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. ...
“We had to deal with this idea that the entire system changed…” – Reese Witherspoon on the premise of ‘The Morning Show’ TV veterans Jennifer Aniston (“Friends”) and Steve Carrell (“The Office”) return to the ...
Q: What kind of company views the very existence of Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign as an “existential threat?” A: Facebook, and the doom-and-gloom terms in which it frames this discussion tell you all you need ...
Hours after the Israeli army wounded scores of Palestinian border demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, projectiles from Gaza were fired into nearby southern Israeli towns. On Friday afternoon approximately 100 Palestinian border demonstrators in Gaza ...
The United States Forbid Kurds To Cooperate With Other States
The German ambassador to Libya Oliver Owcza announced on his Twitter in early September that his country intends to hold a meaningful international conference this fall in Berlin to resolve the Libyan crisis. “Germany therefore ...
The controversial Keystone Pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil on Thursday, making it already the eighth largest spill of the decade. The Keystone Pipeline leaked approximately 383,000 gallons of crude oil in ...
When intellectual property laws that protect companies conflict with the rights of farmers to plant their fields, who should win? (By Karine Eliane Peschard, The Conversation) A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of ...
Despite international condemnation of Israeli housing settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, Israel has ramped up building construction in 2019. Israel has approved the construction of over 2,000 Israeli housing units in the occupied Palestinian West ...
Multiple forensic pathologists have come forward and cast doubt on the official ruling of Jeffrey Epstein’s death as a suicide including world-renown pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. One of the top forensic pathologists in the world ...
The struggle for control of Syria’s eastern oil fields has little to do with fighting terrorism but forms a crucial template of the geopolitical struggle. No one would have thought that out of U.S. President ...
From Houston to Honolulu and San Diego to Sioux Falls, methamphetamines are the number cause of drug overdose deaths. According to a report released on October 25 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
The Democrat-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump will continue after a House vote on Thursday formalized the steps ahead. Just over a month since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment investigation into President Donald ...
Rex Tillerson testified Tuesday in a New York lawsuit that could be a turning point for prosecuting powerful actors who knowingly deceived others about climate change. Rex Tillerson, who served as CEO of ExxonMobil from ...
While touting his efforts to end US involvement in Syria, Trump approved $4.5 million more for the White Helmets. This group has been at the heart of the regime-change war on the country, partnering with ...
Turkish and Russian troops will begin patrolling a 5-mile zone along the Turkish border. Both Turkish and Russian military officials agreed on Wednesday to begin jointly patrolling areas in northwest Syria by this Friday. According ...
“I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.” Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, ...
Neoliberalism, the developed world’s policy framework of the past 40 years, is now in serious crisis. The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it ...
Trump said Washington is mulling over Syria’s oil reserves. Meanwhile, he has put across a tantalizing proposition for Erdogan to ponder over. The morning after a summit meeting often holds surprises. Turkey lost no time ...
For the second time since Monday, an assassination attempt targeted Ministers in the official Yemen government. A large explosion ripped through a convoy for Yemen Defense Minister Mohammad al-Maqdishi on Tuesday, which involved several ministerial ...
Alabama Republicans are hoping to take a new Alabama abortion law all the way to the Supreme Court in hopes of overruling Roe v. Wade. Two and a half weeks prior to a new Alabama ...
“Agricultural choices must be made by these inescapable standards: the ecological health of the farm and the economic health of the farmer.” —Wendell Berry For almost five decades, organic farming associations like the Northeast Organic ...
Greg Walden’s decision to not run for reelection puts the number of retiring House Republicans at three times that of Democrats, sparking rumors of another ‘Blue Wave.’ Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, an 11-term lawmaker ...
Was the ban a Muslim ban – or was that just an anti-Trump narrative? A political scientist combs through the data for answers. (By Vahid Niayesh, The Conversation) Did President Donald Trump’s travel ban – ...
President Trump will get his wish when Democrats hold a House impeachment vote this Thursday. In a move made to counter President Trump’s arguments that the House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation is illegitimate, House Speaker ...
Hydraulic fracturing, savior or sin? That depends on who you ask. The fossil fuel industry and its proponents tout fracking’s economic benefits as this oil and gas extraction technique has led the march toward the ...
California is once again battling wildfires across the state as the Kincade Fire rages on in Northern California and the Getty Fire erupted Monday morning in the Los Angeles hills. With over a dozen wildfires ...
The Bring Assange Home Parliamentary Group currently comprises 11 MPs from across party lines. Most of them have argued that the extradition of Assange would be an attack on Australia’s sovereignty. (By Peoples Dispatch) The ...
“On behalf of every Muslim I know…every Muslim watching…good riddance to Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.” The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a US operation in northern Syria on Saturday night only ...
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