“The increasing number of children going hungry in Yemen should shock us all into action. More children will die with every day that passes without action,” the report says. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Underscoring the urgent need to end…
A UN body determined five years ago today that Julian Assange was being arbitrarily detained in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Watch this live simulcast about that assessment & Assange’s current status as he awaits a U.S. appeal in his…
Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky call for an investigation of the failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi and others to break the chain of the infection.
UN special rapporteurs sign a statement decrying the attack but also calling on U.S. authorities to ensure “responses are consistent with international human rights standards.”
Trump arrived in Washington as a New York property man unfamiliar with the permanent DC establishment, but determined to make deals where others dare not go. Chaos was the result.
The UN high commissioner for human rights is probing “systemic racism, [and] violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies,” Marjorie Cohn reports.
Gross manipulation of CIA analysis under George W. Bush pushed a new generation of “yes men” into the agency’s top ranks and now one of them is being considered by Joe Biden for the top job, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers an address on “The State of the Planet” at Columbia University in New York.
An Iranian nuclear scientist’s assassination will bolster the hand of Iranian hardliners who don’t want a renewed nuclear deal with the incoming Biden administration, say Medea Benjamin & Ariel Gold.
Thalif Deen reports on a major cash crunch caused by late or non-payments amid the Covid-19 pandemic.