US Relied on Illegal Sanctions to Seize Venezuelan Oil Tanker
By Marjorie Cohn This article was originally published by Truthout US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter.…
Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Outlines Imperial Intentions for Latin America
By Michael Fox for Truthout On Wednesday, December 10, Donald Trump announced that the United States had seized a tanker in the Caribbean carrying more than 1.6 million barrels of…
Secretive New Mexico Data Center Plan Races Forward Despite Community Pushback
By Dan Ross for Truthout At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico, a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center is gearing up to be a…
68 Cities, Counties, and States Will Increase Their Minimum Wage on January 1
By Sasha Abramsky for Truthout The Trump administration is one of the most anti-labor administrations in modern U.S. history — it has attempted to decertify the union representation of more…
Trump’s Draconian Border Policies Are Menacing the 2026 World Cup
By Nora Loreto for Truthout On Saturday, December 6, soccer fans around the world will find out where their favorite teams will be playing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.…
Why Walmart Wants to See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail
By Derek Seidman for Truthout Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee…
New Orleans Resists ICE Invasion Despite Surveillance and State Repression
By: Mike Ludwig Original for Truthout/TheAppeal When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready…
Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices
By Sharon Zhang Republished from Truthout A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for…
Trump Militarized Cities in ICE Crackdowns. Is Militarizing the Ballot Box Next?
By Sasha Abramsky Original for Truthout Two months after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the White House released the text of a sprawling executive order allegedly designed to ensure the integrity…
Suspect in National Guard Shooting Brought the CIA’s Shadow War Home
By Emran Feroz Originally Published by Truthout. After two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington, D.C. last week, several U.S. pundits and politicians were quick with their descriptions of…
As California Limits Water Use, People in Prison Face Punishment for Showering
By Steve Brooks & Olivia Heffernan , Originally Published on Truthout As droughts, extreme heat, and other climate disasters increasingly plague California, people throughout the state have been subject to…
Trump’s Illegal Boat Strikes Recall Duterte’s “Drug War” Mass Killings
By: Marjorie Cohn Republished from Truthout ublic outrage is mounting over the Trump administration’s September 2 “double tap” strike, in which the U.S. military bombed a small boat for a…
Israel Is Quietly Expanding Its Occupation of Gaza Under Cover of “Ceasefire”
By Dalia Abu Ramadan for Truthout I keep asking myself: How can the world believe Israel’s claim that a “ceasefire” is still in place? The occupation has convinced the world…
Here in Gaza, We See Our Horror and Grief Mirrored in Sudan
By Hend Salama Abo Helow / Truthout When I was a child, I used to naively invert the colors of the Palestinian flag — green in the place of red,…
Republicans Probe Alleged Hegseth Order to “Kill Everybody” as War Crimes Mount
Sharon Zhang Original for Truthout Members of Congress have launched a bicameral, bipartisan effort to sharpen oversight of the Pentagon after a report on an alleged order by Defense Secretary…