By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN – The New York Times The relationship between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed…
By Michelle Chen* – The Nation The children who live through these conflicts could be scarred for decades. For the children who are struggling to survive the Middle East’s ongoing wars, the impacts could be life-changing. According to a new study, the trauma will likely continue…
The Thin Edge – Ruchir Joshi* / The Telegraph India History makes fools out of pompous and vainglorious leaders and regimes. If there’s one city that drives home this point today, it is Berlin. Sitting here, it makes for odd watching as white supremacists openly wave Nazi…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Aug 21 2017 (IPS) – Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather, destruction of natural resources, in particular lands, soils and water, and the…
David Blight* – The Guardian The years leading up to 1861 saw polarised politics, paranoia and conspiracy theories. One of the US’s foremost historians reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” Thomas Jefferson…
David Motadel* – The Guardian It has never been more important to acknowledge the history of fascism and neo-fascism in America America is currently experiencing a wave of increasingly aggressive far-right and neo-fascist activism. Observers have routinely considered fascism an…
Colum Lynch, – Foreign Policy A Saudi-led military coalition conducting airstrikes in Yemen committed “grave violations” of human rights against children last year, killing 502, injuring 838, according to a draft report by the U.n. Secretary General António Guterres. “The…
By Krista Mahr – Newsweek Standing in front of a packed classroom at a school in Iruekpen, a remote farming village in southern Nigeria, Precious Owens warns teenage students about the dangers of migrating to Europe. Recruiters trick people into thinking they can get a good job…
Hunter* – lobelog.com Additional sanctions on Russia, followed by Moscow’s drastic cutting of the US government’s presence in the Russian Federation, take the “Russia issue” to a new level of intensity and risk of Cold War II. Most blame lies with Russian President Vladimir…
By Mychal Denzel Smith* – The Nation Where we have (mostly) condemned slavery, we as a country have refused to condemn its defenders. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a federal holiday, but I didn’t celebrate…
