by Medea Benjamin | Sep 27, 2019 | Energy, Environment, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Medea Benjamin The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets...
by Conn Hallinan | Sep 27, 2019 | Energy, Redev, War & Peace
In many ways it doesn’t really matter who — Houthis in Yemen? Iranians? Shiites in Iraq? — launched those missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia. Whoever did it changed the rules of the game, and not just in the Middle East. “It’s a moment when offense laps defense, when...
by Charles Davis | Sep 24, 2019 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
An American white nationalist killed over 30 people recently. The victims, all brown, had full lives; children, loved ones, and years, full of plans, ahead of them. But then they were incinerated. Worst of all, they were murdered while Afghan. The deaths were noted...
by John Feffer | Sep 18, 2019 | Redev, War & Peace
John Bolton tried his best. The national security adviser entered the Trump administration as a predictable warmonger with an unslakable thirst for power. He streamlined the national security apparatus to maximize his access to the president. At least at first, he...
by Mina Shahinfar | Jul 26, 2019 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
This summer marked the one-year anniversary of the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban. The court narrowly ruled the administration’s arbitrary travel restrictions against citizens of Syria, Iran, Yemen, Libya, and...