TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
As a scholar of genocide and human rights, I believe the destruction brought about by these attacks combined with the blockade amounts to genocide. A Saudi-led coalition of states has been aggressively bombing Yemen and imposing an air and naval blockade of its ports for more than three years, leading U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe Yemen as “the world’s Read More…
Update VIII: President Trump has vowed to “get to the bottom” of whoever sent out the flurry of pipe bombs on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are a few lingering updates to close out before we hear more from investigators Wednesday evening. According to the New York Times, the package that was intercepted by Capitol Hill’s mail screeners Read More…
The largest ever US military aid package to Israel, which worth $38bn to be delivered with a period of ten years, entered into force, State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert announced yesterday. “As we enter the new fiscal year, the ten-year period of the $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the United States and Israel in Read More…
The FBI has refused to declassify 37 pages of materials related to the Uranium One deal, citing national security and the privacy issues, reports The Hill‘s John Solomon. The documents are thought to contain information regarding then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s involvement, as well as the Obama administration’s knowledge of the controversial deal. The existence of the documents Read More…
There will never, ever be another Adolf Hitler. History doesn’t repeat itself. Human behavior patterns repeat themselves, because humans are deeply conditioned animals, but history doesn’t repeat itself. Anyone who says it does is confused about how time works. Consumers of mainstream culture have been trained to watch out for the next Hitler the way Read More…
“It makes me wonder, what other rules are out there, and how have these rules been applied?” Journalists and free press advocates are responding with alarm to newly released documents revealing the U.S. government’s secret rules for using Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders to spy on reporters, calling the revelations “important” and “terrifying.” The documents—obtained and released Read More…