BYSasha Abramsky, Truthout Voting Wrongs Last week, as Donald Trump ginned up for the Republican National Convention, he went on Fox News to talk with Sean Hannity about “voter fraud,” be it fraud committed at polling sites or […]
BYSteven Chovanec, Truthout It is always curious when the health of the economy is equated with the stock market, as President Trump did when he touted the recent record highs of the S&P and Dow Jones, claiming he is presiding […]
by DAVE LINDORFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As the first and hopefully only presidential term of Donald Trump nears its November 3 moment of truth, the accusations of fascist or even Nazi tendencies and actions […]
by MIKE HASTIE I took these photographs on the night of August 13, 2020. It was the night that I and a few others got trampled by the charging cops. I took these 4 pictures before […]
by PETER BOLTON Photograph Source: Office of the Attorney General of California – Public Domain Joe Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate will surely satisfy Democratic Party insiders who were hoping for him […]
by PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Donald Trump is cock-a-hoop over the United Arab Emirates becoming the first Arab Gulf state to normalise its relations with Israel. He needs all the good news […]
by JULIA BARNES They want to mine the deep sea. We shouldn’t be surprised. This culture has stolen 90% of the large fish, created 450 deoxygenated areas, and murdered 50% of the coral reefs. It has […]
by BRETT WILKINS In the pre-dawn darkness of Monday, August 10, 1970, Dan Mitrione’s bullet-ridden body was discovered in the back seat of a stolen Buick convertible in a quiet residential neighborhood of Montevideo, the Uruguayan […]
by TED RALL Most years, the Super Bowl is a dud. Yet the hype machine keeps pulling in new suckers. The quadrennial announcement of the Democratic nomination for vice president features an identical Lucy, Charlie Brown […]
BYAmy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Protests continue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where police shot an unarmed Black man in the back seven times as he was getting into his car, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. […]