Politics

“The Indonesian elite ensures that West Papua is relatively isolated from media scrutiny, access to international agencies and diplomats (even though many western states are well known to oppose any indigenous struggle for self-determination, given it would only raise questions about their own subjugated indigenous populations).”

There won’t be any winner in the trade war.

Criminal insanity in Washington is bipartisan.

Muhammad bin Salman is in a hurry to find something else for his kingdom to do for a living.

Columbia University psychology and psychiatry professor Carl Hart argues that people are dying because of ignorance, not because of opioids.

“President Obama always said he would let science — and not ideology — dictate policy, but in this case his administration is upholding a failed drug war approach instead of looking at real, existing evidence that marijuana has medical value.”

Bernie Sanders unveils bold plan to reform U.S. healthcare and address inequality.

Bernie Sanders focuses on the environmental issue of fracking this week while campaigning in New York and Pennsylvania.

The REINS (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) Act of 2017 has long been a legislative priority for Koch Industries.

The merchants of death know there’s money to be made from the ‘humanitarian interventions’ that will come out of a Clinton presidency, just as they’ve profited from Neocon wars under Republicans.