Biden Owes Border Patrol Apology on Phony Charges of ‘Whipping’ Illegals
We are now past the sixth month mark since the administration called to investigate horse patrol agents engaging in illegally entering the U.S. with Haitian migrants. The administration still hasn’t released the completed investigation report. The administration appears content to allow the agents to spin the wind after making up career-ending, false allegations about the […]
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O’ahu Organizers Are Defending the Earth Against US Militarism
Oʻahu Water Protectors collect with indicators protesting the U.S. Navy and the Pink Hill Bulk Gas Storage Facility.Oʻahu Water Protectors via Twitter “The Pentagon has a blanket exemption from all world local weather agreements — in impact, a license to kill the pure world with out consequence,” says Kelly Hayes. On this episode of “Motion […]
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Arizona Senate Approves GOP Bill That Could Spur US’s “Most Extreme Voter Purge”
The Arizona Senate on Wednesday passed a Republican-authored bill that advocates warn could prompt “the most extreme voter purge in the country” by requiring state residents to retroactively provide proof of citizenship to stay on the rolls. Marilyn Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Creosote Partners in Arizona, is pictured here. arguedIn a Twitter thread H.B. […]
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UK Wants to Incarcerate Asylum Seekers “Offshore” on Abandoned Oil Rigs
Eighteen months ago, reports started to surface that Boris Johnson’s Conservative government in the U.K. was planning to detain would-be asylum seekers in places as far away as the South Atlantic. Some sites, such Ascension Island and others, are 4,000 milesFrom Britain. Johnson’s plan was actually a spinoff of a never-implemented idea put forward by […]
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New Texas Law Has Already Resulted in More Black Voters’ Ballots Being Tossed
The rate at which rejected mail ballots soared in the March primary elections in Texas — and those rejections disproportionately affected Democrats, especially Black voters in the state’s biggest county. An analysis by the Associated Press. According to the, the rejection rate for past elections was approximately 1% to 2%. Texas Tribune. The rejection rate […]
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Progressive Groups Decry Supreme Court Ruling That Tosses Out Wisconsin Maps
On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court sided for Republicans in Wisconsin’s legislature. This overturned state legislative maps approved by both Democratic Governors. Tony Evers, and the conservative majority state Supreme Court. The majority of the federal Supreme Court’s members voted in an unsigned decision said that the state court had not given enough considerationTo […]
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Don’t Turn Ukraine Into Another Afghanistan. We Need Peace Talks, Expert Says.
NATOThe G7 and European Council held unprecedented emergency meetings at Brussels on Thursday, as the Russian invasion in Ukraine entered its second month. NATOIt has announced plans to send more troops to Eastern Europe. The country’s troop presence in the region has already increased by a third from last month’s 40,000 to 30,000. Anatol Lieven […]
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Let’s Focus on Preventing Nuclear War, Rather Than Debating “Just War”
NATO leaders announced Wednesday that the alliance plans to reinforce its eastern front by deploying many more troops in countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — including thousands of U.S. troops — and sending “equipment to help Ukraine defend itself against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.” And while the NATO alliance itself is […]
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Disillusioned With Dems and GOP, Independents Now Largest Voter Group in the US
Winding 336 miles through Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties, the Central Arizona Project supplies water from the Colorado River to 80 percent of the state’s population and 40 percent of its farmlands. The U.S. Department of Interior has implemented a drought relief plan. Tier-1 shortage for the first time, which will cut 18 percent of […]
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From petrol to pasta: how war in Ukraine is hitting British pockets
That chancellor Rishi Sunak kicked off this week’s Spring Statement with a nod to the Ukrainian resistance is emblematic of its domination of global politics. Even prior to the Russian build-up of forces on Ukraine’s border and its subsequent invasion Britain was grappling with a cost of living crunch. Food prices and energy bills continue […]
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