Puerto Rico’s infrastructure, which already faced severe pressures because of the U.S. territory’s huge debt and demands from its creditor, has now been devastated by Hurricane Maria, as Dennis J Bernstein reports.
Category: Human Rights
Ignoring Today’s ‘Great Hungers’
Shielding Saudis on Yemen Atrocities
Challenging the Saudi Air War on Yemen
Why Trump Slaps Down Minority Protests
How 2nd Amendment Distortions Kill
Exclusive: The Las Vegas massacre underscores the intellectual dishonesty of the “gun rights” lobby, which falsifies Second Amendment history and pretends armed citizens could shoot back to stop slaughters, writes Robert Parry.
America Not Immune from Chaos
Pilger Criticizes Ken Burns’s ‘The Vietnam War’
For decades, the U.S. mainstream media has shied away from a clear-eyed view of the Vietnam War, not wanting to offend the war’s apologists, a residue of which tainted the recent PBS series, as John Pilger told Dennis J Bernstein.