The Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, imprisoned for trying to buy humanitarian supplies from Iran in legal international trade but in violation of illegal US sanctions, is facing extradition to the US. That is like getting stabbed in the back and […]
BY ROGER HARRIS Photograph Source: United States Department of the Treasury – Public Domain Alex Saab is “the key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery—that is, how a country facing sanctions from the US, the UK […]
Unarmed protesters affiliated with Hezbollah and Amal were gunned down by the Saudi-backed Lebanese Forces militia in Beirut on Thursday, October 14, provoking a sectarian gun battle that risked igniting a civil war. Why did […]
Steve Bannon and GEORGE GALLOWAY Congress should use its inherent power of contempt to compel Bannon’s testimony in real time By Jim W. Dean, Feature image – The Library of Congress When he doesn’t show, Congress Should […]
BY MARTHA ROSENBERG Painting Source: Le Malade imaginaire by Honoré Daumier – Public Domain If you’re like most people, you never heard of the prescription drug Humira until 2013. That’s when Abbott Laboratories spun off AbbVie, to aggressively […]
IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG The US Congress can’t agree on much, but they manage to keep a stream of legislation – and cash – for Israel flowing year-round. (Pictured: United States Capitol building in Washington, DC.) With documentation […]
BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 Chilean author and human rights advocate Ariel Dorfman recently memorialized Orlando Letelier, President Allende’s foreign minister. Agents of dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered Letelier in Washington […]
BY MIRIAM MIRANDA On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I want to tell you about my people, the Garifuna. We’re an Afro-Indigenous people, descended from Arawaks and Africans. Our ancestral territory spans the Caribbean border of Central […]
BY TED RALL Photograph Source: Kuba Bożanowski – CC BY 2.0 Activists harass White House officials and senators as they eat dinner at restaurants. Another senator was recently stalked into the ladies’ room, where her pursuers shouted derision at her stall. […]
BYMike Ludwig, Truthout New research appears to confirm what Black Lives Matter activists and abolitionist organizers have said for years: There is a crisis of police-perpetrated killings in the United States that has gone underreported for […]