Posts

Showing posts from 2018

Hilton Hotel fires two employees who called police on black guest

Greece child protection services 'disjointed and inadequate'

Thailand to Legalize Same-Sex Civil Unions

Wells Fargo to pay $575 million in settlement with U.S. states

Germany Closes Its Last Black Coal Mine

Germany’s Electricity 38% Renewable in 2018, more than Coal for 1st Time

Stax Records President Al Bell Honors Aretha Franklin, a Lost Icon in 2018

Sex Ed Programs Face Anti-LGBTQ BacklashE

School Employee Sues District for Israel Loyalty Oath in Contract

Egyptian forces 'kill 40' in response to tourist bus attack

Remember: Christ was a Palestinian refugee

Richard Wolff: We Need a More Humane Economic System (VIDEO)

Cold War Radar System a Trillion Dollar Fraud – Lester Earnest on RAI

$800M in Taxpayer Money Went to Funding For-Profit Immigrant Prisons in 2018

France World Cup winner donates winnings to charity

Japan to Resume Killing Whales, Ignoring International Ban

Angela Davis on Running from the FBI, Lessons from Prison and How Aretha Franklin Got Her Free (VIDEO)

Doctors' strike continues in Sudan as protests enter eighth day

Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat vows to donate his entire fortune

Jemele Hill has no regrets about calling Trump a white supremacist

The Real Problem Is the US-Saudi Relationship, Not Just Crown Prince MBS

We're Learning the Truth About Voter Fraud

Italy's Mount Etna erupts, authorities close airport

Protesters in France call for closure of Generation Identity bar

Noam Chomsky: Social media outlets have 'become major forces for undermining democracy'

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

‘It’s worse than murder’: how rural America became a hospital desert

'Then the sea came': Indonesian tsunami survivors recall ordeal

New Jersey referee suspended after forcing black wrestler to have haircut

SpaceX launches first US national security space mission

Iran says US presence in Syria 'wrong' from the start

Indigenous Nation Blocks TransCanada Pipeline with New Checkpoint

Fighting Rent-to-Own Racism This Christmas

Baghdad's Green Zone opens its gates to public after 15 years

Audrey Geisel, 97, Dies; Dr. Seuss’s Widow and Keeper of His Flame

Time to Get Out of Syria

Murder of Honduran teens highlight dangers for refugees at border

Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Furlough of Congressional Pay Next Shutdown

Trump Can and Should Be Indicted

Hungarians Rise up Against Anti-Worker ‘Slave Law’ and Growing Authoritarianism

This isn’t a bear market, we’re in a house of cards that the Fed built, says Peter Schiff

U.N. tells UK: Allow Assange to leave Ecuador embassy freely

Trump is doing ‘the bidding of Russia’ and Putin is openly thanking him

Pentagon chief Mattis quits, cites policy differences with Trump

Former Blackwater Security Guard Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder

Deadly pesticide found in temple food that killed 15 in India

Senate Passes Historic Criminal Justice Reform Legislation

Tense calm prevails in Yemen's Hodeidah as ceasefire holds

Marc Lamont Hill Speaks Out After CNN Fires Him for Pro-Palestine Speech at U.N. (VIDEO)

Why Trump’s Private Transactions Are Terrifying

The First Step Act Opens the Door to Digital Incarceration

James Comey slams Fox News reporter to her face for spreading Trump’s ‘nonsense’

William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85

Ralph Nader on Single Payer, Climate Devastation, Impeachment & Why Mulvaney Is a “Massive Outlaw” (VIDEO)

New York Governor Cuomo aims to legalize recreational marijuana use

Ex-FBI chief Comey says Trump undermines rule of law with 'lies'

Ex-CIA officer warns Russians aren’t just electing politicians but want to change America itself

Trump, the Quintessential American

Senate report on Russian meddling in 2016 election shows just how extensive the attack was

SNL roasts Trump with parody of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ where he was never president — and everyone is better off

George H. W. Bush’s War Crimes, from Iraq’s ‘Highway of Death’ to Panama

50,000 LA Teachers, Union Leaders and Students Join Protest, Accusing District of Hoarding Funds

Oliver Stone Remembers Anti-Imperialist Journalist William Blum, Chronicler of CIA Crimes

Donald Trump Is Under the Bus

Somali-American Amazon workers demand better conditions

A 'Vertical Forest' in Toronto

Texas Judge Strikes Down Obama’s Affordable Care Act as Unconstitutional

North Carolina Governor Vetoes Photo ID Bill

Why shaming your children on social media may make things worse

Oceans of garbage prompt war on plastics

Court Throws Out Pipeline Permit and Implores Forest Service to 'Speak for the Trees' Instead of Corporate Polluters

Senate Votes to End U.S. Involvement in 'Unauthorized War' in Yemen

7-Year-Old Child's 'Horrific' Death in DHS Custody Prompts Outrage

North and South Korea to hold rail reconnection ceremony

The GOP Tax Bill Is Creating Jobs—Just Not in the U.S.

