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After abortion ban, Texas teen birth rate rises
The increase reverses a 15-year trend. And unwanted pregnancies will rise, researchers predict.
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Enslaved by nonprofits: How NGO’s colonize developing countries
November 21 marked the 28th anniversary of the signing of the U.S.-brokered Dayton Agreement, which brought an end to the proxy war in Bosnia after three years and eight months.
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Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress.
Public health cannot be individualized. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster.
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Sequencing Revolt: How Grandmothers Fought the Argentinian Military Dictatorship and Revolutionized Science
The dictatorship in Argentina—one of the cruelest and bloodiest in the region—was in full swing. Among the thirty thousand disappeared by the state were an estimated five hundred babies and children, either taken along with their parents or born in the camps under brutal, inhumane conditions. Their grandmothers would do anything to find them.
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March against genocide isn’t news to New York Times
It’s hard to get an independent estimate of the number of people who showed up—Palestinians and Americans of all ages and races, including Jewish Americans, arriving from all parts of the country.
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Canada’s oilsands are a toxic nightmare
The poisonous waste, and deadly carbon emissions produced by oilsands production is even worse than had been thought, and production must stop, argues John Clarke.
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The real border crisis: Texas vs. the Constitution
The United States is on the verge of a constitutional crisis, one that enlivens the nationalist fervor of Trump America and that centers on a violent, racist closed-border policy.
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More than a million and a half people hit the streets against Milei’s ‘adjustment’
The general strike against the austerity measures and the Omnibus Law was strongly felt throughout the country yesterday.
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From protest movements to revolutionary change
Brazilian informant says, “A lot of my generation were inspired by the Zapatistas… but how did we find out about them? From Rage Against the Machine.”
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‘Swarming’ the U.S. in West Asia, until it folds
The U.S. is so deeply mired in an unwinnable battle from the Levant to the Persian Gulf that only its adversaries in China, Russia, and Iran can bail it out.
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Canada imposes catch-all definition of “espionage” as part of bellicose anti-China furor
In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights, a Federal Court has endorsed the Canadian government’s imposition of a sweeping new definition of espionage.
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CITGO: A multi-billion dollar heist?
A detailed and interactive infographic to recap how CITGO came to face its looming breakup as creditors line up for a court-ordered auction.
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Cuba’s support goes far beyond mere words
TARIQ ANDERSON charts the support Cuba has been offering to Palestine and Palestinians since Che’s visit to Gaza in 1959.
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Which side are you on? Far-right deepens threats to trans lives, Biden stays silent
Threats of violence by neo-Nazis grow in tandem with the “official” attacks. Incursions by hate groups aimed at queer events and spaces are becoming more common even in “safe” cities like Los Angeles and Boston.
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Rafael Correa: Ecuador fell into the hands of narcos while the government was prosecuting me
Interview with the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, about the crisis in his country.
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The Biden administration’s absurd justification for its Yemen war
Shipping blockade which the de facto authorities in Yemen have implemented to pressure Israel and its allies into ceasing the genocidal onslaught in Gaza.
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One of the largest unions in the United States just called for a ceasefire in Gaza
The Service Employees International Union, which boasts two million members, joined a growing section of the U.S. labor movement in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Britain condemned for launching ‘largest raid so far on Yemen’
‘The violent repercussions of Israel’s war on Gaza are spreading across the Middle East, threatening a much wider conflict,’ Stop the War says.
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‘When you’re in a colonial situation, the colonial power initiates violence’
CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Gaza and genocide.
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A mass grave of hundreds of poor and oppressed people found in Mississippi
The extent of the mass grave became widely known after a Black man was run over by a police vehicle and buried in an unmarked grave, unbeknownst to his family.