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Wife and son ‘dumped American man with dementia in UK car park’
An American man with dementia was flown from his Los Angeles home to Britain and allegedly left in a car park by his wife and son, according to court documents in the US seen by the BBC. Roger Curry, 76, was allegedly abandoned without identification in t ...[Read more]
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Top Trump Official John Kelly Ordered ICE to Portray Immigrants as Criminals to Justify Raids
Earlier this month, The Intercept published a cache of internal emails exchanged between Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Texas in February, while the first mass raids of the Trump administration were underway. The redacted emails, obtaine ...[Read more]
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Koch Brothers’€™ Internal Strategy Memo on Selling Tax Cuts: Ignore The Deficit
The Intercept obtained a messaging memo from the Koch brothers’ network on how to sell tax reform legislation. The memo went out to members of the network of likeminded Republican donors, which includes dozens of wealthy investors and business executive ...[Read more]
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The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms
FBI AGENTS ARE devoting substantial resources to a multistate hunt for two baby piglets that the bureau believes are named Lucy and Ethel. The two piglets were removed over the summer from the Circle Four Farm in Utah by animal rights activists who had en ...[Read more]
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When Community College Is Free
Does free community college work? An experiment in Chicago suggests that the answer is yes. Two years ago, under a program called the Star Scholarship, Chicago began to offer free community college to all public high school graduates who earned a B averag ...[Read more]
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Free Passage Deal For ISIS In Raqqa – U.S. Denies Involvement – Video Proves It Lies
After free passage negotiations with the U.S. and its Kurdish proxy forces, ISIS is moving its fighters out of Raqqa city. When the Syrian government reached similar agreements the U.S. childishly criticized it. The U.S. coalition claims that it was "not ...[Read more]
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Russian MoD Delegation Traveling to UN Headquarters Denied US Entry Visas
Members of a delegation from the Russian Defense Ministry were not issued visas to enter the US to take part in a joint Russian-Chinese military conference at UN headquarters in New York, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Alexander Yemelyanov says. ...[Read more]
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Age, race, education – no matter how you slice it, wealth inequality in the US is astronomical
Wealth inequality is basically the same everywhere. The top 10 percent tends to own around 70 percent of the wealth. The next 10 percent tends to own around 10 to 15 percent of the wealth. And everyone else in a particular group owns a relatively negligib ...[Read more]
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Sanders: To Lift Outrageous Burden of Student Debt, Implement Tuition-Free College for All
In order to lift the burden of debt on millions of students and unleash the potential of current and futute generations, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declared on Tuesday night that the time is now "to make public colleges and universities tuition free" in ...[Read more]
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Elites Have No Credibility Left: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges
In an article published in Truthdig September 17, titled “The Silencing of Dissent,” Hedges referenced the WSWS coverage of Google’s censorship of left-wing sites and warned about the growth of “blacklisting, censorship and slandering dissidents a ...[Read more]
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The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
An important and groundbreaking new book coming out in January digs deep into this manufactured mythology surrounding King, Parks, and other figures and movements. It is called “A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights ...[Read more]
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