People fleeing the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seek shelter in the town of Sake, May 2021. UNHCR immediately began providing assistance. © UNHCR/Guerchom Ndebo The trend in rising […]
BY BRIAN CLOUGHLEY Photograph Source: Matt Brown – CC BY 2.0 The world has many crises, and probably the most heart-rending is that of desperately miserable refugees who have been forced to flee from their homes. The […]
BY PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In case you haven’t heard, the bio-terrorist Donald Trump tried to kill Joe Biden late in the 2020 presidential campaign. Three days before his first and not-so “presidential” […]
BY EOIN HIGGINS Photograph Source: Ivan Radic – CC BY 2.0 Conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf claimed last month that New York City’s vaccine restrictions make the metropolis akin to the Deep South in the Jim Crow days. […]
US: General Motors strike50,000 workers at General Motors plants across America have been on strike since 15 September, demanding that the company restore the jobs, pay scales and conditions which they enjoyed before the company […]
BY PAM MARTENS Photograph Source: concrete&fells – CC BY 2.0 For more than two decades, the general counsels of Wall Street’s megabanks have been meeting together secretly once a year at ritzy hotels and resorts around the world. This […]
BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Ricardo Stuckert/PR – CC BY 3.0 br Xiomara Castro, candidate of the Freedom and Refoundation Party (“Libre”) prevailed in presidential elections in Honduras on November 28. Her term begins in January, […]
Activist and Meretz member Avi Dabush explains what the Israeli left gets wrong about towns like Sderot, their Mizrahim, and their views on Gaza. Avi Dabush who came in ninth at Meretz primaries after the […]
A motion to label the entire Hamas movement as ‘terrorists’ is an attempt to score political points at the cost of a peacemaking strategy for Israel-Palestine. By Hugh Lovatt Palestinians attend a Hamas rally marking the […]
Protesters decried Isaac Herzog’s participation in a Hanukkah ceremony in occupied Hebron, seeing it as an endorsement of the city’s extremist settlers. By Ben Reiff and Oren Ziv Israeli President Isaac Herzog lighting a candle during a ceremony […]