Tag: human rights
UN climate expert urges criminalization of fossil fuel disinformation to protect...
The report presents the human rights argument for decisive political action to reduce the devastating impacts of the climate crisis.
What will it take to end Trump’s ICE raids?
Our reliance on armed agents of the state has led to fascism. The only way out is to abolish policing and militarism.
Israel accused of using aid as bait as over 300 Palestinians...
Palestinians seeking flour and water have become targets, with Israeli forces killing hundreds at so-called humanitarian aid points backed by the U.S.
LA under siege: Trump sends in National Guard as protests continue...
“If we organize ourselves, if we resist, we can defend our communities from ICE terror, from the Border Patrol or from any federal agency that wishes to separate our families.”
Freedom of movement and global apartheid
We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot.
‘No Kings’ movement rises as Trump unleashes military force to silence...
As President Trump deploys troops and tanks against protestors in Los Angeles and prepares for a military parade in Washington, over 1,800 rallies across the U.S. vow to resist authoritarianism with peaceful protest.
The war on trans people
And his executive actions are only the spear tip of a significantly larger legislative attempt to target and scapegoat transgender people, who make up just over one percent of the U.S. population.
Greta Thunberg and 11 other volunteers set out on mercy mission...
A crowd of supporters gathered at the port with Palestinian flags to encourage the 12-person crew. The mission is sponsored by the Freedom Flotilla organization.
New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away
These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month.
‘The Witkoff Massacre’: Israeli forces kill scores at Gaza aid site...
Palestinians describe massacre at U.S.-Israeli “humanitarian” zone in Rafah as food-starved civilians are lured and gunned down under a controversial Trump-backed aid plan.
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Iran retaliation revives scrutiny of US military bases across the Gulf
Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.
No king but madness reigns
Today I'll survey several factors feeding this unfolding fiasco.
Mo. Senator Eric Schmitt’s asinine SHIELD Act would classify blowing whistles as ‘Obstruction of...
Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.
Multi-million dollar agreement to import giant pandas from China collapses
Reports from advocacy groups like SF Zoo Watch and In Defense of Animals call on Mayor Daniel Lurie to halt new animal acquisitions and transform the 100-acre site from a traditional exhibition-based zoo into a 21st-century ecological park.