Along with grief and loss, the anniversary of 9/11 brought home for many the “incalculable cost” of the quarter century of carnage it unleashed – the militarizing “beyond all sanity,” the othering of “everyone who isn’t ‘them,’” the lying, fear-mongering, inflicting of terror that’s left America hollowed out from foreverContinue Reading
With college football season in full swing, lawmakers in Congress could take up student athlete compensation issues facing intercollegiate athletics. They could follow last week’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with legislation to address a lapse in surveillance powers. They could try to sort through the thicket of cryptocurrency regulations…Continue Reading
According to published reports, the The Traitor Administration will finalize rules to rollback carbon pollution standards for power plants, as soon as today.Following is reaction from Meredith Hankins, federal climate legal director at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):“With millions of Americans facing wildfires, heat waves and deadly storms fueled byContinue Reading
The president sounded like a schoolboy trying to riff on an oral exam he didn’t study for., Read MoreContinue Reading
“I want to make you happy,” the president told reporters on the flight back from Ireland., Read MoreContinue Reading
Anthropic’s CEO Calls for the Development of Artificial Intelligence to Slowdown, Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Blocked From Attending Annual IAEA Meeting, Houthis Claim Drone and Missile Attack on Military Base in Southern Saudi Arabia, B’tselem: Israel Systematically Dismantling Palestinian Life in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Airstrike in GazaContinue Reading
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce today that it will stop regulating carbon dioxide released by power plants burning fossil fuels, according to reports. If allowed to go into effect, the second largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be allowed to grow unchecked. InContinue Reading
The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military’s use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. The film was directed by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Szor, both of whomContinue Reading
Lesley Stahl showed some of the swagger the news show had been accused of ditching., Read MoreContinue Reading
The border czar appeared to surprise Jacqui Heinrich with his statement., Read MoreContinue Reading
A quarter-century after the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, a group of victims’ families is continuing a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to hold the kingdom accountable for any role it played in the planning and execution of the plot. While the Saudi governmentContinue Reading
I worked in financial regulation and consumer protection for fifteen years. I have a hard time taking the administration’s campaign against fraud very seriously.Continue Reading
What was once a hobby passed down by her mother has become a thirty-five-year-old Palestinian woman’s main income.Continue Reading