Tag: children
Research finds high levels of lead in children’s fast fashion
A landmark study revealed that every single children’s shirt tested from major fast-fashion and discount retailers exceeded the U.S. federal lead limit of 100 parts per million (ppm).
Children hospitalized after ICE flash-bangs strike family van in Minneapolis
Parents say federal agents fired flash-bang munitions and tear gas into their vehicle during protests, sending three children to the hospital and intensifying scrutiny of Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The hidden crisis: How America fails to protect its children
From child labor to trafficking—and even foster care, sports, and detention—institutions meant to protect children often cause the greatest harm.
Doctors say Israeli troops deliberately targeted Gaza children
International physicians describe treating more than 100 Palestinian children shot in the head or chest in what they call evidence of war crimes.
Illegitimate power, illegitimate violence: How nations are built on the backs...
True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.
Israel’s scholasticide and the irrelevance of US politics: 11,923 Palestinian...
“With more than 80 percent of schools in Gaza damaged or destroyed, it may be reasonable to ask if there is an intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system, an action known as ‘scholasticide.'”
Over 25,000 children dead or injured in six-month siege amidst ongoing...
The scars of conflict are not only physical but also deeply psychological.
Over 12,300 children perish as war outpaces global conflict toll
"The impact on children is unprecedented and devastating. This war has become a war on their futures."
Rising child fatalities in Gaza amid starvation and medical shortages
Amidst the rubble of conflict, Gaza's youngest bear the brunt of an escalating humanitarian crisis, with malnutrition and lack of medical aid claiming innocent lives.
The ignored crisis: How American children are paying the ultimate price...
In a nation that prides itself on protecting its young, alarming statistics reveal an 87% increase in gun-related child fatalities over the past decade.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.