Young Climate Activists Storm Capitol Hill Demanding A Green New Deal

Somali Fishermen Struggle to Compete with Foreign Vessels (VIDEO)

Yemen's warring parties agree to ceasefire in Hodeidah

Maria Butina pleads guilty to US charge of conspiring to act as foreign agent

Wisconsin GOP’s power grab is a danger to democracy

Spain announces huge minimum wage rise amid Catalonia tensions

Fossil-Free Costa Rica: How One Country Is Pursuing Decarbonization Despite Global Inaction (VIDEO)

Time Magazine honors Khashoggi and other journalists as Person of the Year

Canada’s genocide: The case of the Ahiarmiut

Sustainable Tree Farming Helps Heal Kenya

Strasbourg shooting: At least three dead, gunman at large

Faith Leaders Arrested Demanding Demilitarization of US Border

France’s Macron Makes Concessions while ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Continue

Stopping Corporate Exploitation in Prisons

Yellow Vests Protests Over Economic Frustration Rage on Across France

Cuba defends controversial arts decree but seeks consensus on norms

Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. Convicted of Murder

India's polluted air killed 1.24 million in 2017

Canada arrests CFO of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei

Virginia Tech Students Unveil the House of the Future (VIDEO)

6 US senators introduce resolution blaming Saudi Crown Prince for Khashoggi murder

Australian scientists develop '10-minute' cancer test

Modi’s India is a living nightmare for Muslims

How Would Mother Jones Eulogize George H.W. Bush?

Republicans were upset about election fraud — before it threatened their candidate

Amazon Robot Sets Off Bear Spray, Sending 24 Workers to Hospital

How a North Carolina election fraud investigation is holding up a congressional seat

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Defends Amazon Deal at Sanders Event

Sean Penn producing 'Khashoggi murder film' in Istanbul

Jay-Z’s $200-million clothing battle could be game changer for black lawyers the world over

Waymo unveils self-driving taxi service in Arizona for paying customers

Museum of Black Civilisations aims to 'decolonise knowledge'

The GOP Is Scared of Democracy. Just Look at Wisconsin.

France's Yellow Vest movement strikes a victory for working people across the EU

Philippines' Duterte: 'Kill those useless bishops'

Mexico's Lopez Obrador throws down gauntlet to oil majors

Wisconsin GOP Rams Through 'Lame Duck Legislative Coup'

Amid Middle East Realignment & Saudi Blockade, Qatar Withdraws from OPEC

The Film the Israel Lobby Does Not Want You to See

George H.W. Bush Empowered Atrocity Abroad and Fascists at Home

'This Is a Coup': Protests Engulf Wisconsin Capitol

Senate Advances Bill to End U.S. Support for Illegal War in Yemen (VIDEO)

Another 'Violent, Destructive' Assault on Marine Life With Seismic Testing Approval

China and Argentina sign currency swap deal after G20 summit

New leftist Mexico president slams ‘pillaging’ elites in fiery first speech

Stunned Parisians clean up posh central district after worst riots since 1968

The US Criminal “Injustice” System

Iran says it will continue missile tests after U.S. allegation

George H.W. Bush: The Last WASP President

Thomas Farr Goes Down After Grassroots Uproar Forces Tim Scott to Reject "Dangerous" Nominee

French President Emmanuel Macron leads crisis meeting in Paris

NAFTA 2.0 Signed: A Deal for 'The Corporate One Percent'

CNN fires contributor Marc Lamont Hill for criticising Israel

US Bombing Kills 30 Civilians in Afghanistan as US-Led War Enters its 18th Year

Cornel West Responds to CNN Firing Marc Lamont Hill

Democrats Elect 'Big Money' Centrist Hakeem Jeffries Over Barbara Lee for Caucus Chair

How Salvation Army’s red kettles became a Christmas tradition

Senate Advances War Powers Resolution to End US Complicity in Saudi Assault on Yemen

Moscow & NATO Playing a ‘Dangerous Tit-For-Tat Game’ in the Ukraine

Divest to Decolonize

Julian Assange sends his cat away to safety with family members

Black Pete is 'Dutch racism in full display'

When you’re grateful, your brain becomes more charitabl

The rise of hipster colonialism

U.S. Prisons Have a Mental Health Crisis (VIDEO)

'No to the murderer': More protests in Tunisia against MBS visit

Soros foundation to close in Turkey after attack by Erdogan

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism

Noam Chomsky: Members of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S.

