Tens of thousands of people marched in Rome on June 21, 2025, to protest militarization, NATO and support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The imperialist North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held its annual summit meeting of heads of state and heads of government June 25-26 in The Hague, capital of the Netherlands and that country’s…
Home » Prisons: tear them down » Rally to free Mumia Abu-Jamal Philadelphia — Family, friends and supporters of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal will mark the 43rd anniversary of his unjust conviction on July 5 with a Rally to Free Mumia starting at 1:00 p.m. at Malcolm X Park, 5100 Pine Street in West…
Rep. Adam Schiff recently announced that he would be drafting a bill to create a “9/11-style commission” to investigate the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering how absolutely corrupt and compromised the 9/11 Commission was, it should never serve as a model for any investigation. As I wrote in my article, “The Facts…
KHARTOUM, SUDAN — Late Thursday evening, less than two weeks after murdering more than 100 civilian protesters, Sudan’s ruling military council tried to save face by telling a group of international reporters that those responsible for the slaughter had “deviated” from the official military plan to disperse protesters. Gen. Shams Eddin Kabashi, spokesman for the…
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s energy secretary, Rick Perry, has secretly approved the sale of nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, Reuters revealed this week. Saudi Arabia is reportedly attempting to construct at least two nuclear power plants as part of its effort to diversify its energy sector and its economy as…
WASHINGTON — William Barr — President Donald Trump’s nominee for the position of attorney general, the chief law enforcement post in the U.S. — is the subject of no shortage of controversy over his past as he testifies this week on Capitol Hill. But Democrats are hammering Barr over an unsolicited memo he wrote to…
WASHINGTON — Marzieh Hashemi, an American citizen and journalist who has been living and working in Iran, has been detained without charge or justification by U.S. government authorities since Sunday, when she arrived at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis to visit her sick brother. However, her family was not notified until 48 hours after…
Amid mounting concerns about possible war with Iran after the Trump administration ditched a decades-old bilateral treaty in response to an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on Wednesday that U.S. sanctions violate it, National Security Adviser John Bolton announced a review of all international agreements that could lead to more binding decisions by the principal judicial organ of the United…
The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to ease sanctions on Iran that are impacting humanitarian aid and aviation safety, ruling that U.S. assurances the economic limitations would not endanger both “were not adequate.” “Iran’s strategy of taking the U.S. to the international court has paid off,” responded Trita Parsi, founder and president…
Along with tens of thousands of children and families, cancer patients, Americans with substance abuse disorders, and victims of domestic violence are among the casualties of President Donald Trump’s detention of young immigrants—according to government documents outlining the administration’s plan to divert millions of dollars away from programs serving those populations. Yahoo News reported that in order…
The US on Monday announced the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Washington diplomatic mission as the Donald Trump administration prepares to roll out its Middle East peace plan, Anadolu reports. The State Department announced the decision, saying “the PLO office in Washington will close at this point.” The office had served as Palestine’s de facto embassy in Washington. The…
Attempting to change two decades of precedent, the Trump administration announced its intention Thursday to lift court-ordered limits on how long migrant children can be detained—a proposal multiple critics promptly denounced as “Gitmo for children.” The administration said Thursday it intends to enter into the Federal Register new regulations that would allow it to hold…
Decades of research has revealed time and again that breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed babies. Years of misleading marketing by formula companies has caused undue harm the world over by providing free samples in-hospital after birth, driving the unintended use of dirty water to mix formula where clean water is scarce and miseducating…
Immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday applauded a federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration cannot detain asylum seekers who are awaiting immigration hearings—a practice that breaks the government’s own policies as well as international law. Today’s ruling means the Trump administration cannot use indefinite detention as a weapon to punish and deter asylum seekers. It…
Tens of thousands of people marched in Rome on June 21, 2025, to protest militarization, NATO and support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The imperialist North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held its annual summit meeting of heads of state and heads of government June 25-26 in The Hague, capital of the Netherlands and that country’s…
Home » Prisons: tear them down » Rally to free Mumia Abu-Jamal Philadelphia — Family, friends and supporters of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal will mark the 43rd anniversary of his unjust conviction on July 5 with a Rally to Free Mumia starting at 1:00 p.m. at Malcolm X Park, 5100 Pine Street in West…
Home » Global » Veterans’ fast demands food for Gaza, no weapons to Israel A Veterans For Peace-sponsored “Fast For Gaza” of veterans and allies ended June 29 with a press conference and march from the United Nations to the nearby Israeli Consulate. A civil disobedience action followed that blocked the street in front of…
By actively partnering with the U.S. government to smuggle communications hardware into Iran, Elon Musk is once again aiding Washington’s attempts at regime change. This fits into a long pattern of both American efforts to dislodge the government in Tehran and Musk’s close collaboration with the U.S. national security state, helping it to achieve its…