BYJessica Corbett, Common Dreams While ExxonMobil’s decades of sowing public doubt about climate science and the impact of fossil fuels have provoked various lawsuits, secretly recorded videos released Wednesday expose how the company continues to fight against U.S. […]
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs Shortly after the public lynching of George Floyd, the U.S. Human Rights Network and the ACLU organized an international coalition of more than 600 […]
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs As the murder trial of Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd proceeds, the prosecution will try to portray the defendant as a “bad apple.” […]
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs On April 27, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States issued its long-awaited report […]
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs On June 28, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released a stunning 23-page report accompanied by a 95-page conference room paper for the UN Human […]
BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout When word came down yesterday that former Defense Secretary and brazen orchestrator of mass death Donald Rumsfeld had shuffled loose the mortal coil at age 88, CNN and the other networks began to do […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 The mainstream media has been largely critical and pessimistic regarding the Biden administration’s opening of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, there has been little comment […]
BY MICHAEL RATNER Photograph Source: U.S. Navy Photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Bob Houlihan – Public Domain Editors’ Note: With news of the belated death of Donald Rumsfeld, it’s vital that his true legacy of […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Photograph Source: Helene C. Stikkel – Public Domain Donald Rumsfeld fancied himself a dark genius, the McNamara of the neo-cons. But he was really a rather conventional thinker with a plodding, sententious […]
BY MATTHEW HOH Photograph Source: United States Senate – Public Domain “There’s only one thing worse than a soldier dying in vain; it’s more soldiers dying in vain.” ~ Senator Mike Gravel, 2008 Democratic presidential primary […]