As the genocide of Palestinians continues with daily massacres of scores, sometimes hundreds, of starving people being targeted and killed by the Israeli military as they come to attempt to get food, another ship of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, the Handala, is sailing to bring attention to the criminal actions of the...
Voters then, too, were faced with the choice of two corporate-backed candidates promoting regressive economic policies
In 1924, at least, there was a genuinely progressive third candidate, Robert La Follette
The 1924 U.S. election was not much better than 2024’s. In both cases, the Republican and Democratic Party candidates had deep...
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has brought greater global attention to the plight of Palestinians, a huge number of whom have been refugees since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 when they were expelled from their land in what is known as the Nakba.
The brutal Israeli...
134 people have died and 101 remain missing after the Guadalupe River in central Texas overflowed as a result of 6.5 inches of rain falling over the course of three hours on the morning of July 4th...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is perhaps the most well-known Soviet dissident. He was the author of The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume work originally published in 1973 which significantly turned international public opinion against the Soviet Union.
Described by Canadian psychologist and right-wing media personality Jordan Peterson as the most important book of...
In early July, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, issued a damning report detailing how large corporations profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and genocide in Gaza that has taken place since...
Important Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world.- Albert Camus
There is the American official story regarding Srebrenica. In addition to that story, any descriptions, explanations and/or fiction have not only been allowed but encouraged. Anything but the truth!
From sinister...
From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government headed by Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed insurgency and large-scale pitched battles, sieges and counter-sieges in and around major Syrian cities such as Aleppo and Damascus. During that time, agents of U.S. diplomacy, soft power, defense and...
The Supreme Court of Justice upheld the sentence against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) of six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office. The case involves fraudulent administration regarding the awarding of 51 road-construction projects in the southern province of Santa Cruz.
The first striking detail...
Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill has passed and been signed into law. What the White House has deemed an “historic” bill is actually the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the United States, benefiting the already-wealthy with massive tax breaks and devastating cuts to social programs...