Soldiers also engaged in cover-ups by disguising civilians as militants to make operations appear legitimate. The Middle East Eye report revealed how junior officers in the British army were taught to specifically shoot such civilians ...
When will Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism be called to account for its zealotry and human rights abuses? Addressing the nation during his State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump further affirmed his determination to ...
Magnetic north is on the move, wandering toward Siberia. If you check your compass now, it might give a faulty reading, rendering navigation less precise. A compass needle always points to the direction of the ...
The Yellow Vest Movement continues to grow in Europe despite France’s recent attempt to quell protests with an anti-hooligan law. (Peoples Dispatch) French trade unions organized a general strike, and massive mobilizations on Tuesday, seeking ...
A new law passed by Congress again cuts United States’ funding for Palestine. Thanks to a bill passed last year in Congress, the U.S. just ended its roughly $60 million annual financial support of Palestine, ...
At least 1 percent of American teenagers are using the drug Flakka, but it could be more than that. The first national study on Flakka was just published and it had some disturbing findings regarding ...
The UN wrapped up a preliminary investigation into the Khashoggi murder despite frustration over lack of access. A U.N.-led team, headed by French diplomat Agnes Callamard, sent to Turkey to investigate the killing of Saudi ...
“The SENATE sucks but HOLLYWOOD sucks even more!” Twenty years after activist-artists Guerrilla Girls papered film festivals and billboards in protest over a lack of female film directors, the group is back with the same message, proving ...
“This is the opposite of what Utahns voted for. The voters got it right, and the politicians need to listen.” Utah natives voted to have Medicaid expanded under the Affordable Care Act in November, but ...
Stacey Abrams, the runner up in the Georgia gubernatorial race, delivered the Democrat response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. As a black woman who came close to victory in a red ...
President Donald Trump delivered his 2019 State of the Union address on Friday. It was predictably polarizing as State of the Union speeches typically are, divided with applause and jeers on partisan lines. It was ...
The Denver teachers union rejected another proposal from the metropolitan school district during the latest negotiation. With one of the lowest teacher salaries in the nation, 93 percent of Colorado teachers in the Denver Classroom Teachers ...
Voter fraud is extremely rare. States using unreliable data to justify purges of eligible voters, however, is not. (ACLU) The president of the United States is once again spreading unsubstantiated claims about rampant voter fraud and undermining ...
“All I want to do is be able to watch,” Trump said in an interview regarding his plan to keep troops in Iraq to monitor Iran. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump told CBS that ...
Canada is passing the United States in terms of cannabis legalization, and some see it as a missed opportunity. In the past weeks, cannabis became federally legal to sell in Canada. For cannabis advocates, having a G7 nation legalize ...
In today’s world, we can’t pretend racism doesn’t exist anymore. There has been a lot of racism in the news recently and it got me looking internally about my perspective on it. It is important ...
Candice Payne became a modern day hero when she bought 20 hotel rooms for Chicago’s homeless during last week’s polar vortex. One woman made national news last week when she bought 20 hotel rooms, sheltering ...
Displaced coal miners in West Virginia are finding alternative forms of employment to replace their coal-mining history. Thousands of coal miners in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the nation, are out of ...
Public Interest Advocates, Local Governments, and Others Defend the Open Internet Order (EFF) The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard the case of Mozilla v. FCC today to determine whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is allowed to repeal ...
New research explains how naval sonar can cause whales to die from decompression sickness. Although scientists have known for a while that naval sonar can cause beached whales until recently they were unable to explain ...
“Long live people’s power”, said Maduro, urging the people to continue fighting for their sovereignty. (Peoples Dispatch) On February 2, thousands of citizens and members of social movements and people’s organizations took part in a ...
“We could be watching the extinction of what was a common species just 5 years ago.” An “underwater zombie apocalypse,” is how University of California, Davis, veterinarian Joe Gaydos described a “sea star wasting disease” ...
