The most recent round of protests started on September 20th, and despite their rarity in the North African nation, the government was swift and brutal in its retaliation. The Egyptian government remains complacent even after the largest ...
Americans experience worse health outcomes than people in wealthy countries that have adopted single-payer style health care systems. (By Andrew Perez, MapLight) As health insurance, pharmaceutical and hospital companies fight to prevent more politicians from backing Medicare ...
The Sanders’ campaign cites the senator’s promises to “end the endless wars” and his years of work on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee as reasons for his popularity with military employees. A new analysis from Foreign ...
Is Spain’s exhumation of Francisco Franco’s body a sign the country is confronting its fascist history or merely a political move intended to win votes and election seats? After more than 40 years of democracy, ...
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 ...
According to a new climate report, rising sea levels will make extreme flooding that used to happen in Venice once every 100 years occur every six years by 2050. Venice’s famed historic sites are at ...
“The grand American tradition of immunizing its war criminals – while preaching morality to the world – continues with these vile pardons by Trump.” President Trump issued pardons in three cases involving war crimes accusations ...
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty sick and tired of billionaires telling us what we can and can’t do in a political sense and why taxing them “to the hilt,” to borrow ...
“A lot of folks get really upset about someone getting $140 a month for food stamps. How should we feel about Trump’s golfing vacations at his resorts putting $100 million into his pockets?” President Trump ...
“Today’s vote indicates that the U.N.R.W.A. plays a major role in serving millions of Palestinian refugees and that the latest U.S.’ stance against such a vital U.N. organ is being rejected by majority of world ...
“We have proof that the Trump War on Migrant Children was carefully constructed to inflict harm on children and create a humanitarian crisis.” The Trump administration secretly knew its immigration policies would overflow migrant child ...
In May Washington state joined New York state, Vermont and Maryland in passing fracking bans. Of these four states Maryland is the only one that has known oil and gas reserves. According to the U.S. ...
The late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries marked both the rise and fall of objectivity in American news media. Even so, the golden age of objectivity, paradoxically characterized by both elitism and ethicism, was anything ...
In what some are calling a new Arab Spring, popular protests have swept across multiple Arab nations including Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria and now Kuwait. On Thursday, the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Jaber al-Sabah, ...
“Mr. Menashi is one of the most contemptible nominees to come before the Senate in all my time in this body.” The Senate confirmed Trump appointee Steven Menashi to a lifetime position on the U.S. ...
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Here in the U.S., Transparency International found that the number of Americans who see “direct action” as the antidote to our corrupt political system has risen from 17 percent to 25 percent since Trump took office. ...
Adam Driver stars as Daniel Jones in The Report, a new Scott Z. Burns film about Jones’ attempt to uncover the CIA’s use of torture following 9/11. The Report is a new film depicting the ...
Republicans got their wish on Wednesday with the first day of public impeachment hearings, a day some described as devastating while others tried to dismiss as inconsequential. The first public impeachment hearing in two decades ...
A brief analyses of Scott Ritter's article about Russia's role in Syrian settlement
The U.S. has grown increasingly wary of South Sudan’s failure to form a national unity government, yet U.S. officials have refused to take firm action despite previous warnings. Sudanese Defense Minister Jamal Edlin Omar met ...
“Those of you calling for Stephen Miller to be fired by the White House because he has been revealed (again) to be a white supremacist do not understand that’s the reason why he was hired.” ...
“This proposal has nothing to do with science. They want politicians, not scientists, to evaluate the evidence of harm to the public.” The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to restrict the science it ...
When ‘fake news’ has been a part of U.S. journalism since the days of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, is there any hope for modern-day journalism? This is the eighth part in a Citizen ...
Tuesday morning Palestinians were awoken with the news that Israel launched two airstrikes on leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, killing one and killing family members of both. Angry Palestinian crowds in Gaza, including ...
A new remake of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” replaces controversial sexist lines like “Beautiful, what’s your hurry?” to “I’ll call a car and tell ’em to hurry.” Following last year’s controversy over the classic holiday ...
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court in Washington while lawyers presented arguments for and against ending the federal DACA program on Tuesday. The Supreme Court heard over an hour and a half of ...
This potential scandal is so large, it’s hard to fully comprehend what the implications may be. A major but largely glossed over report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental and public health nonprofit ...
Palestinian political factions, including the rival major parties Fatah and Hamas, are tentatively calling for general Palestine elections for both the parliament and presidency. In a letter sent by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to all ...
Skin cancer has increased significantly over the past 50 years and now a new study is raising suspicion that weed killers may play a factor. (Beyond Pesticides) Herbicide use is associated with an increased risk ...
Nikki Haley’s new book is just one in a series of forthcoming insider accounts from former Trump administration officials. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley claims that two former senior Trump advisers, then-Secretary ...
President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President ...
We are in the midst of an epic worldwide struggle between the forces of Western economic development and the remaining native peoples of the planet, whose presence obstructs their progress. The ultimate outcome of this ...
Bloomberg’s entry reflects a growing fear among billionaires that Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic primary and enact higher taxes if elected president. The New York Times reported on Friday ...
A Houthi attack on the port town of Makha could impact a UN-mediated ceasefire in the Hodeida district. Makha is said to be a main entry point for humanitarian aid to Yemen. Officials within the ...
The addition of shows like FX’s Pose and the new Batwoman series brought the number of LGBTQ characters on primetime television to a new high but GLAAD is aiming even higher. The percentage of regular ...
“It has always been thus. Extreme inequality creates social carnage and socialist movements, which forces oligarchs to choose between expropriation and backing fascism.” Bill Gates joined the list of billionaires who have expressed discontent with ...
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 ...
Recent damning reports by the Intercept Brasil and journalist Glenn Greenwald exposing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration culminated in personal attacks on Greenwald’s family and a slap in the face. Rio-based American journalist ...
Amos will not only recall the tale of her career, but will address current social causes such as the #MeToo movement and the current generation of young people leading the charge on issues like gun ...
The 11,000 scientist-endorsed letter offers several long-term policy prescriptions to climate change. More than 11,000 scientists joined to warn of “untold suffering” from the climate emergency in a report published on Tuesday, a day after ...
“Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.” A New York judge ordered on Thursday that ...
The United Nations is reportedly close to identifying the responsible party in an attack on a migrant camp in Libya that killed dozens last July. In July of this year, the Tajoura migration concentration camp ...