In the interview that follows, Noam Chomsky reflects on the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and offers us his own insights on what may lie ahead in a country where a very sizable segment of the population still believes in Trump’s lies. Noam Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most important …Oct 18, 2023 · In a viral post on X, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis ignited an intense debate about selective condemnation and moral outrage surrounding Israel’s massive bombardment of Gaza, which the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations described as “nothing less than genocidal.”. Varoufakis stated: I condemn every killing with equal ... March 22, 2024. Former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company — and the parent of his favorite communications platform, Truth Social — became a public …The U.S. led the way in approving new oil and gas projects over the past two years, GEM’s analysis found. The oil & gas industry persists in development of new …Keep It Short. For writers not previously published by Truthout, we suggest opinion submissions be limited to 750 words, news analysis to 1,200 words and straight news stories to 2,000 words. Please send final drafts only. Our staff is small and revisions are time-consuming. If intervening events between …In a highly unusual move, the White House has requested for it to be able to conduct arms deals with Israel in complete secrecy, without oversight from Congress or the public — in a time when the U.S. is supporting a military that experts say has been committing war crimes in Gaza and beyond. The White House …Jan 30, 2020 · The Bernie Blackout “The Bernie blackout is real; it is not just a figment of our imagination. It almost seems like every morning these networks get a script that says ‘blackout Bernie Sanders,’” said the national campaign co-chair of Sanders’s presidential campaign, Nina Turner, on a December 5, 2019, episode of “The Rising.” Yet, although it has been 20 years since the invasion of Iraq, no U.S. leaders have been indicted. The Obama administration’s Department of Justice actively decided not to prosecute anyone for the torture and abuse committed during the Bush regime. Yet it only took one year for the ICC to charge Putin with war …That changed on December 29 when South Africa, a state party to the Genocide Convention, filed an 84-page application in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) alleging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. South Africa’s well-documented application alleges that “acts and omissions by Israel … are genocidal in ...Members of the Hillside Villa Tenants Association rally in front of a banner that says "Stop Breaking Families Apart" on August 12, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. This year marks the sixth year that the Hillside Villa Tenants Association (HSVTA) has been engaged in a ceaseless struggle to protect their homes in Los …Feb 16, 2024 · Spencer Platt / Getty Images. Donald Trump has reportedly been telling people in his close circle that he favors the idea of a nationwide abortion ban, despite remaining relatively quiet about his support of abortion bans in public, a new report finds. According to New York Times reporting by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan published Friday ... In a vicious five-day assault, Israeli occupying forces killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza. A Palestinian child pulls his bicycle out of a destroyed house after a raid by Israeli forces on the Balata refugee camp in West Bank, Palestine, on May 22, 2023. On May 18, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza joined the “ Palestine Flag March ” to protest ...Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images. Last week, Israeli leaders struck an agreement with Hamas to implement a four-day pause in bombardments in Gaza after weeks of Israeli attacks that have killed over 14,500 Palestinians. But Israeli forces have continued killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza throughout the …George Yancy. George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery fellow at Dartmouth College. He is also the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural fellow in the Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellowship Program (2019-2020 academic year). He is the author, editor and co-editor of over 20 ...The Biden administration recently expressed outrage that Russia arrested journalist Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal, a United States citizen based in Moscow, for practicing journalism. Gershkovich is now incarcerated in Russia, facing espionage charges that could garner him 20 years in prison.A video of Roger Stone from the documentary "A Storm Foretold" is played during a hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on October 13, 2022 in Washington, …Invest in Truthout. Major gifts from individuals as well as support from family funds and foundations are increasingly important to helping Truthout plan for the future and fulfill our mission. If you are interested in investing in Truthout, please email us at [email protected] or call us at (877) 766-6476.Updated 1:15 PM PDT, March 26, 2024. NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Donald