“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 The three smartest words that Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are “NATO is obsolete.”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 ...
“I know there’s no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason.” Lisa Page, the married, former FBI agent whose affair and anti-President Donald Trump text messages with fellow former ...
When methyl parathion was sprayed on Maui cornfields on July 15, 2014, Bayer Monsanto knew full well that this use was prohibited. (By Beyond Pesticides) Bayer’s Monsanto endangered public health and the environment by knowingly ...
A decree was passed yesterday prohibiting the participation of al-Bashir’s National Congress Party (NCP) in political activities for 10 years. The properties and assets of the party are to be confiscated and its members removed ...
An alleged Douma chemical weapons attack drummed up support for U.S. intervention in Syria in 2018, but how reliable is the official report on what actually took place that day? An email leaked by Wikileaks ...
A family mourns the loss of nine after a recent Israeli airstrike struck a civilian home in Gaza in a case of possible mistaken identity. At her asbestos-roofed home in the central Gaza Strip city ...
A second release of Yemen prisoners of war in two months brings hope that the Yemen War is nearing an end. The Saudi-led Arab military coalition, which has been at war with the Yemen Houthi ...
“For me, though, film is about emotion.” — Meet director Kevin Wilson Jr. of the 2018 Oscar-nominated My Nephew Emmett I caught up with film-maker Kevin Wilson Jr. to talk influences, film and making the ...
What lies ahead for Bolivia in the aftermath of the recent coup that deposed popular indigenous leader Evo Morales? Most likely, rigged elections and the end of democracy. With every passing day, it becomes clearer ...
Teen usage of vaping and e-cigarettes took a drastic jump in 2018, but are blanket approaches like bans the most effective solution? After a spate of negative publicity and illnesses related to black market vaping ...
Over a dozen groups call for a full congressional investigation in the online giant citing threats to privacy, security, and civil liberties posed by Alexa, Ring, and Rekognition. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Amazon must ...
The New York Times Editorial Board, it seems, rarely meets a coup backed by the US government that it doesn’t approve of. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed ...
“There is this tension between being a health care provider and doing what’s best for their care … and being a profit-maximizing firm that aggressively goes after patients.” After private equity firm Blackstone acquired TeamHealth, ...
“They think this will crush our efforts, but it won’t. For every one they retaliate against, there are hundreds of us who will fight.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Tech industry labor organizers and rights ...
Protests in Iraq continue to escalate as protesters call for government resignations on charges of corruption, poor public services, and pervasive Iranian influence in Iraqi affairs. At least sixteen Iraqi demonstrators were reportedly killed on ...
“This should not be anyone’s reality and unfortunately, it is for communities sitting at the fence-line of the petrochemical corridor along the Gulf Coast — an ever-growing corridor because of the billions of dollars being ...
“Progressives will not support the National Defense Authorization bill if we do not have this amendment that brings the war in Yemen to an end.”—Rep. Ro Khanna (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) With Congress set ...
“The industry executive said the quiet part out loud,” said one outside expert in response. “Price-gouging is central to the industry business model.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Corporations’ quest for profits is what “is ...
“I’m of the thought that you can entertain and create change. It’s what Lena and I like to call ‘protest art.’ I hope that it brings value to black life and the black experience. If ...
“The biased American policy toward Israel, and the American support of the Israeli settlements and the Israeli occupation, leaves us with only one option: to go back to resistance.” Thousands of Palestinians in several West ...
“If there is no reaction to Zalat’s arrest, they will come for someone else, then another, and another. So, if you’re reading this, whether you’re a Twitter user or a newspaper editor – right now ...
No soldier should be above the law. Nor should those who sent the soldiers into battle. U.S. President Donald Trump sacked his Navy secretary on Twitter. The main reason is that the Navy secretary did ...
Republican and Democrat legislators are at odds over reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, known as VAWA, which has been stalled since last January. Reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has stalled ...
Indonesian fires this year emitted nearly twice the amount of greenhouse gases as the forest fires that razed parts of the Brazilian Amazon, new research shows. (By Hans Nicholas Jong, MongoBay) Fires from land and ...
“Since losing 2016, Dem elites have waged a prolonged effort to stop Bernie. Bernie is the obvious answer to the neoliberal Clinton-Obama legacy voters rejected.” A new article from Politico’s Ryan Lizza reveals a window ...
After signing a peace deal last year to end South Sudan’s six-year-long civil war, the country is still struggling to form a transitional government. Violent clashes were reported Thursday in South Sudan, leaving two people ...
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