A handful of studies offer compelling evidence that the stratospheric polar vortex is changing. (By Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University The Conversation) A record-breaking cold wave is sending literal shivers down the spines of millions of Americans. Temperatures across ...
The 39-year-old woman was executed earlier this week on charges of murdering her employer. Rights organizations have long criticized the horrible conditions in which domestic workers are forced to work in Saudi Arabia, with the ...
Michael Dell falsely argues that top marginal tax rates as high as 70 percent have never worked. (Inequality.org) At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a panel moderator asked Michael Dell, America’s 17th-richest ...
Who is Juan Guaidó and how did he rise to the head of a movement to end Nicolas Maduro’s reign in Venezuela? Juan Guaidó, a relatively unheard of 35-year-old Venezuelan politician, has suddenly taken Venezuela and the ...
In the face of yet another blatant power grab led by the US and supported by right-wing forces in Latin America, the government and people of Venezuela mount a strong defense. (Peoples Dispatch) On January ...
A change in federal accounting rules means the government can lie on its public accounting books and lie about how much it is spending on national security operations. On October 4, 2018, the Federal Accounting ...
“The American threats against international judges clearly show the new political climate. It is shocking. I had never heard such a threat.” A senior judge at the United Nation’s International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) has resigned ...
(RFE/RFL) Russian officials and politicians blasted the U.S. decision to suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, with one lawmaker saying Washington had “taken another step toward its destruction.” “I congratulate the ...
The Marine Corps reached a 10-year high in suicides and is taking steps toward prevention and outreach. The Marine Corps Manpower and Reserve Affairs revealed that 75 Marines committed suicide in 2018, 57 active duty Marines ...
New York lawmakers passed a bill to lengthen the time child victims of sexual abuse have to sue their abusers or bring criminal charges. Statutes of limitations for child molestation victims are set to change ...
A secret offer between Russia and North Korea is being viewed by analysts as a move by Russia to assert its influence on the world stage. Russian officials secretly offered North Korea a nuclear power ...
Law enforcement agencies working on Super Bowl security made 33 arrests and rescued several victims ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. America’s greatest sporting event is likely also America’s biggest sex trafficking event. Football fans flock ...
The owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline just won a controversial court approval to construct another pipeline through Louisiana protected wetlands. An appeals court in Louisiana ruled that the state’s Department of Natural Resources was correct ...
Bipartisan frustration over Trump’s use of tariffs in trade wars has lead to a new bill to curtail the President’s power. United States lawmakers are taking steps to reduce the president’s power to level import tariffs ...
Scores of Telugu-speaking students, 8 recruiters among those arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. (NewsClick) At least 200 Indian students and eight student recruiters of Indian origin have been arrested and several others ...
Why not run as a Democrat and join an ever-deepening 2020 field? As Schultz has suggested in interviews, he opposes running as a Democrat because of what he views as “extremism on both sides.” He ...
PotCoin and ParagonCoin are just two of the many cryptocurrencies circling the CBD world. Cannabidiol, or CBD for short, has long been lauded for its potential significant medical benefits and pain-reducing aspects. But for all of its popularity and ...
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaido, claims to have seized the state asset after the US imposed a series of sanctions on the country’s state oil firm, PDVSA. The U.S. argues that sanctions applied on ...
A sinkhole in Florida turned out to be an elaborate tunnel heading towards a Chase bank in Florida. Public works employees in Florida may have inadvertently thwarted an elaborate bank heist when a sinkhole they ...
Native Son is a film adaptation of a classic novel exploring social conditions a young African American man must cope with, issues that many consider still exist today. Regarded as a classic work of 20th ...
It’s quintessential for us to spread awareness and cease the criticizing conversations. According to the National Safety Council, just released statistics reveal that the lifetime odds of death are more likely to occur by accidental opioid ...
As relations worsen between the US and Russia, is Venezuela beginning to look like the first contested battleground in a new Cold War?
Americans around the country are finding humorous ways to survive the polar vortex, including blowing ice bubbles and freezing their pants. This week the continental U.S. is freezing, or at least 75 percent of the ...
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