Trump’s social media company rose about 16% in the first day of trading on the Nasdaq, …Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line, including Gaza, encompass 7.503 million — or 51.16 percent, a majority. Between 59 and 65 percent of people living between the river and the sea oppose the Israeli occupation. Israel’s “undisclosed Zionist Long Game,” Falk wrote at Just World Educational, “aims at …Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images. Last week, Israeli leaders struck an agreement with Hamas to implement a four-day pause in bombardments in Gaza after weeks of Israeli attacks that have killed over 14,500 Palestinians. But Israeli forces have continued killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza throughout the …Socialism is especially appealing to Black Americans (60% now vs. 53% in 2019) and women (45% now vs. 41% in 2019), two groups that would benefit disproportionately from the downward redistribution of resources and power. Less than half of women in the U.S. (48%) view capitalism in a positive light, down from …Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line, including Gaza, encompass 7.503 million — or 51.16 percent, a majority. Between 59 and 65 percent of people living between the river and the sea oppose the Israeli occupation. Israel’s “undisclosed Zionist Long Game,” Falk wrote at Just World Educational, “aims at …Nicholas Powers is the author of Thirst, a political vampire novel, and The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street, both published by Upset Press.He has been writing for Truthout since 2011. His article, “Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life” in the Truthout anthology Who Do …It is becoming increasingly obvious that this is now a U.S./NATO-Russia war, Noam Chomsky argues in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows, excoriating the idea that, in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there needs to be a stronger NATO rather than a negotiated settlement to the conflict. “Those calling for a stronger NATO ...Feb 16, 2024 · A GOP-sponsored bill in Oklahoma, HB 3216, passed a legislative hurdle on Wednesday when it passed out of committee. HB 3216 would ban emergency contraception in the state and create a state database of people who have had an abortion. “If the bill doesn’t get changed with the current wording then IUDs and Plan B could be inaccessible to ... 4 days ago · Truthout. March 27, 2024. The New York Times building stands in Midtown on February 7, 2024, in New York City. Spencer Platt / Getty Images. A recent study conducted by Media Matters and GLAAD reveals that in the year following public backlash for its coverage of anti-trans legislation, The New York Times neglected to include transgender voices ... Truth Out West - FacebookOct 25, 2023 · Montinique Monroe / Getty Images. Lubbock County, Texas, is now the fourth and largest county in the state to pass an anti-abortion ordinance that would bar pregnant Texans from traveling to access an out-of-state abortion. Lubbock now joins three other Texas counties — Goliad, Mitchell and Cochran — that have passed similar anti-abortion ... To the north, in the Bronx, sprawls the nation’s poorest district. Just last week, the New York Times reported that, based on 2022 census data, “the wealthiest fifth of Manhattanites earned an average household income of $545,549, or more than 53 times as much as the bottom 20 percent, who earned an average of $10,259.”.The Labor Department recently reported that consumer prices climbed 3.2 percent over the past 12 months. The link between heat and rising food prices is intuitive …Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images. In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, many supporters of Israel have doubled down on the idea that Jews can only be safe in a state whose government they control through majority rule and laws favoring Jews over non-Jews. This idea — a fundamental tenet of Zionism, first articulated by ...Feb 12, 2024 · Most members of the court all but ignored Trump’s participation in the January 6 insurrection, the greatest threat to the survival of the republic since the Civil War. Indeed, Section 3 was enacted after the Civil War to disqualify people from holding office who had served in government prior to the war but then supported the Confederacy. The Supreme Court recently blocked the Biden administration’s plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt. The decision disappointed 43 million borrowers owing $1.6 trillion in student debt. Regardless, the failure of the Biden plan misdirects us from the root problem: It’s not that student loan borrowers need debt …Truthout recently visited the laundromat to get a firsthand look at how the kiosk operates. To execute a conversion of $40 into Bitcoin, the company disclosed that it was charging a $3 service fee but didn’t mention that the exchange rate it offered was 20 percent less favorable to buyers than the going market rate. Users must check prices ...Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, called the UN report “scathing.” “The United States touts itself as a beacon of democracy and human rights, yet the Committee’s findings prove that this could not be further from the truth, underscoring the critical need to prioritize and strengthen human rights at home and establish a National Human Rights …Jan 14, 2024 · It took until July 19, 2023, for The New York Times to finally report the story. The corporate media has also largely ignored efforts by Clean Creatives, a movement of workers within the most prominent advertising and PR agencies, to end their employers’ ties to fossil fuel companies. The movement now has support from some 2,000 individuals ... Dana Elborno, MD, is a Palestinian American physician who works as an OB/GYN and has been protesting the occupation of the Palestinian people since she was 16 years old. She turns to poetry, faith and her 9-year-old French bulldog, Vinny, to heal from grief and find hope. The Palestinians who are suffering and being killed in Gaza are our families.In a viral post on X, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis ignited an intense debate about selective condemnation and moral outrage surrounding Israel’s massive bombardment of Gaza, which the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations described as “nothing less than genocidal.”. Varoufakis stated: I condemn every killing with equal ...Truthout celebrates 20 years of pursuing our mission of transparent, accountable, honest and brave journalism.John Anthony Castro, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, has petitioned the U.S. District Court of Alaska to declare Donald Trump ineligible to appear on the state’s election ballot. Castro has filed similar lawsuits in more than two dozen states, with nine legal challenges remaining active after three states have dismissed the lawsuits.Perhaps anticipating that the ex-CEO would insist that Starbucks has never broken the law, Democrats on the HELP Committee released a report on Monday debunking “myths” perpetuated by the company. In the 13-page document with dozens of citations, the lawmakers laid out a litany of actions from the company debunking its claims.Zane McNeill is a trending news writer at Truthout. They have a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Central European University and is currently enrolled in law school at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. They can be found on Twitter: @zane_crittheory. News.The War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock already ran out. Stephen Miles, the president of Win Without War, called the U.S. strikes on Yemen “deeply troubling,” arguing that “it’s an action clearly at odds with both the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution.”. “Congressional authorization isn’t some sort of …We have drawn from those lessons to launch the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, a program to assist other social justice-driven media …The issue is that Zionist speech has been manifestly well-protected, while advocacy for Palestinians has been outright criminalized. “Repression and ‘cancel culture,’ what they call the ‘progressive except Palestine’ exception — that has been …Over the past several years, we’ve witnessed growing calls to label anti-Zionism as antisemitism. Since Hamas’s October 7 attack and Israel’s subsequent military assault on Gaza, however, Israel advocates have doubled down yet further politically on this cynical accusation. On November 28, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a ...December 8, 2023. IMAGINESTOCK / Moment / Getty Images. A newly inaugurated school board president in a Philadelphia suburb took an oath of office Monday evening by placing her hand on a stack of books that have been targeted by book bans. Karen Smith, an incumbent member of the Central Bucks School District …The corporate media has also largely ignored efforts by Clean Creatives, a movement of workers within the most prominent advertising and PR agencies, to end their employers’ ties to fossil fuel companies. The movement now has support from some 2,000 individuals and 800 agencies who have pledged not to work for fossil fuel polluters.Current U.S. policy is to “fight to the last Ukrainian” while offering no way to save Ukraine from further tragedy. Russia's President Vladimir Putin writes as he chairs a meeting on economic issues in Moscow on February 17, 2022. Russia’s war in Ukraine is producing an earthquake in international affairs. The war has raised new questions ...Perhaps anticipating that the ex-CEO would insist that Starbucks has never broken the law, Democrats on the HELP Committee released a report on Monday debunking “myths” perpetuated by the company. In the 13-page document with dozens of citations, the lawmakers laid out a litany of actions from the company debunking its claims.The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools. By. Alyssa Bowen , Ansev Demirhan , Lisa Graves , T ruthout. January 26, 2024. Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call. The last week of every January, right-wing groups like Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity promote “National …The number 42 is displayed above a gate on the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on May 10, 2023. The cruel Trump-era immigration policy known as Title 42 expires today, but human rights defenders have nothing to celebrate. The Biden administration has swiftly replaced the unlawful and restrictive immigration policy ...Feb 16, 2024 · A GOP-sponsored bill in Oklahoma, HB 3216, passed a legislative hurdle on Wednesday when it passed out of committee. HB 3216 would ban emergency contraception in the state and create a state database of people who have had an abortion. “If the bill doesn’t get changed with the current wording then IUDs and Plan B could be inaccessible to ... Trump is facing charges in New York state court for falsifying business records to hide his adulterous behavior with Stormy Daniels from voters during the 2016 election. …Twenty years ago this week, President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The act, signed into law on February 8, 1996, was “essentially bought and paid for by corporate media lobbies,” as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) described it, and radically “opened the floodgates on mergers.”.The Vote to Stop Cop City Coalition in Atlanta submitted more than 116,000 signatures on Monday to put a referendum about the embattled police training complex on the ballot for local voters, but city officials quickly refused to validate the signatures and move the petition along due to an ongoing legal fight over the signature-gathering ...On its face, that may sound like a heavy sanction — however, it works out to a mere $15,138 per child. As Professor Richard D. Wolff pointed out, the entire $1.5 million amounts to 0.05 percent of the company’s 2021 sales. Remarkably, these abysmally low fines are not the result of some decades-old statute.We have drawn from those lessons to launch the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, a program to assist other social justice-driven media …Both JHA and the Chicago-based Uptown People’s Law Center (UPLC) receive letters every winter from people incarcerated in dangerously cold prisons in Illinois. UPLC Executive Director Alan Mills told Truthout that complaints come most frequently from the state’s three maximum-security prisons, the newest of which was built in the 1920s.The greatest threat to Jews comes from white supremacists and the far right — not Palestinians and anti-Zionists. People listen to speakers and hold signs during a pro-Palestine protest on the steps of City Hall on May 23, 2021, in Louisville, Kentucky. Keen observers have long noted that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is essentially a ...March 22, 2024. Former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company — and the parent of his favorite communications platform, Truth Social — became a public …Mouths Full of Blood: Trump and His Backers Spread Lies, Violence and Fascism. Death threats have become rampant as MAGA culture twists norms and makes once-marginal forms of violence mainstream. By. Henry A. Giroux , T ruthout. September 23, 2023. Op-Ed.As of March 2023, Pennsylvania’s two women’s prisons confined 1,871 women, trans and gender-nonconforming people. Of those, 197 — or over 10 percent — are serving life without parole sentences. Given their relatively small percentage, the experiences of people sentenced to death by incarceration are often overlooked and under-reported.Feb 12, 2024 · Most members of the court all but ignored Trump’s participation in the January 6 insurrection, the greatest threat to the survival of the republic since the Civil War. Indeed, Section 3 was enacted after the Civil War to disqualify people from holding office who had served in government prior to the war but then supported the Confederacy. Dec 11, 2023 · Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images. In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, many supporters of Israel have doubled down on the idea that Jews can only be safe in a state whose government they control through majority rule and laws favoring Jews over non-Jews. This idea — a fundamental tenet of Zionism, first articulated by ... The mass mobilization against the military-style 85-acre police training facility will take place November 10-13. Environmental activists reoccupy the Weelaunee Forest, a preserved forest that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, on March 4, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. In April, as the Atlanta Police Foundation erected high ...It is impossible to accurately grasp the current situation without discussing the concept of settler colonialism. Palestinians walk through debris along a street in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment in Al-Karama district in Gaza City, on October 11, 2023. Much of the mainstream U.S. coverage of the recent Hamas attacks in Israel and Israel ...Jul 3, 2023 · The rally was held to protest Senate Bill 1718, anti-immigrant legislation that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislators passed and become law this month. Protests against Florida bill SB 1718 have erupted across the state after the bill went into effect on Saturday. Under the law, Florida no longer recognizes driver’s licenses ... On Truthout’s 14th birthday, the Truthout team shares what “independent media” means to us. By. Staff , T ruthout. September 10, 2015. (Image: Jared Rodriguez …Truthout celebrates 20 years of pursuing our mission of transparent, accountable, honest and brave journalism.Oct 25, 2023 · Montinique Monroe / Getty Images. Lubbock County, Texas, is now the fourth and largest county in the state to pass an anti-abortion ordinance that would bar pregnant Texans from traveling to access an out-of-state abortion. Lubbock now joins three other Texas counties — Goliad, Mitchell and Cochran — that have passed similar anti-abortion ... Oct 18, 2023 · In a viral post on X, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis ignited an intense debate about selective condemnation and moral outrage surrounding Israel’s massive bombardment of Gaza, which the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations described as “nothing less than genocidal.”