USA

William Barr’s Trump book: Self-serving narratives and tricky truths ignored

Mar 09, 2022 07:10

William Barr, the two-time US Attorney General portrays himself as a bulwark against his former boss, Donald Trump – but his accounts are highly selective.
West, the true beginner of war in Ukraine

Mar 09, 2022 06:57

The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which was formed on Ukrainian soil in May 2014 and has been heavily armed by the United States ever since, is among the extremist groups that, apart from torturing and killing local residents and militia forces in the autonomous oblasts of Ukraine, is engaged in illegal organ trade, drug trafficking, and attacks on ethnic minorities.
Trump’s private schedule reveals no plans for him to join 6 January march

Mar 07, 2022 12:30

Ex-President Donald Trump said he would join crowd to US Capitol but his schedule indicates he deliberately lied to his supporters.
Matt Gaetz challenged by TV anchor after saying Trump won 2020 election

Mar 07, 2022 12:22

In United States, a television news anchor in Pensacola, Florida, challenged Representative Matt Gaetz on Friday (Mar. 04) over his claims that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.
C.I.A. black sites are state secrets, the Supreme Court rules

Mar 07, 2022 12:14

The Supreme Court on Thursday (Mar. 03) shut down efforts by a detainee at Guantánamo Bay to obtain information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him, ruling that the inquiry would impermissibly expose state secrets.
Ukraine crisis highlights West’s hypocrisy over Israeli regime’s land theft

Mar 05, 2022 16:45

The sudden concern for international law regarding Ukraine is nowhere to be found when it comes to Israeli regime’s illegal occupation and annexation of Palestinian and Syrian land, and its imposition of an apartheid regime on the entire Palestinian people – a crime against humanity.
Roger Stone raged at ‘disgrace’ Trump over failure to overturn election

Mar 05, 2022 05:46

Roger Stone, a close Donald Trump ally, raged at the former US president in the aftermath of the failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election, telling a friend that Trump was a “disgrace” who would go to prison and adding: “He betrayed everybody.”
US double standards on Ukraine war are hard to stomach

Mar 04, 2022 11:55

US President Joe Biden’s insistence that “we stand for freedom” is contradicted by his administration’s support for brutal dictatorships in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere.
So this is what it looks like when the corporate media opposes a war

Mar 03, 2022 14:55

Major American media outlets oppose military aggression...unless the United States is doing it.
California debates naming heatwaves to underscore deadly risk of extreme heat

Mar 03, 2022 14:52

Though the impact is already being felt, heatwaves are largely silent killers. Often, the toll is tallied far into the aftermath of an event and is vastly undercounted. Unlike fires and floods that produce immediate and visible destruction, heat’s harmful effects can seem more subtle – even if they are in fact more deadly.