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‘Stop Blocking Global Covid Vaccines’: Protests Greet Merkel’s White House Visit
Ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to the U.S. later this week, public health campaigners on Tuesday floated a large banner in front of the White House calling on the European leader to "stop blocking global Covid vaccines," a reference to h ...[Read more]
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‘Which Side Are You On?’: Poor People’s Campaign Pressures US Senate on Democracy and Justice
Beginning with a "massive national call-in to every U.S. senator," the Poor People's Campaign on Monday launched a monthlong campaign to push Congress to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster, pass the For the People Act, restore the gutted Voting Rights Act, ...[Read more]
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Suspects in Assassination of Haitian President Had Ties to U.S. Law Enforcement
More information is emerging about the suspects involved in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Mose last week. At least one of two Haitian Americans arrested was an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA. Other suspect ...[Read more]
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Trump’s DOJ attempted to seize records of WaPo journalist over report Russian leaks: report
The Trump-led U.S. Department of Justice attempted to seize communication records for three Washington Post by way of legal action as a response to their reports on Russian interference, unsealed court documents reveal.According to Axios, the latest repor ...[Read more]
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Trump Supporters’ Anti-Science Crusade Is Threatening Us All
The number of new COVID-19 infections in the country topped 26,500 yesterday, a two-week increase of 111 percent. Experts broadly agree the reasons behind this new infection spike are twofold: (1) The Delta variant of COVID is highly infectious and on the ...[Read more]
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‘Time for a Revolution in Public Education’: Bowman Unveils Green New Deal for US Schools
Democratic congressman and longtime educator Jamaal Bowman unveiled legislation Thursday morning that would invest $1.43 trillion over 10 years in transforming the nation's public schools in line with what experts say is needed to combat the climate emerg ...[Read more]
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‘This Summit Was a Failure’: Biden-Merkel Meeting Ends With No Deal on Vaccine Patent Waiver
The brief bilateral summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended Thursday without any commitment from the European leader to drop her opposition to a temporary patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a result ...[Read more]
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Afghan activist: George W. Bush’s claim US war in Afghanistan protected women is a shameless lie
As the United States continues to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan after 20 years of war and occupation, the Taliban say they now control most Afghan territory, surrounding major population centers and holding more than two-thirds of Afghanistan's bor ...[Read more]
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US Concern for Cuba, Latin America is Spin for Intervention
The US government says it is going to help Central America fight corruption, will combat the “root causes” of migration in Mexico and Central America, and it wants to help the Cuban people with freedom too. But the US’s domestic and foreign track re ...[Read more]
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How Patrick Buchanan’s 1992 campaign became the blueprint for Trumpism: conservative
When Donald Trump defeated all of the other Republican candidates in the 2016 GOP presidential primary and went on to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general election — even though he lost the popular vote — one of the people who was ...[Read more]
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Report: Ex-Wife of Trump Org Exec Says Trump Is Involved in Tax Avoidance Scheme
Jennifer Weisselberg, the former daughter-in-law to the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, reportedly told investigators last month that she and her now-ex-husband had received perks in lieu of compensation from the company, ...[Read more]
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