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In Leaked Video, GOP Congressman Admits His Party Wants ‘Chaos and Inability to Get Stuff Done’
Newly leaked video footage of a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices shows Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas openly admitting that his party wants "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done" as President Joe Biden, ...[Read more]
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Venezuela’s Gangs Have Been Turned into Armed Capitalist Enterprises (Part II)
n July, security forces carried out a three-day anti-gang operation in the Cota 905 barrio of Caracas after an uptick in violence in the working-class district. The Gran Cacique Indio Guacaipuro Operation, which caught the headlines of the global media, i ...[Read more]
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Public Transport Can Be Free
According to Vincent Kauffmann, a professor at University of Lausanne and one of key figures in sustainable mobility, “free public transport does not make any sense.” Getting rid of tickets in mass transit is judged “irrational,” “uneconomical� ...[Read more]
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Sri Lanka raids private warehouses after declaring a state of emergency due to food shortages
Sri Lankan government raided private warehouses outside capital Colombo to seize thousands of tonnes of sugar last week. The raids came a day after the country declaring a state of emergency due to food shortages. ...[Read more]
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How the US is facing its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War
"The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the co ...[Read more]
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‘Reckless’: Doctors Without Borders Slams US for Hoarding 500 Million Vaccine Doses
"The U.S. must immediately make public and concrete commitments to redistribute excess Covid-19 vaccines globally if it truly wants to end this pandemic." ...[Read more]
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How The US Got Beaten In Its Own Game In Ukraine: The Full Story
It was supposed to be simple – the US was going to apply the Afghanistan playbook in Ukraine against Russia. It was going to bog it down in a low-level conflict that would starve it of money and resources. It would strain the Russian society and it woul ...[Read more]
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WikiLeaks cables and the Iraq War – Salon.com
Wikileaks caused Iraqi government to change mind about letting U.S. troops stay in iraq. After leaked cables showed that u.s. troops have executed iraqi civilians, including a 70 year old woman and an infant, making it close to impossible reaching an agre ...[Read more]
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US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted
"A new U.S. survey sponsored by the American Assembly has revealed that piracy is both common and accepted. The surveys findings show that 46% of adults and 75% of young people have bought, copied, or downloaded some copyright infringing material. 70% of ...[Read more]
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Are rich people less moral ?
Curious results from University of California, Berkeley shows that, rich/privileged people are more likely to behave in immoral manners compared to lower socioeconomic classes. Observers of human nature have long puzzled over the possibility of an ethica ...[Read more]
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New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Push Genetically Engineered Crops Worldwide
Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the US effort to push foreign governments to approve genetically engineered (GE) crops and promote the worldwide interests of agribusiness ...[Read more]
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