Baltimore City Hall and Mayor’s Homes Raided By FBI
A scandal engulfing Mayor Catherine Pugh and many associates expands with federal involvement, as calls for systemic change grows
After the fall of the Soviet Union, a dysfunctional and pro-American Russian President Yeltsin presided over the chaos of the 1990’s; when Putin came to…
Activists defending the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. are ready for a long battle, laying the groundwork for legal challenges as the Trump administration’s Elliot…
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The Trump administration’s global gag rule will not only stop abortion funding, but will bar organizations worldwide from offering comprehensive reproductive health services
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Ceyhun Elgin and Adem Yavuz Elveren find that women’s participation in the workforce reduces inequality, but when this participation occurs in the informal labor market,…
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A French intelligence report reveals that Saudi Arabia and UAE depend on Western support for their war in Yemen. Just Foreign Policy co-director Hassan El-Tayyab…
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The Organization of American States allowed the ambassador of Venezuela’s self-declared president to participate in his first meeting. The move could signal an attempt to…
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Germany’s Right-Wing AfD Party Fights Culture of Remembrance
The ‘Alternative for Germany’ is trying to chip away at Germany’s culture of remembrance and its memorials to the victims of Nazi atrocities. Lamenting that young people were being made to feel guilty, the party appears to see no problem in forgetting the lessons of history
The Untold Story of the Nation’s Biggest School Cheating Scandal (3/3)
Is the Turkish-Russian S-400 Missile Deal Sabre Rattling Among Superpowers?
Turkey could take possession of the Russian S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile system by 2020 in a $2.5 billion deal. What is this doing to the NATO alliance where Turkey is a member? It is an ‘unfreezing’ of Cold War geopolitics, says Professor Richard Sakwa
Rising Expenses and Stagnant Incomes Squeezes Middle Class Everywhere
A new study by the OECD shows that particularly millennials and the US middle class is being squeezed by expenses that rise faster than their incomes, but the phenomenon is taking place in all developed countries
Empire Files: Giants – Who Really Rules The World?
Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University. His new book “Giants: The Global Power Elite” details the 17 transnational investment firms which control over $50 trillion in wealth—and how they are kept in power by their activists, facilitators and protectors
If War Is an Industry, How Can There Be Peace in a Capitalist World? The Seventeenth Newsletter (2019).
April 25, 2019
Labour Protest in Mexico 2019: The SITUAM Strike
April 25, 2019
Joe Biden: Puffery vs. Reality
April 24, 2019
The Baltimore Uprising: Four Years Later
April 19, 2019
World Bank Dispossessing Rural Poor
April 16, 2019
Medicare for All 64-Year-Olds
April 15, 2019
Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Social Base, Agenda and Perspectives
April 15, 2019
The Toxic Lure of “Guns and Butter”
April 15, 2019
Assange Arrest Sparks Interest in Gore Vidal Book
April 12, 2019
David Bernhardt Confirmed as Interior Secretary
April 11, 2019
Tom Friedman Just Noticed that the UK “Has Gone Mad”
April 8, 2019
Russiagate is Not Watergate
April 5, 2019
Defence of European Empires was Original NATO Goal
April 3, 2019
Has Privatization Benefitted the Public?
April 2, 2019
Scandal-Plagued Baltimore Mayor Takes Leave of Absence
April 1, 2019
Forget Mueller. Forget Impeachment. A Million People Should Surround the White House and Demand Trump’s Resignation
March 30, 2019
Maryland Becomes Sixth State to Adopt $15 Minimum Wage
March 29, 2019
City Settles, Agrees to Reforms with Fired Black Police Chief who Claimed Discrimination
March 28, 2019
Maryland Advances Bill For a $15 Minimum Wage in Six Years
March 21, 2019
‘This Is Historic’: US Senate Passes War Powers Resolution to End Complicity in World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
March 13, 2019
Baltimore Incinerator Could Lose Green Subsidies (UPDATED)
March 13, 2019
Canada’s Corrupt Foreign Policy Come Home to Roost
March 3, 2019
Amendments Limit Bill to Stop Baltimoreans from Losing Homes and Churches Over Unpaid Water Bills (UPDATED)
March 1, 2019
Will Militarizing Schools Make Them Safer?
February 25, 2019
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TRNN Documentary: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Narrated by Danny Glover, A documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack; the multi-million dollar campaign allowed a climate change denier to be elected president (a new version with updated content and music)
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Is the Oil Industry Canada’s ‘Deep State’?
Justin Trudeau and Canada’s political elite are fighting for the Tar Sands and oil industry’s interests, even if it means that Canada misses its climate targets. We speak to Kevin Taft, ex-Liberal Party politician and author of ‘Oil’s Deep State.’
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