USA

Biden hammers a $7 billion nail into Afghanistan’s coffin

Feb 25, 2022 16:35

Letting Afghanistan slide into total economic and social ruin will have devastating consequences.
Evictions in Sheikh Jarrah: If ‘housing is a human right’, whose rights really matter?

Feb 24, 2022 05:10

What unites all settler-colonial regimes, but particularly the U.S. and Israel, is the commonality of structural racism.
Biden administration goes all in for Saudis and Emiratis

Feb 24, 2022 05:05

Biden has become the third president to put royal ambitions before Yemeni lives. He and his officials should be held accountable for war crimes against Yemeni civilians.
US National Guard troops to be deployed in DC as trucker convoy protests loom

Feb 24, 2022 04:58

US protest to follow Canadian truckers’ demonstration against pandemic restrictions.
Hate crimes case in Arbery murder goes to jury

Feb 23, 2022 07:18

In the U.S., a federal prosecutor in the hate crimes trial for the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery told the jury in closing arguments on Monday (Feb. 21) that the defendants had targeted Mr. Arbery because of his race and did not help him after he was shot because they considered him to be “subhuman.”
Five ways AI is saving wildlife – from counting chimps to locating whales

Feb 23, 2022 07:11

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been identified as one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation, helping protect species around the world.
It’s Trump’s time to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Feb 22, 2022 17:45

A New York judge has ruled former US President Donald Trump will have to testify in his fraud investigation, leaving him sweating and his investors shaking their heads.
Documents reveal US gov’t spent $22m promoting anti-Russia narrative in Ukraine and abroad (2)

Feb 22, 2022 14:24

The National Endowment for Democracy can claim it is in the business of democracy promotion. In reality, it does anything but that, unless “democracy” is entirely synonymous with elite U.S. interests.
Central banks should be cautious in calibrating a response to inflation

Feb 21, 2022 12:32

In the US, where inflation is at its highest in four decades, the latest chatter on Wall Street is that the Federal Reserve will take every opportunity to raise interest rates between now and the end of the year, seven times in all.
Faith-based technology baffles devilish forces

Feb 21, 2022 12:21

According to reports, the Israelis are flabbergasted and scratching their heads, while their godfather, the super terrorist US, is as clueless as it was in July 2019 when Iranian defenses downed its most sophisticated and costliest drone that had tried to violate the Islamic Republic’s airspace.