In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....
You can tell much from how the media choose to cover a news story – and from the facts they decide to emphasise in a headline. And you can tell even more from the fact that, on certain subjects, the media uniformly choose to break the most basic rules of news...
War is ugly and it leaves in its brutal wake not just death and destruction, but also a seemingly endless number of people whose minds and bodies are permanently damaged. Yet, despite these grim aspects of war, the unsavory affair is still quite common within our...
Factual information about Israel and Palestine may soon be outlawed in the California K-12 school system. Assembly Bill 715 is currently on Governor Newsom's desk. The legislation was recently rushed through the California legislature, amended just days before...
The new film Evil Unbound tells the story of Unit 731 and Japanese biowarfare in China. How the mass murderers escaped justice with U.S. support after World War II offers lessons even today. On May 18, the highly-anticipated film Evil Unbound on the notorious Japanese...
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press... " – First Amendment to the U.S....
“Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy,” the Washington Post reports. “The critiques from multiple top officers… come as [US defense secretary Pete] Hegseth reorders U.S. military priorities —...
On September 10, at least 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace. Polish F-16’s and Dutch F-35’s were scrambled with the assistance of Italian early warning AWACS aircraft and German Patriot systems. Four of the Russian drones were shot down in the first time...
For the third time this month, the Israeli government deployed drones and bombs against the Global Sumud Flotilla, the convoy of 50 civilian boats carrying humanitarian aid as part of a global humanitarian attempt to break Israel’s US-backed siege of Gaza and draw...
First published by Middle East Eye. The reluctant recognition of Palestinian statehood by Britain, France, Australia, Canada this week is a con – it is the same switch and bait that has been blocking the creation of a Palestinian state for three decades now. Imagine...
