Tag: United States
Investigating a possible link between the cold murder cases in the Antelope Valley of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Aujay
Sprawling poppy fields, aerospace, and secret military bases, California’s Antelope Valley is known for these landmarks. Over the past decades, the Antelope Valley became...
Reckoning with the past is crucial to establishing greater effectiveness in the present
At their July 2004 state convention, the California State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) passed a resolution demanding that AFL-CIO leaders “clear the air” about AFL-CIO’s history of trying to undercut...
Though branded in Western media as a success story, Bangladesh shows eery parallels to Syria
In 2024, The Economist magazine named Bangladesh as its “country of the year,” stating that it had “improved the most” of any other country in the world over the previous 12 months.
The watershed event in...
On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by...
Tens of thousands of new and newly-unredacted documents related to the killings of JFK Jr, his brother RFK and Martin Luther King Jr have been released over the past week. While historians and journalists are still pouring over the files to see what new historical information can be learned from them...
U.S. democracy-promotion institutions were key to destroying any hope for democratic development in Haiti after the Cold War.
In 1986, when popular uprisings kicked out the nearly 29-year-long dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” the U.S. could have become a partner to improve liberty...
Greenland’s center-right, pro-business, opposition Demokraatit Party surprisingly won the most votes with 29.5% during March 11 parliamentary elections—a totally unexpected result as the island went to the polls amidst Donald Trump’s threats to take Greenland “one way or another.”
The Demokraatit Party was followed by the Naleraq Party (Breakpoint), which...
Ronald Reagan is heralded by conservatives today as a heroic figure who rejuvenated American society after the malaise of the 1970s.
Reagan’s worshippers, however, fail to acknowledge the rise of massive inequality in the 1980s, Reagan’s support for death squad operations in Central America, and the fact that Reagan only...
The Israeli government, with the full backing of the White House, has completely thrown out the January ceasefire and negotiations and resumed the genocidal bombing campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, which may be followed up by a full-scale ground invasion...
On a motorized float designed and built several weeks into the Trump administration for the Rose Monday celebration before Lent in Cologne (Köln), Germany, the likeness of President Donald Trump vividly illustrates what is becoming more of his view toward the world and toward citizens of the United States.
Trump Giving...
