USA

GOP law blamed as nearly 40% of mail-in ballots rejected in Houston area

Feb 18, 2022 05:25

As early voting continues in Texas' primary election, pro-democracy advocates are sounding the alarm over the high rate at which mail-in ballots are being rejected as a result of the GOP's newly enacted voter suppression law.
Biden’s decision on frozen Afghanistan money is tantamount to mass murder

Feb 18, 2022 05:18

Biden is crushing the Afghan economy by seizing $3.5 billion of its people’s money and diverting the other $3.5 billion for a trust fund “to benefit the Afghan people.”
60 years of war-making may yet result in the destruction of US democracy (1)

Feb 18, 2022 05:07

All those trillions of dollars consumed in wasteful wars have helped foster a creeping pessimism in Americans—a pessimism spawned by corporate elites increasingly consumed by greed.
Biden commits a grave injustice against the Afghan people

Feb 17, 2022 14:59

This is theft on a massive scale, and it is being done at a time when Afghanistan desperately needs an infusion of funds.
New study says US west ‘megadrought’ is worst in at least 1,200 years

Feb 17, 2022 14:57

Researchers say human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead.
'Nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war,' says Edward Snowden

Feb 16, 2022 13:47

Exiled American whistleblower Edward Snowden recently joined global critics who are decrying news outlets for encouraging war with their coverage of rising tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine.
Having learned nothing from 900,000 deaths, US Governors lift mask mandates

Feb 16, 2022 13:42

Capitalism cannot be allowed to drive the bus when it comes to dealing with this, or any pandemic.
Ilhan Omar blasts 'unconscionable' Biden plan to seize Afghan assets

Feb 15, 2022 16:14

As U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar led condemnation of a reported Biden administration plan to permanently seize $7 billion of currently frozen Afghan assets and distribute half to relatives of 9/11 victims, advocates pointed to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and urged President Joe Biden to change course.
How US meddling split Sudan, creating an oil republic drowning in poverty and conflict

Feb 15, 2022 05:25

Following decades of US soft power aid interventions to exploit South Sudan’s energy reserves, the republic is trapped in humanitarian crisis.
Amnesty Apartheid report: How Zionist regime is using Google Ads to whitewash its record

Feb 14, 2022 11:38

Accusing anyone who criticizes the Zionist regime of being anti-Semitic is a classic propaganda technique, one designed to induce guilt and to silence those calling out the regime’s human rights abuses.