. Varoufakis stated: I condemn every killing with equal ... Truth definition: the true or actual state of a matter. See examples of TRUTH used in a sentence.NEW YORK (AP) — Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is social networking site Truth Social, will begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market on …Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is funded through donations. Analysis / Bias. In review, Truthout is a progressive news and opinion website focused on social justice and the environment. There is significant use of loaded emotional language that favors the left such as this: Scapegoating Unions for the Postal Service’s Phony Crisis.Nicholas Powers is the author of Thirst, a political vampire novel, and The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street, both published by Upset Press.He has been writing for Truthout since 2011. His article, “Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life” in the Truthout anthology Who Do …
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Nicholas Powers is the author of Thirst, a political vampire novel, and The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street, both published by Upset Press.He has been writing for Truthout since 2011. His article, “Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life” in the Truthout anthology Who Do …As Noam Chomsky notes in this exclusive interview for Truthout, Biden is carrying on a U.S. tradition: Relations with Saudi Arabia “have always proceeded amicably, undisturbed by its horrifying record of human rights abuses, which persists.”. Security also likely figures in the equation of Biden’s trip, particularly with regard to Israel.After two harrowing years, both women were completely exonerated. Racism and violence are the core elements at work in Trump’s endless barrage of lies. As Eli Zaretsky notes, “Trump’s racism is linked to his willingness to deploy violence in order to foster identification.”. Robinson has described the LGBTQ community as "filth," and has called for a total abortion ban in the state. By Chris Walker, Truthout. To donate by check, phone, bitcoin, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT This is a difficult time for media orgs and donations…. Missing in a lot of the circulating narratives, however, is the indisputable role that the powerful Christian Zionist movement plays, both now and in the long and bloody history of the colonization of Palestine. Christian Zionists are leading the call for the U.S. to unconditionally support Israel’s expulsion of …By. Gabriel Arkles , T ruthout. August 4, 2022. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 depicts a new social institution as the basis of day-to-day life: the commune. Common Notions. In 2018, Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes called for a “radical reimagining” in how we respond to harm, writing, “It’s time ...The Vote to Stop Cop City Coalition in Atlanta submitted more than 116,000 signatures on Monday to put a referendum about the embattled police training complex on the ballot for local voters, but city officials quickly refused to validate the signatures and move the petition along due to an ongoing legal fight over the signature-gathering ...It is becoming increasingly obvious that this is now a U.S./NATO-Russia war, Noam Chomsky argues in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows, excoriating the idea that, in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there needs to be a stronger NATO rather than a negotiated settlement to the conflict. “Those calling for a stronger NATO ...El Paso, Texas, has increasingly become the subject of an intense national conversation. The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal report that migrant surges are straining the city, the country and the economy. These are just three headlines from a barrage of coverage of the “crisis” at the border.Donate to Truthout. To donate by check, phone, bitcoin, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. This is a difficult time for media orgs and donations to Truthout are down. Your support amplifies the voices of journalists, activists and changemakers who are working hard to improve this country.Greg Nash-Pool / Getty Images. Democrats in Congress have reintroduced a proposal to ban the harmful, anti-LGBTQ practice of “conversion therapy” as Republicans are ramping up legislative and ideological attacks on LGBTQ people across the country. The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, …Christian nationalists, including Johnson, “are zeroed in on defeating democracy,” Huffman added. “Violence is a feature, not a bug, of this movement and we need to take it very, very seriously.”. The CFC’s report recognizes that it’s “the right of every American,” including Mike Johnson, “to freely practice [their] faith as ....