“I’m not sick. The world is sick & I’m the surgeon with the scalpel for false values.” - Meet comedian Lenny Bruce’s only daughter, Kitty. Lenny Bruce: comedian, scathingly sharp social satirist, oppressed by meddling moralists and ...
The Bolivian coup, and the U.S. support behind it, fit into a longer process to undermine leftist governments in the region that threaten the interests of the U.S., its allies, and transnational corporations. Thirteen of us ...
Mohammed Dahlan, a strongman figure of Palestine’s Fatah party, is wanted by Turkey for his alleged involvement in a 2016 failed coup. Turkish authorities announced a reward last week of $700,000 for anybody who could ...
“Mr. Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.” More than 60 doctors sent an urgent letter to U.K. authorities on Monday warning ...
The rollback of the Chemical Disaster Rule is the latest of the EPA’s slashed environmental regulations, joining asbestos, coal ash, chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, methane, and carbon emission deregulations. The Environmental Protection Agency weakened an Obama-era regulation ...
Wisconsin is now the 10th state to pass an ALEC-inspired “critical infrastructure protection” bill, and other states are considering similar proposals to ban pipeline protests. Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers signed a bill into law ...
Accurately depicted in new film Dark Waters, DuPont was guilty of actions such as dumping sludge they knew to be toxic into a farm in West Virginia. The new film Dark Waters dives into the ...
“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, last night after experiencing chills and fever earlier in the day.” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been admitted to the ...
Whatever the outcome, the pressure for Stephen Miller to be fired or resign should continue as long as he is one of the worst examples of what the Trump White House has to offer and ...
“Reporting on the database also revealed that the U.S. government coordinated with Mexican authorities to monitor these individuals.” The American Civil Liberties Union is suing on behalf of journalists it says were detained and spied ...
In a historic first, a House committee passed the MORE Act, the first bill to take the initial steps toward decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level. The legalization of marijuana at the federal level just ...
In 2017 Yemen was ranked as the worst place in the world to be a woman. As the war continues to ravage the nation, Yemen women continue to suffer atrocities in silence. Disclaimer – names ...
Trump’s defense and survival of impeachment hearings may fall on the loyalty of four close confidants – Mulvaney, Giuliani, Pompeo, and Bolton. The House Intelligence Committee completed the public trial phase of the Trump impeachment ...
After instigating protests across Egypt last September, Mohamed Ali is spearheading a new movement to restore democracy to Egypt and bring down Egypt’s President Sisi. Former Egyptian army building contractor and actor, Mohamed Ali, who ...
After much reluctance, the U.K. has decided to repatriate from northeastern Syria the first group of children left orphaned by the Syrian War. In an unprecedented move, the British government announced on Thursday that it ...
The new documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator includes direct accounts from former students of Bikram Choudhury recounting sexual harassment and rape that occurred during private trainings. Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator joins the slate of recent documentaries ...
“Palantir is engaged in tracking of people and populations the Trump administration despises and when you put Palantir and Facebook together, you’ve got a data operation the Nazis would have adored.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...
Government penetration and control over media of little interest to those who are subject to it. (By Joshua Cho, FAIR) Last month, CNBC (10/7/19) reassured us that fears of a potential recession are “overblown,” because the ...
A Bill Gates’ backed renewable energy project has made a solar energy breakthrough that could lead to replacing the use of fossil fuels in industrial settings. Clean energy startup Heliogen is using artificial intelligence and ...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces three serious criminal charges in what could be a major blow to his political career. Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday indicted the sitting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
“The Patriot Act extension passed the House with nearly all Democrats voting for it. When Pres. Trump signs it into law, Democrats will be just as responsible for warrantless surveillance as Trump and the GOP. ...
A little will by PM Rama to love and care for his people, his country and the Albanian Republic could put the country on the right path. Throughout 2019, Albania has been a center of ...
Impeachment is becoming a multi-million dollar battleground for issue ads aimed at pressuring lawmakers without advocating for or against their upcoming election. (By Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, The Center For Responsive Politics) A veterans group ...
No driver in the trucking industry is as underpaid as military moving drivers because of the cheating and corruption in the military moving industry. The Military Household goods moving industry business accounts for 20% of ...
The proliferation of unregulated CBD products is a striking example of troubling FDA regulation delay but far from the only one. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has served an invaluable role in ...
“Israel is building illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are still considered occupied territories. This kills any alleged ‘peace process.’ There is no more 2 state solution.” U.S. Secretary of State ...
Evo Morales rode to victory in 2006 with the promise of a new day for Bolivia but mining interests have fought back. When you look at your computer screen, or the screen on your smartphone ...
Deval Patrick “didn’t just make a lot of money; he made a lot of money helping a Republican billionaire rip off the black middle class.” Former Bain Capital managing director and former Massachusetts governor Deval ...
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 ...