“I don’t think the appetite is real high for turning this into a prolonged spectacle.” Senate Majority Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is planning on having a quick acquittal of President Donald Trump if ...
As depicted in the film, the FBI allegedly pressured Jewell to confess to the crime, while dismissing physical evidence that indicated he couldn’t have done it. The new film, Richard Jewell, is based on a ...
“The owner class will buy up every lever of power they can… But in the end we will win because together we are unstoppable.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) A lengthy Bloomberg article spotlighting President Donald Trump’s ...
![Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud participates in the Counter-ISIL Ministerial Joint Ministerial Plenary Session, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 21, 2016. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/mbs-288x180.jpg "Saudi Aramco Becomes Highest Valued Company In History As Climate Question Looms 4")
“It is a bad time to buy into an oil company whose major asset is reserves in the ground that can sustain current production levels of the carbon-laden fossil fuel until near the end of ...
Roger Ailes launched the careers of TV news figures including Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Megyn Kelly, then resigned in 2016 amid multiple accusations of sexual harassment. He was seen as a de facto leader ...
A new report finds “the federal government has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools that never even opened, or opened and then closed because of mismanagement and other reasons.” Earlier this year when ...
The recent Pensacola shooting at a U.S. naval base by a Saudi lieutenant is a reminder of the dangers of U.S. Middle East policy. The brutal shooting at a U.S. Naval Base in Pensacola, Florida ...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses reporters on June 27, 2016, at Villa Taverna - the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Rome, Italy - between a pair of bilateral meetings between him and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/27830918172_69fcb7146a_k-288x180.jpg "Israel is Heading for a Third Round of Elections 8")
Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career is still barely hanging on as Israel heads to yet another round of parliamentary elections. Israeli political leaders were reported Wednesday to have failed once again to ...
“Pelosi’s reasoning doesn’t make sense—starting a war based on a coordinated public lie is illegal, and therefore more than enough grounds for impeachment.” In a CNN Town Hall last Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made ...
“Once our leadership decides to attack the Zionist enemy, we will be ready to do so.” The Defense Minister of the Yemeni militant Houthi group, Major General Mohammad Al-Atefi, warned over the weekend that Houthis ...
The recently divulged Afghanistan Papers confirm a harsh truth that many already suspected: no gains were made in the 18 years since the war in Afghanistan began. Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As ...
Anthropologist Carl Schuster once wrote, “Nobody has the vaguest notion of what this world is really like; the only thing that can be safely predicted is that it is very different from what anybody supposes.” ...
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 ...
A Russian and Syrian offensive on Idlib province, a center of the opposition forces in the long-running Syrian War, killed over a dozen civilians over the weekend. Late on Saturday night, Russian jet fighters and ...
While the War in Afghanistan has been a catastrophe for most, it has been tremendously profitable for multinational corporations that do business with the U.S. military. U.S. Government officials systematically deceived the American public about ...
(By Shane Cronin, The Conversation) Five people have been confirmed dead, 31 remain in hospital with injuries and eight are still missing after sudden volcanic eruptions on Whakaari/White Island off the east coast of New ...
Could a new study suggesting BPA levels in humans are higher than previously thought explain public health trends like a global decline in sperm counts? A new and more accurate method of measuring BPA levels ...
“We have these companies completely wrapping themselves in the colors of the U.N., pretending to be green, whilst underneath the dirty reality is they’re climate criminals.” Protestors condemned the presence of fossil fuel corporations at ...
“This is one of the most shocking discoveries I’ve made in decades of radiation surveys.” The troubling discovery was supposed to remain under wraps, until Greenpeace Japan determined on December 4 that it had no ...
“PG&E pumped out $4.5 billion in dividends and let the tree budget wither.” On Friday, California utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced it had reached a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of several ...
In a temporary softening of relations between the U.S. and Iran, the two countries agreed to a prisoner swap on Saturday. Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang was freed by Iran on Saturday after serving three ...
West Virginia officials fired and suspended over 30 corrections officers for their participation in a photo showing officers giving a Nazi salute. Three people have been fired and dozens suspended over a photo which shows ...
Lobbying firms in Washington D.C. saw revenue more than double in the Trump era. (By Yue Stella Yu, The Center for Responsive Politics) For many well-connected Washington lobbying firms, business is booming after President Donald ...
