On May 15 of every year, Palestinians commemorate the day roughly half of all pre-war Palestinian Arabs were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israel War. In the Gaza Strip, elderly Palestinians who were ...
“Let’s stop pretending that settlements are what is keeping the sides from a negotiated peaceful solution. This farce and obsessive focus on one aspect of this complicated conflict helps no one.” Last Thursday, Indonesia’s Foreign ...
“I don’t think we spend nearly enough time focusing on antitrust measures. And the truth of the matter is I think it’s something we should take a really hard look at.” Social media giant Facebook ...
Monday’s rally in D.C. gave Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement a platform to promote the Green New Deal. “I’ll be damned,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the Green New Deal rally, “if the same politicians who ...
“They’re short-range, and I don’t consider that a breach of trust at all. And, you know, at some point I may. But at this point no. These were short-range missiles and very standard stuff. Very ...
Just this week, drug manufacturers Bayer and Johnson & Johnson announced a $775 million settlement to plaintiffs who were harmed while using their blood thinner Xarelto. While many individuals may experience side effects while taking a ...
“This policy would, over time, cut or take away entirely food assistance, health and other forms of basic assistance from millions of people who struggle to put food on the table, keep a roof over ...
“With this fluorescence, you see the tumor so much clearer because it lights up like a Christmas tree.” Researchers used a synthetic form of scorpion venom to illuminate brain tumors via a new imaging method ...
If domestic automakers are unable to develop compelling environmentally friendly models, they are likely to lose market share, resulting in decreased exports and job losses in the United States. According to a study commissioned by ...
“But we got a second problem in this country and it’s greed. People didn’t get addicted all on their own, they got a lot of corporate help. They got a lot of help from corporations ...
“Carrying out acts of sabotage on commercial and civilian vessels and threatening the safety and lives of those on board is a serious development.” (Newsclick.In) Saudi Arabia said on Monday two of its oil tankers ...
The new season of Our Cartoon President will move from being a satire of Trump to being more of a satire about Washington overall. TV host Stephen Colbert’s cartoon portrayal of President Donald Trump in ...
“There is no reason a person should pay more than 15% interest in the United States. It’s common sense – in fact, we had these Usury laws until the 70s.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 2020 ...
“America was built on the idea that power should not be concentrated in any one person, because we are all fallible.” After Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes published a New York Times op-ed calling to break ...
Anonymous U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal that the goal of the missile is to reduce accidental casualties and kill only the intended target. The CIA’s new weapon of mass destruction is intended to ...
It is important to place Halima Aden within the larger history of black Muslim fashion in the United States. (By Kayla Renée Wheeler, The Conversation) Media reports have celebrated Halima Aden becoming the first woman ...
A MapLight analysis of Federal Election Campaign data found that 65 House members who opposed the measure received $268,965 from the 10 largest oil and gas companies in the U.S. since the beginning of the ...
“I care deeply about our country and what’s happening to it. And the world, the environment and everything that’s going on.” Comedian and talk show host Ellen Degeneres recently told “Variety” magazine that she plans ...
Beyond its link to hormone-dependent breast cancer, neonicotinoids are most infamous for their well-documented role in driving mass pollinator declines. (Beyond Pesticides) Researchers have documented an increase in food and drinking water residues of neonicotinoids, insecticides linked to ...
Charges in the indictment range from campaign finance violations and false statements to the FEC to falsifying tax records. (By Ann Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) A fugitive Malaysian financier accused of ...
“Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defense to prove she has just cause for her refusal to give testimony,” said Manning’s legal team. (By Jake Johnson, Common ...
Will Russia also be collecting personal information on all Ukrainians, who attempt to obtain Russian passports under a “dual citizenship” guise? On May 5th, a new law came into effect in Russia that blocks anonymous ...
“I wrote ‘I Rise’ as a way of giving a voice to all marginalized people who feel they don’t have the opportunity to speak their mind.” Music superstar Madonna released a new single for her ...
When migrants arrive in Tijuana, they add their name to a list, which has been managed by a series of volunteers who are waiting their turn to speak with CBP. 13,000 immigrants are currently on ...
“It’s ironic that the US government attacked Venezuela’s electric grid, and now they’re attacking the embassy of Venezuela’s electricity.” (Peoples Dispatch) On the night of May 8, members of the Embassy Protection Collective reported that ...
