Other States Banned Forced Prison Labor. Why Didn’t California?
By Michelle Chen / Truthout Despite the state’s Democratic majority, more than 53 percent of Californians voted against a ban on slave labor in state prisons. Proposition (Prop) 6 would…
The Real History of How Hamas Was Created And Propped Up | Part 3
By Robert Inkalesh / MintPressNews You might have heard that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been propping up Hamas in Gaza… but is there more to the story? Some…
Robert Scheer: Jimmy, We Hardly Know Y’all
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Playboy Magazine in November, 1976, accompanying Robert Scheer’s famous interview with President Jimmy Carter, and has been pulled from Robert Scheer’s book,…
How Ukraine is Helping the HTS Militants Who Overthrew Assad
By Stavroula Pabst / Responsible Statecraft As Islamist, al-Qaida-linked group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) overruns Syria amid President Assad’s sudden ouster, evidence suggesting Ukraine has assisted the group’s triumph…
Chris Hedges: Closing Your Heart & the Path to Self-Annihilation (w/ Gabor Maté)
By Chris Hedges / Chris Hedges Report
Privatising Syria: US Plans Post-Assad Selloff
By Kit Klarenberg / Global Delinquents Following the abrupt fall of Bashar Assad’s government in Syria, much remains uncertain about the country’s future – including whether it can survive as…
US-Funded Group Removes Report Warning of Famine in North Gaza After Complaint From US Ambassador
In a statement denouncing the report, the US ambassador to Israel acknowledged Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza
‘A Policy Choice’: US Report Finds Homelessness Soared 18% This Year
"Increased homelessness is the tragic, yet predictable, consequence of underinvesting in the resources and protections that help people find and maintain safe, affordable housing," said one advocate.
Sacrificing Living Standards for War
Pensions must be trimmed, inflation accepted and any other social benefits put on the chopping block.
I Got Cancer at 35. The Health Insurance System Delayed My Treatment for Months
Young adults face rising cancer rates — and barriers to timely interventions.
Gideon Levy on Israel’s ‘Moral Blindness’: Gaza Babies Freeze, Strikes Kill Medical Workers, Reporters
Award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel...
Black Money, Black Flags: How USAID Paved the Way for Syria’s Militant Takeover
New evidence reveals how U.S.-backed NGOs provided funds and legitimacy to a terrorist-led administration in Syria. Was this negligence—or deliberate policy?
Manufacturing Rebels: How the UK and US Empowered HTS
A deep dive into the covert support the UK and US provided to HTS exposes the calculated, secretive western strategies to support the Al-Qaeda-linked, UN-designated terror group that runs Syria…
Across the Middle East, the BDS Movement Is Thriving
Nowhere is the power of BDS more evident than in the Middle East, where shared regional solidarity and strategic economic pressure have turned the movement into a powerful force.