“EVERY foreign military invasion and occupation of Haiti has brought nothing but pain and misery to our people,” said one Haitian-American critic. By BRETT WILKINS…
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“It’s foolish to put it on the roadway,” said one Houston-area resident. “We have accidents on a regular basis. Do they really want to have…
By JAKE JOHNSON Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that he is prepared to hold direct talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin amid mounting fears that…
BY ANDREA GERMANOS “Unless we receive substantial new funding immediately, mass starvation and famine will follow,” said the U.N. food program chief of the…
BY JULIA CONLEY “The global number of undernourished people could increase by eight to 13 million people in 2022 and 2023,” says a new…
By KENNY STANCIL To protest Moscow’s war on Ukraine, roughly 100 diplomats from countries around the globe walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the United Nations Human…
By DAVID HEARST Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is epoch-making, but not in the way the western powers understand it. Nothing less than three decades of US and western domination…
BY DR. JIM GREEN The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia…
By JULIA CONLEY With legislation to reduce childhood poverty and advance renewable energy stalled in Congress, the Biden administration is expected to request more than $770…
by MATTHEW GUARIGLIA, ANDREW CROCKER The Central Intelligence Agency has been collecting American’s private data without any oversight or even the minimal legal safeguards that apply to…
By ANDREA GERMANOS A series of Saudi-led airstrikes were blamed Friday for killing scores of people in Yemen as civilians, including children, continue to suffer deadly…
BY BRETT WILKINS “Give authorities secret, unaccountable hacking powers, and abuse is only a matter of time.” Digital privacy advocates were alarmed but not surprised…
By BRETT WILKINS “It’s just heartbreaking really to think he’s being rewarded for all the deaths that have happened. If he had any morals…
By JAKE JOHNSON The Los Angeles Police Department released video footage Monday showing the moment when an officer fatally shot 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta while firing three…
By BRETT WILKINS Amid historic and ever-increasing wage inequality and as a record number of U.S. jurisdictions are set to raise their minimum wages in 2022, Michigan food service…
By COMMON DREAMS STAFF Thousands of previously hidden Pentagon documents show that the US air wars in the Middle East have been marked by “deeply flawed…
by KENNY STANCIL More damning information about last week’s deadly workplace disaster at an Amazon building in Illinois emerged on Friday when a delivery driver shared records of…
By BRETT WILKINS “We have defeated Big Business and the right wing in their attempt to use… trumped-up charges against me personally in order…