Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: human rights

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.

The end of human rights?

The Trump administration’s assault on human rights comes against the background of years of policy decisions in Washington that too often cast aside such concerns in favor of supposedly more important “strategic” interests.

Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as...

At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.

GOP leaders met with Israeli minister who called for bombing Gaza...

Israeli national security minister claims Republican leaders supported his calls to target humanitarian supplies in Gaza, a move condemned as a war crime by international experts.

IDF report on Gaza medics’ killing called a cover-up as rights...

Despite video evidence and global outrage, Israeli military report denies executions and offers limited disciplinary action for deadly March 23 attack

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The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.