What Comes After the Tear Gas?

Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci dies aged 77

Iran's Rouhani calls Israel a 'cancerous tumor', in rare outburst

Beyond the Bake Sale: Corporate Tax Cuts Leave Public Schools Desperate

More Proud Boys charged for Manhattan riot — including secret unnamed indictments

I’ve Been in Prison for 24 Years and I Feel Dead

France agrees to return 26 African artworks claimed by Benin

Take a Moment to Thank Your Food

Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 103

French postal workers help lonely older people

Wildfire smoke is becoming a nationwide health threat

The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter

Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack George Soros

Last survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot — and the first black woman to join the Coast Guard — dies at 103

Noam Chomsky scorches ‘criminally insane’ Trump administration

Solid State Flight: Ionic Wind Plane Flies 60 Meters With No Moving Parts

30,000 casualties take toll on Afghan forces

Gerry Adams given permission to appeal against 1970s convictions

'We Are Not Robots': Amazon Workers Across Europe Walk Out on Black Friday

Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists

EU says transparent, credible investigation into Khashoggi killing not completed yet

Dolce & Gabbana dumped by Chinese online retailers over racist ads & posts

Students Outraged at Confederate Banner at Miami-Dade Charter School

Facebook Admits Hiring GOP Operatives to Dig Up Dirt on Critics—Including George Soros

Atlanta cops arrest man for crazed anti-Semitic rant on airplane

Don't Trash Thanksgiving. Decolonize It

Stunning Investigation Exposes Israel’s Secretive Assassination Program (VIDEO)

Amazon Gets $3 Billion in NY Tax Breaks While Underfunded Public Transport Enters ‘Death Spiral’

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes ‘reluctantly’ quits after news that FBI considers them ‘extremists’

South Korea closes biggest dog slaughterhouse complex

Sears Bankruptcy Engineered to Benefit Executives

HUD’s Inspection System Fails Low-Income Tenants Nationwide

Central Americans with disabilities seek compassion at US border

Mohammed bin Salman and a murderous web of lies

Two Weeks Later, the Only Black Republican Woman in Congress Loses Her Seat

Libya uses tear gas, rubber bullets to force migrants off ship

Oregon Officials Call for Changes of Laws on Criminally Insane

ICE Holds Record Number of Immigrants, Including 14,000 Children

Jar wars: the Italian plot to weaken Nutella

Sears Bankruptcy Engineered to Benefit Executives and Stiff Workers

How the Incas governed, thrived and fell without alphabetic writing

Inside the White Supremacist Movement That Fueled Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (VIDEO)

U.S. judge strikes down Mississippi ban on abortions after 15 weeks

Farmer Turns Over 100 Turkeys to Animal Rights Group

Thousands evacuated as Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts

Five people shot in Downtown Denver — one pronounced dead

Stacey Abrams: The Exit Interview

Prisoners Are Being Paid $1 an Hour to Battle the Deadly Fires of California

‘Insane’ California Air Topped World Health Standard by 60 Times

The US Contributes to the Death of Every Child in Yemen': Sen. Chris Murphy

French protesters rail against Macron's fuel taxes with road blocks

India building city from scratch to challenge Singapore & Hong Kong financial hubs

Remembering Stan Lee

C.I.A. Concludes That Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killed

Chuck Schumer, Feckless Hack

Shanghai ‘earthscraper’: World’s 1st underground hotel opens in China inside abandoned quarry

Stacey Abrams admits defeat in hard-fought Georgia governor race

Nancy Pelosi and Democrats Consider Making Their Own Agenda Impossible to Pass

The ‘Blue Wave’ Was Also a ‘Muslim Wave’

Month-Long Student Strike Paralyzes Colombia’s Public Universities

The ‘Pelosi Problem’ Runs Deep

Saudis shield crown prince as death penalty sought over Khashoggi murder

Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing

Pelosi’s fate up in the air as band of Democrats push for new speaker

Trump-appointed judge forces White House to reinstate press pass of CNN’s Jim Acosta

