Diplomatic Failure – Libya’s Tentative Peace Falters as Haftar Rejects Russian Ceasefire

Promising signs that the Libyan civil war was approaching an end on Monday gave way to news on Tuesday that General Haftar walked away from a Russian-brokered ceasefire. Only a day after Russia’s foreign minister signaled that Libya’s warring parties were about to settle their long-standing differences, and thus end years of violence, institutional chaos [...]

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Pentagon Admits No Evidence Iran Planned To Attack US, Despite Trump Saying The Opposite

“The president didn’t cite a specific piece of evidence. What he said was he believed. I didn’t see one, with regard to four embassies.” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said over the weekend on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the Pentagon did not see specific intelligence evidence that Iran was planning to plot an attack [...]

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Why Koalas Burning Alive Won’t Change a Thing About the Climate Crisis

The fires ravaging Australia are yet another sign of the urgency needed to deal with the climate crisis.

But nothing is going to make a difference, because changing our path involves transforming our economy. The elite have no interest in genuine change as they gain their power from the current way of doing things.

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Big Data, Big Oil and White Supremacy: Unveiling the Dark Forces Behind Trump’s 2020 Reelection Campaign With Josh Fox

In his new solo performance piece “The Truth Has Changed,” the “Gasland” director raises an alarm: The Democrats are ill-prepared for Trump’s oncoming misinformation campaign. Josh Fox, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Gasland,” the documentary that started the global anti-fracking movement, is bringing a new message to audiences across the country with “The Truth [...]

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Russia Scores Breakthrough in Libya – Ceasefire Terms Agreed To

Libya’s warring parties are expected to sign a ceasefire and a ‘political settlement’ that will resolve the country’s seven-year-long civil war on Tuesday. Following intense negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow this Monday, Libya’s warring parties: Fayez al-Sarraj, head of Libya’s UN-recognised government, and his rival, General Khalifa Haftar finally agreed to the terms of [...]

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Alleged Whistleblower Tells FBI Russian State-Owned Bank Underwrote Trump Loans

“Whether by happenstance or by design Trump’s loans became underwritten by Russia’s own VTB. I informed the FBI of this in 2019.” Val Broeksmit does not fit the profile of a whistleblower. He was not Army Intelligence like Chelsea Manning, nor a contractor for the National Security Agency like Edward Snowden. Instead, Broeksmit is “an [...]

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Jay-Z, Yo Gotti Threaten to Sue State of Mississippi Over Prison Conditions

“If they don’t right this wrong, we’re prepared to take legal action to provide relief for those that are incarcerated and their families.” Rap mogul Jay-Z and hip-hop artist Yo Gotti wrote a letter to two top Mississippi officials Thursday, protesting the inhumane conditions of Mississippi prisons. They threatened to sue the state if the [...]

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10 Ways Trump’s Actions Against Iran Hurt Americans and the Region

Trump’s blunders have placed us back on the path to a truly catastrophic war, with barricades of lies blocking every off-ramp. The U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a full-scale war with Iran thanks to the Iranian government’s measured response, which demonstrated its capabilities without actually harming U.S. troops [...]

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Lebanon Must End ‘Kafala’ and the Rampant Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers

Lebanon’s kafala system exploits migrant domestic workers and leaves them prone to physical and emotional abuse, with many turning to suicide as their only way out. Lebanon is a country with a population of six million and has over 250,000 migrant domestic workers. The majority of these migrant workers are women that come from countries such [...]

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