The Pentagon confirmed that U.S. forces bombed a location in Somalia on Monday, though spokesperson Rear Adm. John Kirby said the “results of the operation” were still being assessed and that additional information would only be provided to the public “as and when appropriate.” Reuters reports: According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon “did not […]
The current “gutted” version of the U.S.A. Freedom Act (S. 2685) will only serve to legalize government’s currently illegal surveillance of innocent civilians, charged a coalition of whistleblowers and civil liberties organizations in a letter published Monday calling on members of Congress to reject the empty reform. “Governmental security agencies’ zeal for collecting Americans’ personal information without regard for […]
Their stories will never be fully known. Driven by conflict, poverty, famine or just a better life, over 4,000 migrants have died so far this year while making their journeys, a new tally from the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration finds. The grim numbers are outlined the organization’s new study, titled Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost […]
Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings. The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show […]
The third hunger strike this year is sweeping a for-profit immigrant detention center in Washington state as hundreds demand “dignity and justice towards immigrants,” including an end to the record-high level of deportations nationwide and the mistreatment of those held within the prison. Approximately 200 people detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington—run […]
On ballot measures across the nation, communities voted on key progressive issues. From raising the minimum wage to labeling genetically modified foods to ending corporate personhood, these local fights spotlight how communities are trying to take back their democracy. Yet these battles have largely been left out of corporate media coverage this election season. Look […]
The United Nations, which is working on an emergency footing to battle the outbreak of Ebola, is worried about the potential for further isolation of the hardest-hit nations in West Africa. “It’s a psychological fear,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told IPS. “And there has been a chain reaction.” He cautioned there should be no action which […]
The World Health Organization has failed to meet their December 1 goal for isolating and containing the deadly Ebola outbreak in many regions of West Africa, the United Nations reports. The targets, set in early October, aimed to get 70 per cent of the Ebola cases isolated and treated and to have 70 percent of […]
In what supporters are calling a “big victory for defying illegitimate authority,” the Department of Justice will reportedly not force New York Times journalist James Risen to testify against a source in court, an unnamed official told news outlets on Friday. According to a senior Justice Department official, Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered that […]
The ascendent leftwing Syriza Party in Greece is not the only progressive party in Europe seeing an increase in its popularity and political might on the basis of a consistent, two-pronged anti-austerity and pro-democracy platform. In Spain, the fledgling Podemos Party (translated as ‘We can’) has been surging in public opinion polls since it officially […]