Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Tag: human rights

In Syria, endgame or war without end?

"...the administration has redefined its goals to include the exit of all Iranian military and proxy forces from Syria, and establishment of a stable, nonthreatening government acceptable to all Syrians and the international community."

From peace to Armageddon

The Israel-Palestine nightmare.

Flint water crisis ongoing: ‘We are still suffering’

"Four years later, my son, for example, we still can't safely use our water, he can't take a bath without telling me it burns."

What a society designed for well-being looks like

Economic justice goes a long way toward improving mental health up and down the socioeconomic ladder.

The US need not inevitably descend into violent chaos if and...

It’s not too late to begin building a new politics designed to allow us as a people to respond to these crises in a constructive way.

A power more supreme than any judge

What matters most is not who is sitting on the Supreme Court, but who is “sitting in” and who is marching outside the Supreme Court, pushing for change.

As months pass in Chicago shelters, immigrant children contemplate escape, even...

Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors.

Why defending indigenous rights is integral to fighting climate change

Climate change isn't just a scientific issue – it's an issue of racial inequity, economic inequity and cultural genocide.

Women’s March determined to disrupt Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, dozens arrested

“Women are disrupting this hearing today because our lives are at risk."

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Trump has created speech and thought crimes with NSPM-7 and Pam Bondi is ready...

How NSPM-7 and a DOJ directive lay the groundwork for criminalizing dissent and protected speech

Netanyahu ties Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre to Australia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood

As Australia mourned a deadly antisemitic attack that killed 16 people, critics accused the Israeli prime minister of exploiting tragedy to attack Palestinian self-determination.

Trump brands fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ as offshore killings escalate

An executive order reviving WMD language coincides with deadly US strikes at sea, prompting warnings of illegal force, mission creep, and echoes of Iraq-era justifications.

Will ambushed voters be so repulsed by MAGA’s war against America—systemic reform looks good?

Could tycoons not do any better than the farcical, dishonest Keystone Kops klutzes—Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Patel, Noem, Bondi, Ludnick and RFK Jr.?

The Trump corollary

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Madur