Israel announced Wednesday it will refuse entry to United Nations human rights investigators who seek to probe potential war crimes committed in the latest 50-day military assault on Gaza. The 47-member UN Human Rights Council in July approved the inquiry into “all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied […]
In his first media interview since he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager on August 9, Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson said he “was sorry for the loss of Michael Brown’s life” and “understands the grief of Michael Brown’s parents” but “he has a clean conscience over his actions that day,” according to George […]
“We can’t pay! We won’t pay!” was the call of tens of thousands who took to the streets of Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday to protest a controversial water fee—the latest in a series of unpopular austerity measures imposed on the country’s citizens in recent years. The demonstration is timed to coincide with the International Day […]
Side-stepping a shifty exemption for fracking pollution known as the “Halliburton loophole,” the Environmental Protection Agency is fining the world’s largest natural gas company for dirtying West Virginia’s waterways. Click Here: los jaguares argentina The EPA, the Justice Department, and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) on Monday charged XTO Energy, a subsidiary […]
“For more than thirty years, too many politicians in Washington have made deliberate choices that favored those with money and power,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said at the AFL-CIO’s first National Summit on Raising Wages, held Wednesday in Washington, D.C. But by raising the minimum wage, supporting organized labor, breaking up big banks, and rejecting […]
Two activists are scheduled to appear in a federal district court in Chicago on Thursday, marking the first time that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)—which criminalizes protected speech and protest activities that cause an ‘animal enterprise’ to lose profits—will be legally challenged as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. Click Here: Bape Kid 1st […]
Romain Grosjean put his first points on the board for 2020 by finishing P8 in Sunday’s Eifel GP, a top-ten result the Haas driver feared he had achieved with a broken finger. Grosjean was following Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen in the opening laps of the race when the Finn ran wide on the exit of […]
Click:Crystal Chandeliers Just days ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union on Tuesday, the White House has announced plans for a major tax overhaul which would raise rates on the nation’s wealthiest individuals and increase fees for financial firms while offering an assortment of tax breaks designed to help the nation’s struggling middle class. […]
While defending Henry Kissinger during a dramatic protest during a Senate hearing on Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called those speaking out against the former Secretary of State as “low-life scum” as they were escorted from the hearing room by Capitol Police. Kissinger served under President Nixon and is widely reviled by human rights advocates […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim three years ago that Iran was within close reach of possessing a nuclear bomb was denied by his government’s own spy agency, Mossad, a top secret document obtained by Al Jazeera and the Guardian reveals. In a September 2012 address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu […]