Jan 17, 2019 | Defense and Military, North America
Medea Benjamin CODEPINK | Global Exchange | Co-Founder Nicolas J.S. Davies Author | Researcher EDITOR’S NOTES: One can only imagine the suffering of the people of unfortunate countries like Afghanistan and Iraq bombed into the Stone Age. Although US/NATO leads...
Jan 17, 2019 | Data Privacy
Jessica Corbett Staff Writer | Common Dream Journalist Rania Khalek, whose video was restored after public outcry, says the ability of social media giants “to disappear content as they please” is “creepy and alarming and should be loudly...
Jan 17, 2019 | South Asia, Women's Movement
Ashley Curtin Nation of Change | Editor & Reporter “We are taking the pledge that we will uphold Renaissance values, we will stand for equality for women, we resist the attempts to make Kerala a lunatic asylum, and we will fight for secularism.” In what’s being...
Jan 17, 2019 | Central Asia, Political Movements
Ann Scott Tyson Arms Control Association Ann Scott Tyson found reporting especially challenging in the western region of Xinjiang, where she went to witness the impact of China’s forced ‘reeducation’ of its Uyghur minority. But that work produced a rare and nuanced...
Jan 17, 2019 | Essay & Opinion, World Politics
Stephen Lendman Clarity Press | Author & Editor Washington’s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems, represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival. At his annual marathon Q & A news conference last week, Vladimir Putin...