Although the number of sexual assault cases in the military increased significantly, the report rate for these incidents slightly decreased. According to the Department of Defense’s annual report, sexual assault is still widespread in the ...
“It’s really unprecedented for political leaders to fail to pay attention to any of the scientists in either regional offices or headquarters.” The New York Times released a report Wednesday revealing EPA officials disregarded the ...
“We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. Since their arrests 511 days ago, they have become symbols of the importance of press freedom around the ...
A bar or nightclub. An office building. A place of worship. A school. Seemingly weekly, news of horrific acts of violence by a “lone wolf” attacker reaches our consciousness. Just recently, a shooting at the ...
“Almost two cents of every dollar reported as losses one year by everyone in the United States were reported by Donald Trump. And what this shows is something I’ve been saying and writing about Trump ...
“They are forced to drink alcohol and eat pork inside the camps. All Islamic practices are prohibited such as praying, reading the Quran or fasting during the month of Ramadan, they have to praise communism ...
“Attempts at a violent coup in Caracas have nothing to do with the democratic process and only frustrate prospects for political settlement of the crisis.” The political crisis in Venezuela has spread to its diplomatic ...
“Uber says it can’t pay its drivers more money, but rewarded its CEO with nearly $50 million last year.” – Elizabeth Warren on Lyft, Uber strike A Lyft and Uber strike was held worldwide and ...
Nicknamed ‘the Rock,’ Connecticut’s Cheshire Correctional Institution is making a radical attempt to reform and rehabilitate 18 to 25-year old prisoners. Four years ago, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy toured Germany’s prison system while visiting the ...
“Food is no longer valued for its ability to sustain life, but only for its ability to generate profits.” Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping and comprehensive plan to transform American agriculture on Sunday, centered ...
The measure would have privatized education and healthcare services in a country where access to these services is already highly limited. (Peoples Dispatch) On April 30, the National Congress of Honduras officially announced the nullification ...
A frozen conflict in Ukraine at least gave the superpowers a bit of breathing room from each other. If Ukraine slides to Russia, tensions in Europe could skyrocket. Ukraine had its presidential elections last week. ...
“All of a sudden, the speech today shifted everyone’s attention to, ‘Are we looking at next conflict in Arctic?'” Secretary of State Pompeo spoke to diplomats at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland ...
“We have to be cognizant that multi-national corporations with interests in fossil fuels and pharmaceuticals own all of the major media.” – Jen Senko Jen Senko is a filmmaker who, with her most recent film, ...
“Yeah, let’s break this down. This is a message that has several different audiences.” North Korean President Kim Jong-Un reportedly supervised a “strike drill” for multiple rocket launchers in the East Sea, according to a ...
“I know this border. The president is doing the right thing, he’s right on this issue, and if he asked, I’d go work for him in a heartbeat” – Mark Morgan President Trump announced the ...
“I’ve certainly never seen a male nurse wearing a dress to work.” Last Sunday, Jessica Anderson, a nurse at the Royal London Hospital ran the city’s marathon wearing the exact outfit she does at work. ...
World Press Freedom Day was observed on May 3, but the murder of a Mexican journalist the day before cast a dark shadow on the day. On the eve of World Press Freedom Day (May ...
“We want our people to realize a real change of their daily lives. We still have a lot to do vis-a-vis this Zionist occupation.” A new fresh round of violence in the region has so ...
“More than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened.” One million animal species are currently threatened with extinction, according to a landmark ...
The weekend violence was the worst between Gaza and Israel since a 50 days war in July – August 2014. A ceasefire seems to have been agreed to between Israel and Palestinian militants after a ...
“The latest indication that this administration is running full speed directly into a major war with Iran.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In a late Sunday statement warning—without any evidence whatsoever—of “troubling and escalatory” actions by ...
“This is the spirited commitment to bold climate action that young people are looking for in our next president.” Last Wednesday, Beto O’Rourke pledged to refuse campaign contributions of over $200 from fossil fuel companies, ...
Hemp plants are male, whereas, marijuana is female and that’s just one of the many differences when comparing hemp vs marijuana. It seems like you see the letters CBD everywhere today. You almost forget that ...
If we can turn more of this innovation to address the needs of the poor and marginalized, we will reduce a great deal of the fear that has driven history for so long. (By Jesmane ...
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