Protesters demand financial institutions stop investing in nukes in this photo posted on social media on November 21, 2021 by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). (Photo: ICAN) “Many investors, given a choice, […]
Immigrant rights advocates demonstrate in Portland, England on July 18, 2023. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) “This bill sets a worrying precedent for dismantling asylum-related obligations that other countries, including in Europe, may be tempted to […]
People wait to receive food donations in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 27, 2022. (Photo: Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images) The United Nations Development Program is calling for a pause in debt repayments to allow economies […]
A palm oil farm in Belem, Brazil. (Photo: iStock/via Getty Images) Climate finance must be redirected away from greenwashing and towards real solutions like a just transition, helping frontline communities, conservation, protection of land and […]
John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, testifies during a House hearing on July 13, 2023. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images) “This is unfair and goes against what was agreed upon at […]
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) arrives at the U.S. Capitol on June 15, 2023. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) “It includes provisions to restrict access to abortion and transgender care for military members,” […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Hiroshima blast and fire damage, U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey map. In the spring of 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to make an official visit to Hiroshima. Obama’s strange speech […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Bryancalabro – CC BY-SA 3.0 In this era of beleaguered feminism and receding female rights, anything that contributes to a woman, rather than the state, controlling her own body is welcome. Because […]
BY JOSEPH NATOLI Photo by Patrick Tomasso Words come to meaning within the context of expression, which is time and place. Call it the stage upon which actors –words – are confined. Maybe they can break out […]
BY PAUL STREET You can hear the liberal Democrats clucking and see them smiling. The “democratic American system,” they want you to know, “is working.” Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump has been indicted for […]