BY KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: los_bandito_anthony – CC BY 2.0 A flailing Tory government is undergoing a slump in the polls as result of Boris “BoJo” Johnson’s growing unpopularity, the spread of Covid’s Delta variant and BoJo’s […]
Hundreds of people gather near a US Air Force C-17 transport plane at a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16th, 2021. Photo: AP/Shekib Rahmani Dear Readers, The rapid fall of Kabul […]
Israel’s ongoing “Water War” against Palestinians CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Israel has conducted a war for control over Palestinian water resources ever since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967. Israel controls water resources from the river […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: bluuurgh – Public Domain On August 15, the Taliban arrived in Kabul. The Taliban’s leadership entered the presidential palace, which Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had vacated when he fled into exile abroad hours […]
BY: Marjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs On August 11, in a rare occurrence, the U.K. High Court’s Lord Justice Timothy Holroyde and Justice Dame Judith Farbey overruled the July […]
BY: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreame Pleas for international aid poured out of Haiti on Monday in the wake of a weekend earthquake that killed at least 1,419 people amid growing concerns that Tropical Depression Grace will hamper search and rescue efforts as […]
https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2021/8/17/afghanistan_azmat_khan BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Investigative journalist Azmat Khan, who has reported extensively in Afghanistan, says President Joe Biden has not yet addressed the chaos unleashed by the collapse of the Afghan government. In remarks […]
BYJake Johnson, Common Dreams As the Biden administration faces criticism for not doing enough to assist those fleeing Afghanistan, an analysis released Monday showed that the roughly $19 billion the Pentagon budgeted for the U.S. occupation of the country […]
BYStephen Zunes, Truthout We must not allow the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan to be used to rewrite history and teach the wrong lessons. The rapid fall of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan and the takeover of […]
BY: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout For a time back in the bad old days of Donald Trump, it seemed as if the corporate “news” media had ever so slightly corrected their hard-wired rightward tilt. They […]