Subjects Archives: Human Rights

Cartoonist Mr. Fish (real name Dwayne Booth) posted an update to his Patreon on March 20 headed “Fish: Laid Off!”

Following an AP investigation accusing a U.S. mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation.

The death toll from flash flooding in Texas continues to rise, now above 100, with many still missing and presumed drowned.

Israel Katz says the so-called ‘humanitarian city’ will be built on the ruins of Rafah.

The world professes reverence for childhood, but hollow platitudes about universal children’s rights aren’t meant for the colonized.

A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it.

Homelessness isn’t policy failure—it’s policy.

On the morning of January 21, 1960, 431 black and six white coal miners were entombed in a sudden collapse at Clydesdale Collieries near Coalbrook in Sasolburg, Free State Province.[1] The first rockfall took place at about 4:30 p.m. No one was killed or severely injured. While the rock still creaked and split, many of […]

In a ruling that stems from the president’s birthright citizenship order, the “conservative supermajority just took away lower courts’ single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration’s lawless excesses.”

In Gaza, starvation is weaponized, aid is corrupted, and humanitarianism is hijacked by profiteers and war criminals posing as saviors, as Taylor Miller exposes in this searing indictment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its genocidal complicity.

A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.

Court ruling means migrants can now be deported without the opportunity to contest their destinations.

If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.

CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness

Communists in Iran and Israel strongly condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Iran and President Donald Trump’s backing for it. 

Hundreds of U.S. veterans and allies have been fasting for weeks across the country, in protest against the ongoing war in Gaza.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has condemned Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, where relentless attacks continue and humanitarian aid remains severely restricted for over 2 million Palestinians facing starvation.

As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla approached Palestinian waters, a British spy flight took off from a British military base on Cyprus to surveil Gaza. Despite the recent narrative shift on relations with Israel, Britain remains deeply involved in the genocide of Palestinians, its efforts centred around its RAF Akrotiri military base on Cyprus, using it to launch these spy flights, which send intelligence, including targeting data, directly to the Israeli military.

For days, the world watched as California burned. Cars set ablaze, crowds being flash-banged, rubber bullets flying, smoke in the air as protesters and reporters run for cover, gasping for air and hurrying to put their masks on. The scenes on the ground gripped us all.