Republicans got their wish on Wednesday with the first day of public impeachment hearings, a day some described as devastating while others tried to dismiss as inconsequential. The first public impeachment hearing in two decades ...
A brief analyses of Scott Ritter's article about Russia's role in Syrian settlement
A contentious battle to remove Francisco Franco’s body from one of Spain’s most esteemed monuments parallels Spain’s struggle to confront growing fascist sympathy and far-right movements within its borders. The long and contentious struggle to ...
The U.S. has grown increasingly wary of South Sudan’s failure to form a national unity government, yet U.S. officials have refused to take firm action despite previous warnings. Sudanese Defense Minister Jamal Edlin Omar met ...
“Those of you calling for Stephen Miller to be fired by the White House because he has been revealed (again) to be a white supremacist do not understand that’s the reason why he was hired.” ...
When Evo Morales and the Movement for Socialism took power in 2006, the government immediately sought to undo decades of theft by transnational mining firms. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup ...
“This proposal has nothing to do with science. They want politicians, not scientists, to evaluate the evidence of harm to the public.” The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to restrict the science it ...
When ‘fake news’ has been a part of U.S. journalism since the days of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, is there any hope for modern-day journalism? This is the eighth part in a Citizen ...
Tuesday morning Palestinians were awoken with the news that Israel launched two airstrikes on leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, killing one and killing family members of both. Angry Palestinian crowds in Gaza, including ...
A new remake of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” replaces controversial sexist lines like “Beautiful, what’s your hurry?” to “I’ll call a car and tell ’em to hurry.” Following last year’s controversy over the classic holiday ...
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court in Washington while lawyers presented arguments for and against ending the federal DACA program on Tuesday. The Supreme Court heard over an hour and a half of ...
This potential scandal is so large, it’s hard to fully comprehend what the implications may be. A major but largely glossed over report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental and public health nonprofit ...
Palestinian political factions, including the rival major parties Fatah and Hamas, are tentatively calling for general Palestine elections for both the parliament and presidency. In a letter sent by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to all ...
Skin cancer has increased significantly over the past 50 years and now a new study is raising suspicion that weed killers may play a factor. (Beyond Pesticides) Herbicide use is associated with an increased risk ...
Big tech is opening its pocketbooks to fight growing anti-trust and consumer scrutiny. (By Andrew Prez and Tim Zelina, MapLight) With calls for big tech companies to be broken up growing louder, Silicon Valley is ...
Nikki Haley’s new book is just one in a series of forthcoming insider accounts from former Trump administration officials. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley claims that two former senior Trump advisers, then-Secretary ...
President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President ...
We are in the midst of an epic worldwide struggle between the forces of Western economic development and the remaining native peoples of the planet, whose presence obstructs their progress. The ultimate outcome of this ...
Bloomberg’s entry reflects a growing fear among billionaires that Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic primary and enact higher taxes if elected president. The New York Times reported on Friday ...
A Houthi attack on the port town of Makha could impact a UN-mediated ceasefire in the Hodeida district. Makha is said to be a main entry point for humanitarian aid to Yemen. Officials within the ...
The addition of shows like FX’s Pose and the new Batwoman series brought the number of LGBTQ characters on primetime television to a new high but GLAAD is aiming even higher. The percentage of regular ...
“It has always been thus. Extreme inequality creates social carnage and socialist movements, which forces oligarchs to choose between expropriation and backing fascism.” Bill Gates joined the list of billionaires who have expressed discontent with ...
What “Free Lula” meant was not only the freedom of Lula, but also an end to lawfare as an instrument against the people. Just before 5 p.m. on Friday the 8th of November, Brazil’s former ...
Popular uprisings rejecting longheld neoliberalist policies are sweeping the globe, and Chile, fittingly, may be at the forefront. Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and ...
Recent damning reports by the Intercept Brasil and journalist Glenn Greenwald exposing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration culminated in personal attacks on Greenwald’s family and a slap in the face. Rio-based American journalist ...
