats are ill-prepared for Trump’s oncoming misinformation campaign. Josh Fox, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Gasland,” the ...
Libya’s warring parties are expected to sign a ceasefire and a ‘political settlement’ that will resolve the country’s seven-year-long civil war on Tuesday. Following intense negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow this Monday, Libya’s warring ...
“Whether by happenstance or by design Trump’s loans became underwritten by Russia’s own VTB. I informed the FBI of this in 2019.” Val Broeksmit does not fit the profile of a whistleblower. He was not ...
“If they don’t right this wrong, we’re prepared to take legal action to provide relief for those that are incarcerated and their families.” Rap mogul Jay-Z and hip-hop artist Yo Gotti wrote a letter to ...
Trump’s blunders have placed us back on the path to a truly catastrophic war, with barricades of lies blocking every off-ramp. The U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a ...
Lebanon’s kafala system exploits migrant domestic workers and leaves them prone to physical and emotional abuse, with many turning to suicide as their only way out. Lebanon is a country with a population of six ...
The mystery around Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide in a N.Y. prison cell deepens once again upon reports that videotape of his first suicide attempt has vanished. U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday that surveillance video taken ...
Besides being of some symbolic and political significance, the resolution does not have any legal value and is non-binding. (Peoples Dispatch) The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday, January 9, to restrict ...
The start of 2020 saw Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama take over the chairmanship of the OSCE, but Rama must address corruption and the political crisis in his home country before he can effectively lead ...
“We learned a bitter lesson in 2003, and we do not want that to happen again.“ A new illness is making its rounds in China and while it has caused no known deaths, memories of ...
The already devastating Australian wildfires are on pace to be the worst environmental disaster of the last century. Updated figures from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science have now doubled the impact of Australia’s ...
Speaker of The House and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has decided to send in the Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump next week. “I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared ...
A new book by a mysterious alleged former Israeli spy claims Jeffrey Epstein participated in an Israeli-run blackmailing scheme. The deceased American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell were ...
Several intelligence agencies believe that Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner as it was attacking American military bases in retaliation for the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Canadians Blame Iran Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said ...
“Stop the Money Pipeline” campaign demands that banks, insurers, and asset managers cut ties with planet-destroying companies. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Climate activists on Thursday announced a new campaign that aims to send a ...
“We are excited to be joining the movement to make Bernie Sanders the Democratic nominee for president. We believe he can win the nomination, defeat Donald Trump in November, and usher in down-ballot victories that ...
“I find it insulting and I find it demeaning to the Constitution of the United States. It’s un-American. It’s unconstitutional. And it’s wrong… They had to leave after 75 minutes while they were in the ...
The first Monday of the New Year has been dubbed divorce day by lawyers due to the spike in married couples filing for divorce. So why do many so many couples divorce after the festive ...
“We may be in the midst of a national security crisis, but that is not stopping the administration from rolling back climate change regulations.” While the majority of media attention focused on the U.S.’ escalating ...
The U.S. is building a new generation of nuclear weapons and dismantling nuclear arms control treaties, increasing the threat of nuclear war. The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a ...
“All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military ...
“Clearly everybody knows that everybody in the four acting groups of nominees are white, it’s infuriating, we can’t make the industry do something…” On the heels of Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, the BAFTA (British Academy ...
“Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast. Under construction are many hypersonic missiles. The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it.” Trump ...
Exxon undertook research on the link between CO2 levels in the atmosphere and global average temperatures in 1982. One of the largest, most influential companies in the world could have taken proactive steps to transform our ...