Peace in the Hodieda, according to officials, will help facilitate humanitarian efforts by providing a safe corridor in the port city. In an effort to accelerate implementation of the Hodieda deal, a ceasefire in the ...
“The first time I saw this list, I said, ‘There is no way this is comprehensive.’ It’s just kind of mind-blowing that they would be this dishonest.” Last week, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg responded ...
The defense firm Honeywell International, which received $1.3 billion in defense contracts during the 2018 budget year, has given $1.3 million to candidates for the 2020 elections. (By MapLight) Major Pentagon contractors have been the ...
A study of the first ten months of the Washington Post’s opinion columns in 2009 found that pro-war columns outnumbered antiwar columns by more than 10 to 1. (By FAIR) The Washington Post’s publication of ...
President Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, has become the third president in the history of the nation to be impeached. The impeachment came on Wednesday night just after 8 p.m. when ...
In a reversal of the Trump administration’s approach to Palestine, the U.S. Congress is endorsing a 2020 budget with $150 million earmarked for Palestinian aid. The United States Congress agreed on Monday to grant a ...
“We have said since the day this indictment was made public that it was politically motivated and violated New York’s statutory double jeopardy law.” Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager of President Donald Trump’s 2016 ...
The USDA is framing changes to federal food assistance as a return to the original intent of the SNAP program and preventing dependency on government assistance. On December 4 the United States Department of Agriculture ...
South Carolina’s new Medicaid work requirement will force recipients to file a monthly report stating that they have been employed, searched for a job, attended training or classes, or volunteered. The Trump administration approved South ...
The U.S. announced sanctions targeting two South Sudanese officials as a deadline for forming a national unity government is again moved back. After much frustration over stalled efforts to form a unity government in South ...
Protests against India’s new Citizenship Act are now ongoing in every part of India, with a cross-section of society outraged by the religious implications of this law. On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner ...
The NRA’s tax records show its involvement abroad, expanding to a longer list of regions from the Middle East and Asia to Europe and sub-saharan Africa. (By Anna Massoglia, Center for Responsive Politics) The National Rifle ...
![Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel [lleewu/Flickr]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2009_2_2-israeli-airport-288x180.jpg "Israel Wants $150 Billion Compensation for Jews Who Left Arab Countries 12")
“Israel could seek to claim these funds by going to US courts. The whole thing would be laughable if it were not for this fact.” (MEMO) Israel is preparing to claim a total of $150 ...
“We don’t have any basis or any evidence for calling this a hot labor market.” – Fed Chairman Jerome Powell Despite strong job growth and a 50-year low unemployment rate, nearly half of all American ...
Four people have already been killed by police in protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, seen by many as a step towards establishing India as a Hindu majority country. (By Peoples Dispatch) Across India, tens ...
New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew is expected to switch parties from Democrat to Republican after taking large amounts of campaign cash from his Democratic colleagues. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) Anti-impeachment Rep. ...
Comparing results from different polls using different wording can be confusing and misleading, so it is best to compare polls conducted by the same organization at different points in time. (By Michael Traugott, The Conversation) ...
Communism is coming back to Albania. The one-party state is controlling every branch of the government, parliament, and justice. The Albanian Prime Minister (PM) Edi Rama is becoming the Kim Jong-un of Europe. Rama already ...
The movement to impeach President Donald Trump now heads to a full House vote, where he could become only the third U.S. President in history to be impeached by the House. The House Judiciary Committee ...
Mayor Pete wants a fresh start for America. Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to grasp how fractured that America is, electorally speaking.
New satellite images show a U.S. aircraft carrier being escorted by 20 small ships followed by the Iranian Navy as it left the Strait of Hormuz. (By MEMO) Satellite images have been released showing a ...
Investing in grid infrastructure would enable utilities to incorporate modern technology, making the grid more resilient and flexible. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ recent decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to ...
“We have toppled Bouteflika, and we will topple all the system’s men. We won’t give up.” Crowds of protesters took to the streets in the Algerian capital of Algiers on Friday, upset over the results ...
Was Boris Johnson’s win on Thursday wholly attributable to Britain’s Brexit fiasco or did antisemitism come into play as well? U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a landslide victory over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party on ...
“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 29")
“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 ...
“Every member of Congress who voted to give the most corrupt, unhinged, and unstable president in history $738 billion to fight endless wars…must never tell us that we cannot afford Medicare for All or a ...
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 33")
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 ...
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