Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » Philly: Hundreds protest transit fare increases, service cuts Over 300 people rallied outside Philadelphia City Hall on Aug. 6 to demand no cuts in services or fare increases for South East Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) trains, buses and trolleys. Hundreds of people rally in Philadelphia to…
Home » Global » Latin America & the Caribbean » Eulogy for Carolina Saldaña Originally from the U.S., Caro/Carolina Saldaña, who for years was living in Mexico doing local solidarity work around Mumia Abu-Jamal’s imprisonment, died on Aug. 1, 2025, cause yet to be determined. The following is a tribute to her. By Mumia Abu-Jamal…
The Most Censored News with Lee Camp hosted by comedian/ writer/ raconteur/ provocateur/ saboteur Lee Camp is a twice-weekly look at the most censored stories within corporate media hosted by the new video platform Behind the Headlines – a MintPress video project that is 100% viewer supported. Camp both brings to light stories that are…
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe, it has evolved into a global war machine…
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chessboard, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalism with freedom. In the name of national…
KIEV, UKRAINE — Within three months of the ascendancy of Joseph Biden to the presidency of the United States, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear war, whether by design or accident, as Russia reports that the U.S. is placing considerable pressure on Ukraine to attack the independent republics of the Donbass for which…
WASHINGTON — According to The Telegraph, “new revelations” from an unnamed senior Western intelligence source show “that Iran is trying to conceal vital elements of its nuclear programme from the outside world [and] has no intention of complying with its international obligations under the terms of the nuclear deal.” Led by Israel and the United…
Writing in the U.S. Naval Institute Journal, Admiral Charles A. Richard warned that the military must “consider the possibility of great power competition, crisis, or direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer” and update and modernize its approach to its two principal adversaries. “There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or…
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of…
The world must not ignore the potential nuclear flashpoint in South Asia. If such a war, even a very limited nuclear exchange, transpired between India and Pakistan, it could very easily lead to the deaths of a billion people all over the world from the resulting global fallout. Since the nuclear armament of South Asia…
Anyone reading the scientific literature (or the progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature) knows that homo sapiens are on the fast track to extinction, most likely sometime between 2025 and 2040. For a taste of the evidence in this regard focusing on the climate, see ‘Climate Collapse and Near Term Human Extinction’, ‘What…
The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. The Executive Summary of the NPR is also available if you prefer. Several authors have already thoughtfully exposed a phenomenal variety of obvious lies, invented threats, strategic…
Home » Global » Asia & the Pacific » Philly: Hundreds protest transit fare increases, service cuts Over 300 people rallied outside Philadelphia City Hall on Aug. 6 to demand no cuts in services or fare increases for South East Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) trains, buses and trolleys. Hundreds of people rally in Philadelphia to…
Home » Global » Latin America & the Caribbean » Eulogy for Carolina Saldaña Originally from the U.S., Caro/Carolina Saldaña, who for years was living in Mexico doing local solidarity work around Mumia Abu-Jamal’s imprisonment, died on Aug. 1, 2025, cause yet to be determined. The following is a tribute to her. By Mumia Abu-Jamal…
El dicho «las cifras no mienten, pero los mentirosos sí» se ha atribuido a menudo al escritor Mark Twain. Algunos investigadores discrepan sobre la fuente. Pero sea cual sea su origen, el adagio podría aplicarse fácilmente al presidente Donald Trump, a quien no le interesan las cifras reales que se ajustan a la realidad. Trabajadores…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » Charges dropped on Alejandro Orellana! Committee to Stop FBI Repression Celebrates Big Win The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is pleased to announce that the charges on Alejandro Orellana have been dropped! This is a huge win for protesters and activists everywhere, as well as the immigrants’ rights movements…