Amos will not only recall the tale of her career, but will address current social causes such as the #MeToo movement and the current generation of young people leading the charge on issues like gun ...
The 11,000 scientist-endorsed letter offers several long-term policy prescriptions to climate change. More than 11,000 scientists joined to warn of “untold suffering” from the climate emergency in a report published on Tuesday, a day after ...
“Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.” A New York judge ordered on Thursday that ...
The United Nations is reportedly close to identifying the responsible party in an attack on a migrant camp in Libya that killed dozens last July. In July of this year, the Tajoura migration concentration camp ...
The United Nations has repeatedly said that sanctions are not a humane policy and must no longer be allowed to be part of the arsenal of the powerful nations. In late October, Human Rights Watch ...
More Joy Less Pain, which will premiere in New York on November 11, is a candid look at social anthropologist Peter Gorman’s life work of delving deep into indigenous cultures and their healing medicines. We’ve ...
Three current Supreme Court cases will be among the most important workplace discrimination cases in decades and could redefine the rights of LGBT employees across the country. (By Julie Manning Magid, The Conversation) The complicated ...
“I’ve had the story for three years. I had this interview with Virginia Roberts; we would not put it on the air… she told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in ...
With New York City’s adoption of ranked choice voting, will ranking candidates by preference become the new norm in elections across the country? When polls closed Tuesday night, perhaps the biggest victory for democracy reform ...
A GOP incumbent governor won’t admit defeat. Elsewhere, new voting systems underperform. The unofficial outcomes from Tuesday’s 2019 elections are a looking glass into what may unfold next year, especially when the results are close ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
The assassination of Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a member of an Amazon defenders group known as the “Guardians of the Forest,” has prompted outrage from indigenous rights and environmentalist groups. (By Karla Mendes, Mongabay) Paulo Paulino ...
Apple just committed $2.5 billion to help alleviate the California housing crisis. Facebook and Google already committed $1 billion each. Is it enough? And why are they facing harsh criticism? On Monday, news broke about ...
When Indigenous people fight to defend and enforce their land rights, they are protecting their future—and ours. This summer, a court in Ecuador issued a ruling with profound implications for the urgent fight to save ...
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister of Ethiopia is struggling to contain a recent outbreak of violent protests sparked by a rival leader. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmad announced the new death toll from October ...
Mike Pompeo, the so-called “congressman from Koch,” announced the U.S.’ formal withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement on Monday. The Trump Administration notified the United Nations on Monday that it plans to formally withdraw from ...
Though IBM contests Google’s claim of quantum supremacy, it concedes that it passed an important milestone. For the science of computing, that is all that matters. Google’s quantum supremacy claim has now been disputed by ...
Houthi rebels in Yemen accused Saudi Arabia of bearing responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Sudanese soldiers during the Yemen War. In a televised press conference over the weekend, a spokesperson for the Yemen-based ...
The new toxic coal ash rollbacks join a litany of other slashed environmental protections, from methane to asbestos to carbon emissions. The Trump Administration’s relentless rollbacks of environmental protections continued on Monday, as the Environmental ...
The Arctic Refuge is one of the U.S.’s last wild places, and the coastal plain is its biological heart. As the sun shimmers across a tundra covered with wildflowers and lichen, as many as 80,000 ...
Could ranked choice voting finally be mounting a real challenge to the U.S.’ longstanding, but much-maligned, two-party political system? New York City is poised to join a number of other states and municipalities across the ...
“The average price of vincristine in the developing world, where it is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, is $1.80 a dose, compared to $42.60 per dose in the U.S.” Vincristine, a ...
“That’s where change comes from—it doesn’t come from old politicians. It’s always young people.” Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road, Monster) will host a fundraising event for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project on ...
In one of the responses to my recent cop ed essay "Where is the Fire Department," I received some pithy advice from one correspondent. He suggested that “It might be useful to occasionally stop-up your ...
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution. ...
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