Amid Warnings Saudi Attack Will Plunge Yemen Into Famine, Urgent Demand for US to End 'Complicity in This Atrocity'

Peace advocates and international observers are warning that a looming U.S.-backed assault on the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah could throw the war-torn country into the famine that human rights groups have warned about for months—and implored members of Congress on Tuesday to take immediate action to end the Saudi-led coalition’s offensive. “A prolonged battle […]

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After US Senator Asks Public to 'Imagine' CIA Interfering in Foreign Elections, Historians Are Like… Uhhh

Comments from Sen. Mark Warner responding to reports that Attorney General Bill Barr asked a number of world governments for help in refuting the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. election were met with ridicule Friday as observers mocked the suggestion that the CIA would never do such a thing. Warner, a Virginia […]

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'The Political System Is Failing Us': British Energy Dept Blockaded to Protest Climate Inaction and Fracking

Kicking off a week of peaceful protests that will culminate in a mass demonstration at London’s Parliament Square on Saturday, activists blockaded the United Kingdom’s energy department on Monday to raise alarm about the government’s support for fracking and, more broadly, “its criminal inaction on the climate emergency and ecological crisis.” Activists with Extinction Rebellion […]

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