 EPA Deregulation Would Be a 'Tragedy' for Health, Experts Say Physicians and scientists say rollbacks on pollution, transportation and greenhouse gas emissions regulations are a serious risk to public health. At a virtual panel hosted by the American Lung Association on Wednesday, physicians and health experts highlighted the human health implications of the EPA’s efforts to roll back regulations on particulate matter air pollution, greenhouse gases, transp... |
Steven Sahiounie: Israel defies the US-brokered ceasefire with over 500 dead in Gaza
This article talks about the latest developments between Israel and Hamas and the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people |
Adomas Abromaitis: Europe violates its own fundamental freedoms
European States once agreed that elections should respect fundamental freedoms and should be characterized by equality, universality, political pluralism, confidence, transparency and accountability. |
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Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trump First, America Last
Yes, "shock and awe" is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration and, whether the president has actually said it or not, it's now regularly in headlines, op-eds, and so much else. If you remember, it was the phrase used, in all its glory, to describe America's massive bombing and invasion of Iraq in 2003[...] |
Steven Sahiounie: Russian airbase rescues 8,000 Syrians.
This article talks about the role of the Russian army in giving the Syrians aid after the massacres |
Steven Sahiounie: China hosts a meeting concerning Iran nuclear deal
This article talks about the meeting that China had to discuss the Iranian nuclear deal |
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Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: William D. Hartung, A Manhattan Project for AI Weaponry?
Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract[...] |
Steven Sahiounie: Damascus's deal with the Kurds restores lost oilfields
This article talks about the latest developments in Syria and the US role in the deal between SDF and Ahmad Al-Shara |
Hugh Curran: Tariffs, Territorial Ambitions & Other Trump Threats
This article views some of the conflicts that President Trump has gotten himself involved with, including climate change, tariffs, Greenland, Canada, Panama, Gaza. One of the questions underlying the article is whether his motives have some validity and whether his forays into peace might have results that are beneficial for all concerned. 1  |
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Steven Sahiounie: Syrian coastal massacres subside.
This article talks about the latest massacres in the Syrian coast by the radical islamc terrorist groups. |
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Nan Levinson, It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?)
Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it's already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top[...] |
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Setting Up the Machinery of Mass Deportation
"Flights to Guanta'namo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland."
With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting "criminal aliens" in its custody[...] |
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Steven Sahiounie: "Obama started the Ukraine war, and Trump aims to stop it": interview with Donald Courter
This is an interview with journalist and expert Donald courter to talk about the latest developments in the relationship between Russia and the USA |
Jean-Luc Basle: The American Constitution and the test of time
American democracy was based on a double balance: between the states and the federal government, on the one hand, and the three branches of government, the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary, on the other. Over time, the American democracy has been weakened in an unequal struggle between the elite and the people over the distribution of power and wealth. |
Suzanne McMillen-Fallon: -- the Price of Blood
"Pathetic Apathy" It's time to act. "They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah. (Ps. 57:6)." 1 |
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Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Living in Red-Card America
"It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign," my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the intersection, shaking both his middle fingers at us but managing not to hit us. Phew![...] |
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Juan Cole, Did Science Fiction Prophesy Our Tech Broligarchy?
The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read -- no, this is not hyperbole! -- like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies staging a twenty-first-century cybercoup with the acquiescence of an aging lunatic of a president beggars belief[...] |
 Martha Rosenberg: If Obesity Is a Disease..So Is Smoking! There is so much money in the new fat drugs that compounding pharmacies are suing drugmakers and vice verse while bariatric surgeons fume over lost business. |
 Martha Rosenberg: Thoughts and Warnings On Fat Tuesday from a Former Local First of all, Fat Tuesday revelry ends promptly at midnight not when the sun comes up on Ash Wednesday. It is a religious holiday preceding Lent. Many Yankees wish they knew this after police interventions. |
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Which Century Are We In?
In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming" of Donald J. Trump.
But nobody expected this. Nobody at all[...] |
 Trump's treatment of Zelensky filled him with 'horror'--Poland's former Pres. Walesa Poland's democracy hero, former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa, and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to Pres. Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukrain's Pres. Zelinskyy at the Oval Office last week filled them with horror and distaste. Walesa posted the letter on Facebook on along with a photograph of himself with Trump. It was signed by him... |
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Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Trump Administration's Christian Crusade Is Experiencing Pushback
"There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith," House Speaker Mike Johnson said on a podcast recently. He was talking with Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana lawmaker and president of the Family Research Council, about freedom of religion and the actions of the second Trump administration[...] |
Steven Sahiounie: The Assad family of Syria were an Arab version of a Sicilian mafia
This is an investigation exposing the drug empire of the Assad family of Syria |
 Martha Rosenberg: Are State Departments of Natural Resources Next on the Cutting Block? Thanks to Trump administration budget cuts at the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Education, the National Parks Service, proposed cuts at the National Institutes of Health and more, "Who will they come for next?" has become a refrain--especially from those with affected jobs. 1 |
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Steven Sahiounie: Part two: The Assad family was an Arab version of a Sicilian Mafia
This part two of an investigation that talks about the Captagon drug empire of the Assad family of Syria |
Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial-Tech Complex
Donald Trump's power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it goes virtually unmentioned in mainstream media and political discourse[...] |
Adomas Abromaitis: Britain can't afford to support Ukraine
The US and Europe have suddenly begun to count their own economic losses from the war in Ukraine. |
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Tom Engelhardt: Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Bending The Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice
Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his presidential agenda. Recently, he tried to ban birthright citizenship by executive order to limit the number of babies of color born in the United States, though such an act is clearly unconstitutional[...] |
 Donald Trump Revives Hitler's "Degenerate Art" The presidential obsession with cultural control is evidence of a continued fascist creep and not just another joke exercise in narcissism. For example the National Endowment for the Arts updated grant policies to eliminate funding for anything interpreted as related to Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) while prioritizing propagandistic projects that celebrate the semiquincentennial of the US. Most galling in an unhi... |
 Art Museum Exhibition Axed by Trump DEI Crackdown The Art Museum of the Americas in Wash, DC, has terminated an exhibition of works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists after the Trump administration allegedly withdrew the show's funding amid crackdowns on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. Before The Americas, curated by Cheryl D. Edwards and four years in the making, was slated to open on March 21 and set to include 40 w... |
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