“Voting rights should be a nonpartisan issue, and the fact that in this amendment they would try to politicize voting rights – we should all, ALL, be appalled by that.” In a highly partisan vote, ...
In late November, U.S. navy personnel boarded an unmarked ship and found a cache of missile parts that the U.S. claims are Iranian made and bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen. U.S. naval forces in ...
“We saw him on the ground and told him to crawl. But then a military vehicle raced up and a soldier fired at him, shooting him in the right leg. Soon a helicopter came and ...
The Great Recession of 2008, desperation, and the documentary of the Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt: meet director Theo Love & Rodney Hyden. I chatted with The Legend of Cocaine Island’s director Theo Love and Rodney ...
In an attempt to modernize and improve the appearance of Egypt, the government is moving to replace tuk-tuks with minivans but could devastate an off-the-grid economy while doing so. Egyptian transportation authorities are considering a ...
Food manufacturers may be causing the destruction of a nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia. Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest, add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops and tigers ...
The Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 could restore one of the most powerful provisions of the original 1965 Voting Rights Act, but must first pass an upcoming vote in the House. In 2013 the ...
The government Iraqis are protesting against today is still led by the same gang of U.S.-backed Iraqi exiles who wove a web of lies to stage-manage the invasion of their own country in 2003. As ...
“This very much appears to be a Betsy DeVos scheme to block the next president from unilaterally forgiving federal student debt, which she is well aware a president could do without Congress. The DeVos family ...
“The consultants, three people who worked on the project said, seemed focused solely on cutting costs and speeding up deportations — activities whose success could be measured in numbers — with little acknowledgment that these ...
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 ...
“This is an unacceptable escalation of the administration’s war on working families, and it comes during a time when too many are forced to stretch already-thin budgets to make ends meet.” The Trump administration announced ...
“We should establish security in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz through expanding our cooperation and preventing foreign powers to interfere.” – Iranian President Rouhani. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed on Tuesday his country’s willingness ...
“The music industry—and entertainment fields at large—have long been rife with corruption and victimization, given the nature of its constituents: aspiring artists, intense capitalization, and decadent lifestyles.” Oprah Winfrey will executive produce a new documentary ...
Wealthy countries have left developing countries with an ugly choice: to forgo carbon, the cheapest fuel, and then forgo social development for their populations; or to continue to use carbon and threaten the planet. In ...
Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people. In 2014, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commissioned by the UK government and Wellcome Trust, estimated that ...
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 ...
“From the Gaza Strip, under Israel’s occupation and siege, we salute the students with Brown Divest and all those involved in this victory. It represents an important US university precedent.” A Brown University committee voted ...
Grumpy Old Men, the heist film & a true story of Dick Nixon’s dirty money: meet director Mark Steven Johnson of Finding Steve McQueen. Filmmaker Mark Steven Johnson dishes on filmmaking, screenwriting, Richard Nixon’s dirty ...
“The US sanctions will shape the trajectory of this transitional government. If it goes wrong it will take years to reverse the damage.” In an exclusive interview with The Independent on Sunday, Sudanese Prime Minister ...
For a new growing Christian movement to oppose Donald Trump is to oppose God. (By Brad Christerson and Richard Flory, The Conversation) In a recent interview with Fox News, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry stated that ...
The two main measures of the U.S. economy are showing the same trends under Trump that were shown under Obama ever since 2010. The economic performance of the U.S. under Trump is basically the same ...
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat will resign in January after recent news implicating his administration in the role of the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. More than two years after a car bomb ...
Another priest sexual abuse scandal has rocked the Catholic Church this time implicating officials as high up as Pope Francis. The global sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has devastated the reputation of the Catholic ...
“Chairman Schiff’s carefully controlled and blatantly unfair process served only to further confirm that the President has done nothing wrong and that there is no basis for continuing your inquiry.” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone ...
Luis Lacalle Pou’s victory ushers in a conservative government and ends the rule of the left-wing Frente Amplio coalition after 15 years in power during which Uruguay saw major social and economic gains. (Peoples Dispatch) ...
“We’ve made more progress in the past five years than I’ve made in the previous 50,” Charles Koch told supporters last year. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) The Charles Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity ...
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