Category: Human Rights
Dave Lindorff: Why Hasn’t the US Been Kicked off the UN Human Rights Council?
Medea Benjamin: Women’s Delegation Urges U.S. & Europe to Unfreeze Afghan Funds
Jake Johnson: Afghanistan Facing ‘Total Collapse’
Mark Weisbrot: Biden’s Sanctions on Afghanistan
Jonathan Cook: The West’s Hands in Ukraine Are as Bloody as Putin’s
Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Says Torture at CIA Black Site Is a “State Secret”
Olivia Riggio: NBC Off by 18 Years on US’s Last Use of Cluster Bombs
Nick Turse: War Torn
Jessica Corbett: Prioritize Peace and Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine Over Weapons
It’s embarrassing to be a journalist these days in the US where a 1960s Pravda-like squad of lickspittle stenographers posing as reporters dutifully report on Russia’s latest crimes in Ukraine
Interview on the release of funding for Afghan civilians
Biden Refuses to Release Central Bank Assets
Shuaib Almosawa: As U.S. Focuses on Ukraine, Yemen StarvesBiden vowed to stop supporting the Saudi-led war. A year later, Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is worse by many accounts than when Trump was president
The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country
Ukrainians will pay the price to wear down Russia, just as Syrians, Libyans, Iranians, Yemenis, Venezuelans and Palestinians have paid the price as the U.S. has sought to attain the goals of its globe-spanning imperial project
Abu Zubaydah is “the poster child for the torture program, and that’s why they never want him to be heard from again.”
NBC Nightly News falsely reported that the United States has not used cluster bombs since 1991
Continental Drifters and the Nationless Nation
As Congress considers spending $6.4 billion or more, William D. Hartung suggests that “the bulk of new funding should be for humanitarian aid, not guns and troops”