Issues & Events
  • Robert mueller did not do his job

    Robert mueller did not do his job

    Jul 31, 2019 05:25

    The US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team found “substantial evidence” of the elements required to convict Trump of obstruction of justice. But, constrained by a Justice Department rule forbidding the indictment of a sitting president, Mueller’s report did not conclude whether Trump actually committed the crime.

  • Supreme Court approves construction of Trump’s border wall

    Supreme Court approves construction of Trump’s border wall

    Jul 31, 2019 05:20

    The United States Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court order postponing construction of the border wall with funds appropriated via declaration of national emergency.

  • US folly in Afghanistan and media complicity

    US folly in Afghanistan and media complicity

    Jul 31, 2019 05:07

    Washington is messing up the situation in Afghanistan when the only solution to unending war of the past 18 years is American withdrawal from this beleaguered South Asian country, where the US cannot win.

  • CIA invoking Wikileaks to push for expansion of Cold War era secrecy law

    CIA invoking Wikileaks to push for expansion of Cold War era secrecy law

    Jul 30, 2019 12:13

    Three decades ago, the CIA mobilized to protect itself from radical acts of transparency, and now, with the internet and organizations like WikiLeaks, it hopes to be able to further isolate and criminalize those who challenge it.

  • New captain for a sinking Britain

    New captain for a sinking Britain

    Jul 30, 2019 12:10

    The United Kingdom appears anything but united today, as the Scots and the Irish oppose the Brexit plan, while the new prime minister in London is adamant of leaving the European Union.

  • India’s vanishing nuclear scientists

    India’s vanishing nuclear scientists

    Jul 30, 2019 12:05

    Nuclear scientists were among the world’s most coveted assets during and after World War II, so much so that powerful nations engaged in a tug-of-war on the European playground to claim as many as possible.

  • Iran runs rings around British navy

    Iran runs rings around British navy

    Jul 30, 2019 11:59

    Drone footage of Iran’s detention of the British-flagged ship ‘Stena Impero’ for violating navigational rules in the Strait of Hormuz after colliding with a fishing trawler, brings into sharp focus the UK’s struggle to project power in foreign seas.

  • No longer credible, America’s fake military

    No longer credible, America’s fake military

    Jul 30, 2019 03:53

    A short time ago, US President Donald Trump threatened to obliterate Afghanistan with nuclear weapons stating that, at the last moment, he thought killing millions of innocent people might well be “wrong” in some way. Here is exactly what he said: “If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to kill 10 million people.

  • Killing Tariq: Why we must rethink the roots of Zionist settler violence

    Killing Tariq: Why we must rethink the roots of Zionist settler violence

    Jul 30, 2019 03:43

    The non-entity called Israel, which is led by the child-killer Benjamin Netanyahu and is in usurpation of the historical Islamic land of Palestine since 1948, continues to indulge in the most criminal ways to oppress and kill the sons of the soil.