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The U.S. publication pv magazine reported on 16 August 2022 that a large quantity of Chinese solar panels had been seized by U.S. customs authorities. The seizure were carried out under U.S. anti-China legislation, the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” (UFLPA).

The use of PFM-1 explosives against civilians is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions—but this evidently isn’t stopping Ukraine.

Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike.

Rhode Island is using COVID stimulus money to become a public housing developer — a monumental first step towards building a just housing delivery system.

A June poll reveals American citizens’ anxieties on paying for housing in the coming year.

“Unfortunately, it’s now in vogue for the losers of some elections nationwide to attempt to reverse elections by any means they think are necessary,” said Starbucks Workers United.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the buffoonish British PM as one of Ukraine’s closest allies. If and when Johnson leaves office, he is tipped for a role as Ukraine Envoy.

The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, during his campaign promised to reform the country’s uniformed police.

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Half a century after the 1970s’ stagflation, economies are slowing, even contracting, as prices rise again. Thus, the World Bank warns, “Surging energy and food prices heighten the risk of a prolonged period of global stagflation reminiscent of the 1970s.” 

These days Cuba is recovering from an unprecedented fire, which has kept Matanzas, the whole island, and especially rescuers, firefighters, and authorities on full alert since the night of August 5.

The United States is still plundering Syrian oil, stealing the country’s resources via illegal border crossings and siphoning them out to further line its pockets.

In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, immortal Hague fugitive Henry Kissinger says the U.S. is acting in a crazy and irrational way that has brought it to the edge of war with Russia and China.

Last week, Ukraine’s foreign private creditors agreed to the country’s request for a two-year freeze on payments on about $20bn of foreign debt.

Why were people so ready to believe that Heard was lying–about everything?

Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.

In some cases, these “chemical releases” aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.

Parents were angry at the Biden administration’s resumption of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia on August 2, one week ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Yemen school bus children attack on August 9.

My name is Faina Savenkova and I am 13 years old.

Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media.

Israel’s supporters are crowing that the Gaza attack was successful, but these advocates have blinded themselves to the moral dimension of such awful force.