The appointment by President Donald J. Trump of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avowed anti-vaxxer, to be the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in early 2025 was the beginning of the end to federal support for people’s health in the United States. Kennedy started by slashing funding for millions of…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told a reporter outside the White House on Tuesday that he doesn’t “know anything” about WikiLeaks founder and former editor Julian Assange, whose political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is believed to be under threat largely from pressure by the U.S. government. Trump’s statements have been widely criticized…
LOS ANGELES — Children as young as three years old are being forced to hold their own in deportation proceedings in federal court, judges have reported, further confirming how the cruelties of the U.S. immigrant enforcement regime have been largely unhindered by the local and global controversy it’s provoked. The practice began under former President…
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Late on the evening of June 28, 2009, two days before voters were scheduled to go to the polls to vote on a referendum amending the Honduran Constitution, army officers forced President Manuel Zelaya — wearing only his pajamas and slippers — to board a military airplane for Costa Rica. Three months…
The appointment by President Donald J. Trump of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avowed anti-vaxxer, to be the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in early 2025 was the beginning of the end to federal support for people’s health in the United States. Kennedy started by slashing funding for millions of…
Home » Prisons: tear them down » Protest at SCI Mahanoy demands eye treatment for Mumia WW Photo: Gil Obler Activists from three states –– Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York ––gathered Aug. 31 outside Mahanoy State Correctional Institute in Frackville, Pennsylvania, to demand immediate medical treatment for Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose eyesight has been severely…
The 25th summit of the 20 heads of state and government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in Tianjin, China, near Shanghai, on August 31 and September 1. The SCO is now the most important international organization. Speaking at the event, Chinese President Xi Jinping, who held the rotating chairmanship of the SCO,…
