Category: Politics & Human Rights
449 Posts
155 years after abolition, slavery is still legal in the United States—Democratic lawmakers are trying to fix that
Director of National Intelligence admits government used Section 215 to track browsing history
Indian farmers continue historic protests after 250 million people rise up against Modi’s neoliberal policies
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans favor raising taxes on incomes over $400K
New data show income of top 0.1% soared 345% while that of bottom 90% stagnated over past 40 years
Martyred missionaries: The lives and legacies of Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel
Israel releases Mays Abu Ghosh, Palestinian student jailed for membership in leftist campus group
New satellite data reveal Brazilian Amazon deforestation at 12-year high
‘A kind of terrorism’: Israeli human rights groups offer harrowing look at IDF night raids on Palestinian homes
With brutal memories of Standing Rock, Stop Line 3 campaigners wary of rule against ‘counterinsurgency tactics’
#FeminismNotMilitarism: Peace groups blast Biden’s DNI pick over links to drones, torture, mass surveillance
Rich nations put Big Pharma over public health by rejecting WTO patent waivers amid pandemic
Jewish-led groups condemn Pompeo for declaring BDS movement ‘anti-Semitic’
Washington Post publishes names, details of 1,400 civilians killed in US-led bombings of ISIS
‘Billionaire Bonanza’ continues as workers pounded by pandemic, recession, and GOP relief refusal
Trump rushes to auction off Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling rights before Biden inauguration
Advocacy groups slam ‘shameful’ deportation of ICE medical abuse survivors
American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem wants to know if he’s on the US ‘Kill List’
CodePink defends Senate candidate Raphael Warnock after opponent’s ‘anti-Semitism’ smear
Lawyers can’t reunite 666 seized migrant children with their parents—121 more than previously believed
From police violence at home to killing civilians abroad, US faces human rights reckoning at UN
Rep. Ilhan Omar condemns Israeli ‘ethnic cleansing’ after IDF destruction of Palestinian hamlet
Israel bulldozes West Bank village in single biggest demolition in 10 years
Protesters from coast to coast urge election officials to ‘Count Every Vote’
Race to the bottom continues for workers as Uber, Lyft win Prop 22 passage after historic money dump
‘Outrageous, unprecedented’: Biden campaign blasts Trump’s false Election Night claims of victory and fraud
Rising Up With Sonali—Live Election Day coverage
More than 80 historians of fascism and authoritarianism issue open letter of warning
Robert Fisk, veteran war reporter and fierce critic of US imperialism, dead at 74
House issues scathing report on Trump migrant family separation policy
Jared Kushner eviscerated as ‘face of white privilege and nepotism’ after mocking racial justice protesters
10 years after Iraq War Logs, it’s impunity for war criminals, war on whistleblowers
