TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Saudi Arabia – a country that now sits on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission – just executed ten women in an aerial bombardment that appeared to target a wedding procession in Yemen. According to Haaretz, a prominent Israeli newspaper, witnesses and health officials speaking on the condition of anonymity say an airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition warplane struck Read More…
While the Pentagon has been very secretive about what they’ve been doing in Yemen all year, on Wednesday officials confirmed that they have carried out “multiple ground operations,” as well as 120 airstrikes in 2017. US operations haven’t been well-documented at all, in January, almost immediately after the inauguration, the US attacked the village of Read More…
Iran’s Foreign Minister likened Nikki Haley’s presentation to Colin Powell’s 2003 WMD speech about Iraq, which precipitated the disastrous US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Iranian government issued a statement Thursday denying that a presentation by the U.S. represented proof that they’d been sending arms to the Shia Houthis in Yemen in a bid to Read More…
Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who have done nothing wrong. If a policeman operating under rule-of-law steps out of line, Read More…
U.S. officials admit they are not planning on shutting down the government’s warrantless spying program, even if it is not reauthorized by 2018. (TFTP) As the United States Congress runs out of time to vote on a bill that would reauthorize one of the government’s most egregious warrantless spying programs, officials are claiming that those programs Read More…
It wasn’t headline news for long, but on Monday, one of the most important geopolitical events of the year took place. On December 4, 2017, Yemen’s former leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was executed by the Houthi rebels currently vying for power in the war-stricken nation. Before he was ousted from power in 2012, Saleh enjoyed a cozy Read More…