Toxic herbicide found in many Texans' drinking water

George W. Bush Accepts Prestigious Liberty Award With Bloody Hands

Fox News files amicus brief on behalf of CNN’s Acosta — and calls out ‘antagonistic’ Trump

Amazon HQ2 Won’t Improve Quality of Life for New York and Virginia Residents

Remembering Jemel Roberson, 26-Year-Old Chicago Security Guard Slain by Police (VIDEO)

Sears Is Not a Failure

Open Society Denounces Facebook's Dirty Tricks as 'Dangerous' Threat to Democracy

'Africa's fastest train' steams ahead in Morocco

Beto O’Rourke’s Lasting Legacy

How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town

California wildfires: 'If this town recovers, it will take years'

The $6 Trillion Price Tag of Endless US War

Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal

Federal judge says US election system is “the laughing stock of the world.”

General Admits Intimidating Court into Imprisoning Lula da Silva

7 resignations and counting: May’s government ‘falling apart before our eyes’ over Brexit deal

Pentagon Fails Audit

Democrat Jared Golden Is “Apparent Winner” of Maine Congressional Seat

Texas education board moves to reinsert Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller into curriculum

Thais outraged by child boxer's death in ring

White women wear hoodies to prove policy targets black people

Firefighters battle blazes on two fronts in California, 50 dead

Veterans Resist: Deploying Art to Oppose Militarism

Time for Medicare for All

Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners

Empire Files: Mass Shootings & White Nationalism Share Roots

Save Us, Al Gore

The Real Florida Recount Fraud

Hillary Clinton: Stacey Abrams would've already won ‘if she'd had a fair election'

US judge delays certification of Georgia election results

Amazon Is Everything That's Wrong With America

Physicians Work to Bring Back the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Youth Climate Activists Arrested in Pelosi's Office Demanding Democrats Embrace 'Green New Deal'

CNN sues President Trump and top White House aides for barring Jim Acosta

Paradise Lost

Crucifying Julian Assange

Outrage over Amazon's corporate bribery

Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?

Why is India 'Hinduizing' cities' Muslim names?

Stan Lee dies at 95

French President Macron Praises Nazi-Collaborating Leader, Whitewashing World War I Bloodbath

100 years of women's suffrage in Germany: A long road ahead

'Profoundly dismayed': Amnesty strips Suu Kyi of top honour

Black security guard stops shooter in a bar — then gets gunned down by cop

Italy hosts international Libya summit to end crisis

Angela Merkel and the future of the EU

From shell-shock to PTSD, a century of invisible war traum

Republican concedes in Arizona — Dems pick up Jeff Flake’s senate seat

Comic book genius Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, dies at 95

Here’s Why the Georgia Governor’s Race Is Far From Over

Israel kills seven Palestinians in covert Gaza raid

Macron Delivers Rebuke to Nationalism as Trump Looks On

World's first AI news anchor unveiled in China

Are anti-gay witch hunts really protecting 'African values'?

Arizona Senate race no longer ‘too close to call’ as Democrat Kyrsten Sinema expands lead to more than 30,000 votes

WATCH thousands of far-right marchers light a SEA OF FLARES in Poland as police look on

Sam Donaldson unloads on Trump’s ‘small base’: They don’t run this country — ‘and they never will’

George W. Bush Started an Immoral War. Now He's Getting the Liberty Medal

WTF White Women?

Gillum retracts concession in Florida governor's race

Florida orders vote recount in Senate, governor races

Pro-Putin GOP congressman Dana Rohrabacher officially loses his seat

Georgia Voter Purge Victim: “This Was a Strategy From Kemp”

Rouhani says new U.S. sanctions have no effect on Iran economy

The Senate Is an Institutional Barrier to Democracy

US Navy Ignored Sinking Ship as Migrants Drowned and Screamed for Help

For Georgia and Florida, Midterm Election Counts Continue

Half Million Killed by America's Global War on Terror 'Just Scratches the Surface' of Human Destruction

US ends Saudi-UAE refuelling support in Yemen genocide

San Francisco homeless tax measure to raise $300 million a year

Federal judge blocks Keystone XL pipeline

US 'war on terror' has killed over half a million people

Louisiana Votes to Eliminate Jim Crow Jury Law

Democratic Women Help Seize House & 7 Governorships in Historic Midterm (VIDEO)

Fair Voting Results in GOP Losses