BYJohn Knefel, Truthout During Donald Trump’s campaign for president, claims of Russian misinformation and disinformation were ubiquitous on cable news, Twitter and op-ed columns. Public discussion of misinformation has since skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, usually […]
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2017, pp. 28, 41 Special Report By Sara R. Powell HOW MUCH IS reality and how much my expectations is difficult to say, but the atmosphere in Izmir following the […]
ELAINE PASQUINI Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2022, pp. 58-59 Waging Peace IN 1948, some 110,000 Palestinians fled to Lebanon after being violently forced from their homes by Jewish militants seeking to create the State […]
Let’s spend less on supporting vaccine apartheid abroad, and more on ending it at home. Phyllis Bennis Originally in InsideSources The two emails came in quick succession. One asked if I had been following the […]
Human Rights Groups Agree: Israel Is Practicing Apartheid The U.S. gives Israel’s military $3.8 billion a year. According to a new Amnesty report, that money funds apartheid. Phyllis Bennis Originally in OtherWords One day last […]
Israel Is Committing the Crime of Apartheid. What Should We Do About It? The international movement for Palestinian rights laid the ground for declarations by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations. We must follow […]
The United States backing Ukraine raises tension with Russia and is another move to feed into the military-industrial complex. KHURY PETERSEN-SMITH by In These Times This post by Khury Petersen-Smith first appeared at Truthout.org.If U.S. troops and weapons have […]
“Many of them are children,” said one United Nations official, “who are at even greater risk due to one of the worst climate-induced emergencies of the past 40 years.” BRETT WILKINS Severe drought driven by the […]
“Biden must seize this opportunity, veer off the path to military confrontation with Iran, ease crushing sanctions, and restore the most significant agreement between the U.S. and Iran in decades.” KENNY STANCIL An anti-war coalition […]
BYJake Batinga, Truthout One million Afghan children may die from starvation over the next several months, according to the United Nations. Nearly 23 million Afghans are facing “crisis levels of hunger” and 8.7 million are on the “brink of […]