https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2021/6/29/us_airstrikes_iraq_syria BYAmy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Criticism is growing of recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, which the Biden administration says targeted Iran-backed militias. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi condemned the attack as a “blatant […]
BYMandy Smithberger & William D. Hartung, TomDispatch President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any reasonable standard. At more than $750 billion for the Defense Department and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department […]
BY HOWARD LISNOFF Photograph Source: The National Guard – CC BY 2.0 During the US war in Vietnam, a protester in Providence, Rhode Island set up a tiger cage and lamented that approaching the middle of the […]
InternationalAishik Saha As the two decades of imperialist war waged by the US on Afghanistan come to a close, millions of Afghans were confronted with a tragic Eid ul-Adha with a bloody ongoing war between the […]
BYMargaret Kimberley, Truthout Ihad the honor of working with the late Glen Ford for nearly 20 years. His passing has created a huge void not just for Black Agenda Report (BAR), the site we co-founded with the late […]
Lansky was part of the “Havana Mob,” which served as a haven for organized crime in Cuba in the 1940s and 50s. By Jonas E. Alexis If you believe that Meyer Lansky created a “a gambling […]
By VT On Labor Day in 1924, nearly 15,000 Ku Klux Klansmen in white robes descended on Lansing. They marched from East Michigan Avenue to Washington Avenue, headed for the state Capitol. A crowd of 50,000 lined […]
Single parents and guardians have struggled to access basic services for bereaved kids amid the pandemic. Five months after her husband died of covid-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children. Nicholas, […]
Liam Hines Download PDF flyer The continuing horror of racist police violence resurged in Syracuse earlier this month when video surfaced of three Dewitt police officers brutalizing two Black women in an East Syracuse Walmart. […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Billings – Public Domain Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense […]