Judge Loretta Biggs said the law’s provision preventing voters from showing public assistance ID cards to vote was “particularly suspect.” (By Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Civil rights advocates on Tuesday praised a federal judge in ...
Despite multiple warnings that Australia would face “catastrophic fires,” Australia consistently ranks as one of the worst countries on climate change policy. Australia’s worst bushfire season on record intensified on Tuesday, forcing thousands of people ...
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 ...
Citizen Truth spoke with the Gaza representative for the BDS movement following recent moves by the Trump administration criticized for targeting growing support for BDS. On December 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive ...
Angry supporters of an allegedly Iran-linked militant group in Iraq targeted by U.S. airstrikes on Sunday have surrounded the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Hours after the Iraqi Shiite-dominated government described deadly U.S. airstrikes on the ...
With the recent tragic loss of teen icon Juice Wrld, many families are wondering how to help teens cope with the loss of an idol.
Recent challenges to anti-camping or homeless bans in court will likely affect how homelessness is handled across the country. This month two high profile court cases have limited cities’ ability to try and ban sleeping ...
Despite originally promising to forgo super PACs, former Vice President Joe Biden has opened his 2020 campaign to funding from a number of questionable big donors. Joe Biden’s campaign late Friday released the names of ...
Russian and Israeli media outlets reported a fistfight broke out between US and Russian troops stationed near each other in Syria. (By MEMO) A number of Russian soldiers were badly beaten and airlifted to a ...
When a PR crisis threatened to take down one of the nation’s most well-known veterans organizations, author Doug White investigated the ensuing Wounded Warrior Project scandal and found a web of false allegations. The Wounded ...
“We will not stand for the Islamic Republic of Iran to take actions that put American men and women in jeopardy.” At least 25 militants were reportedly killed on Sunday and about 55 others wounded ...
Wind farms are one of the obvious choices for transitioning off fossil fuels, but for Trump they are a massive point of contention. President Donald Trump went on a tangent that included his favorite wind ...
An estimated 500,000 Americans every year are driven into bankruptcy due to medical bills or missed work from illness. A report from Gallup published earlier this month demonstrates the consequences of the United States’ exceptionally ...
“This issue isn’t going away in 2020, and it will be devastating to her re-election campaign as Iowans learn more about her breaking the rules to further her own political career.” (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center ...
The United States’ heavy-handed approach toward sanctions may have consequences far more severe than the US is prepared for. As Iran is inching ever closer to renege on the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal ...
“The parties responsible for this, and other atrocities, must be held accountable.” Both the United Nations and the Saudi-led Arab military coalition in Yemen promised on Thursday to hold an investigation into a recent deadly ...
“We notified the EPA 18 years ago that PFOA in drinking water presented a public health threat, and in 2019 there are still no federal regulatory limits.” Corporate lawyer Robert Bilott spent two decades fighting DuPont ...
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 ...
“Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control ...
“I formally warned Boeing leadership in writing on multiple occasions – specifically, once before the Lion Air crash and again before the Ethiopian Airlines crash about potential airplane risk due to the unstable operating environment ...
“We are not Muslims, we are not Christians, we are not Arabs, we are not Africans, we are Sudanese.” – Secretary General of Sudan’s Council of Churches, Father William Deng For the first time in ...
“Senators who oppose this plan will have to explain why less evidence is better than more evidence. Again, let me say that to every senator in this room, Democrat and Republican, senators who oppose this ...
“In the name of Iraq and in the name of Iraqi people, in the name of martyrs, in the name of all those who sacrificed, and in the name of the displaced, the law has ...
“The financial industry may have been overshadowed by Big Tech in recent years but remains at the heart of the question of whom the economy works for. You would assume this would merit the attention ...
Any responsible government Americans elect in 2020 must learn from the well-documented failure and catastrophic human cost of U.S. regime change efforts in Afghanistan. The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, ...
A last-minute budget deal will prevent a second government shutdown under the Trump administration. We take a look at the main ways the government allocated taxpayer money. On Friday, December 20, just in time to ...
Drug reform achieved some major milestones in 2020 including reining in civil asset forfeiture and freeing thousands of inmates under the First Step Act. As the clock ticks down toward 2020, it’s worth taking a ...
“Those who dispatched the death squad to Istanbul on a private jet and sought to sweep this murder under the rug, have been granted immunity.” A Saudi Arabian court ruling on the 2018 killing of ...
2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is receiving heavy criticism for hiring a call center that uses prison labor which can pay as little as $20 a month. Multibillionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg hired a contractor ...
Assange and Manning are being persecuted for speaking truth to power. The most important stories of the year for those who care about a free press involve the arrest of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian ...
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 ...
Treating Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s defeat as a “harbinger” of doom for anyone in his mold overlooks the 800-pound gorilla of Brexit, a significant complication to traditional two-party politics. Despite Boris Johnson’s best efforts, his ...
As Syrian forces push to eradicate the last of the opposition in Idlib, residents flee to a wary Turkey. Army forces of the Syrian Arab Republic expanded on Sunday their theater of military operations in ...
France’s ongoing demonstrations reflect a global trend of widespread anger over rampant inequality in the world’s economic and political systems. French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to pacify massive protests over his plans to overhaul the ...
“In brief, I am satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.” In an unprecedented statement, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced ...
“Today the investigatory powers tribunal decided that MI5 can secretly give informants permission to commit grave crimes in the UK, including violence.” A London court on Friday ruled that Britain’s domestic intelligence service MI5 is ...
The most serious harmful effect of treating ecstasy use and sales as a criminal matter is that users are forced into an unregulated, no-quality-control black market, and they don’t know what they’re getting. Every weekend, hundreds ...
“These companies – the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies – have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell have been ...
Lies are an integral part of national security operations. They seek credibility for government policy. They mislead adversaries, cover up mistakes and failures. (By Gordon Adams, The Conversation) The Washington Post has, after more than ...
I have “reinterpreted” Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem as a commentary on the state of politics in America for the past seven years. As each New Year begins, I believe that nothing in the world ...
Iran has long attempted to free itself of the global economic banking system, promoting an “axis of resistance” against Western countries. (By MEMO) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on Muslim majority countries to cooperate ...
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 – ...
Is space about to become a war zone? After the addition of the United States Space Force, NATO is now signaling its own operations in space could be coming. Operational Zone North Atlantic Treaty Organization ...
“We have to acknowledge the long, horrible history of black men being falsely accused of sexual violence in this country… we also have to acknowledge the long and horrible history of sexual violence against black ...
The U.S. pressed its case to the U.N. Security Council that Iran was behind attacks on Saudi oil facilities in September, while the U.N. is hesitant to rush to judgment. (MEMO) The US has shared ...
“No presidential candidate is going to get taken seriously on climate change if they’re funded by and taking advice from current and former fossil fuel executives.” Former Vice President Joe Biden is not going to ...
A national forum on education comprised of 2020 presidential candidates reveals a party moving away from charter schools and failed reforms. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet wants you to know how much he cares—really cares—about ...
Security forces shutting down internet access and detaining demonstrators as dissidents swept up and at least three people killed. (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The crackdown by Indian authorities against those protesting the country’s new ...
“Nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve Exxon Mobil from responsibility for contributing to climate change in the production of its fossil fuel products. But Exxon Mobil is in the business of producing energy, ...
“I just hope [the film] opens their eyes. We’re not beyond reality, where everybody is suddenly going to lead the charge, but as long as it’s out there and everybody can rally around it, to ...
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