USA

'Unfreeze Afghan funds' demanded after 13,000 newborns die from malnutrition

Mar 24, 2022 10:40

Human rights advocates are demanding that the United States immediately release billions of dollars which it seized from Afghanistan's Central Bank after ending its 20-year military occupation of the country last year, causing a devastating hunger crisis that has already killed thousands of Afghan newborns in 2022.
US military budget is more outrageous than ever

Mar 23, 2022 04:53

American families are fearful for their economic security. The pandemic hasn't yet ended, schools and hospitals face ongoing staffing shortages, and the opioid epidemic is raging. Increasing military spending does nothing to address these problems.
Declassified docs show CIA used prisoner as a torture training prop

Mar 23, 2022 04:45

Twenty years later, none of those responsible for the CIA's heinous regime of torture were ever prosecuted.
Let's just say it very clearly: The US Supreme Court is corrupt

Mar 21, 2022 15:57

Public outrage is building: the Court's approval rating is now around 40%—Congress needs to act, before an entire branch of government sinks into an irredeemable Trump-fueled muck of corruption.
The expendable Americans in a pandemic

Mar 21, 2022 15:54

Every day, more than 1,000 Americans are still dying of COVID.
As COVID cases surge in Europe, US defunds pandemic response

Mar 21, 2022 15:48

The White House has recently announced that it will be scaling back public health measures to fight the COVID-19 virus despite surging infections rates elsewhere in the world and critics who say that it is much too premature to act as though the pandemic is over.
Occupy-style protest in Boise highlights brutal conditions faced by the unhoused in the US

Mar 20, 2022 17:28

The injustice of homelessness — a human rights crisis of immense proportions in the United States — is on stark display in Idaho’s modestly sized capital of Boise, just as it is across the nation.
Extradition looms for Assange after UK Supreme Court refuses to hear his appeal

Mar 20, 2022 17:13

The British judicial system has erected still another barrier to Julian Assange’s freedom. On March 14, the U.K. Supreme Court refused to hear Assange’s appeal of the U.K. High Court’s ruling ordering his extradition to the United States.
Western US’s worst drought in 1,200 years brings year-long fire season

Mar 19, 2022 20:41

Winter wildfires by the names of Emerald and Airport have scorched thousands of acres in California; led to the destruction of over 100 structures in Kansas; and amid this writing, prompted the evacuation of 1,100 houses in the Florida Panhandle — at a time of year when those with intimate knowledge of the cycles of burning and regeneration once relied on wetter and cooler conditions to keep blazes at bay.
US sewer data and surges abroad should remind us the pandemic isn’t over

Mar 19, 2022 05:59

The method of testing wastewater to detect virus levels within a whole population has been around since the days of polio, but it took a March 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 in Austria to turn the technique into a mainstay in the pandemic fight.