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Saudi Arabia, Belarus Among Countries Joining US-Led Coalition Claiming Women Have 'No International Right to Abortion'

"This administration doesn't seem content to stop until it has fully trampled on the rights, autonomy, and dignity of women and girls everywhere."

Julia Conley ·

U.S. Border Patrol agents process immigrants from Central America while taking them into custody on August 17, 2016 near Roma, Texas. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

The Far Right's War on the World

It's time to flip the script. We are indeed in the fight of our lives.

John Feffer ·

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left) and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (in light jacket)

Re-Reflections on the Start of World War II

It is worth our while to try to disentangle some of the realities of the war from the mythologies we so love to worship

Robert Freeman ·

Hate-Fest in Warsaw

While Trump’s people were fulminating in Warsaw against Iranian 'terrorism', it was Iran that was the victim of terrorist attacks.

Eric Margolis ·

Pence, Bibi

Mistranslated or Not, Israeli PM's 'War With Iran' Tweet Sparks Grave Concerns

"Whether the prime minister's words were intentionally muddled or not, his provocative message needs no interpretation."

Jessica Corbett ·

the Woolsey Fire

Global Poll Reveals Surging Fear of Climate Crisis and US Power Under Trump

Over the past five years, from the U.S. to Poland to Kenya, the number of people worried about the climate crisis has risen by double-digits

Jessica Corbett ·

Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic would join NATO, hauling in billions of dollars of arms sales. Ten more countries would join over the next nine years, bringing NATO’s military to Russia’s doorstep. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

“Fort Trump” in Poland Is Another Dangerous, Delusional Idea

Even talking about a new military base in Poland shows how far US foreign policy toward Russia has descended into stupidity and recklessness

Mark Weisbrot ·

"In the two months since our first action, we have expanded more than we imagined," Liam Geary Baulch, a U.K.-based Extinction Rebellion activist, told The Guardian. "We are now planning to change our structure so it can accommodate up to two million people." (Photo: Extinction Rebellion)

As Uprising Spreads Across Globe, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky Among Signers of Open Letter Backing Extinction Rebellion

"The climate crisis is worsening much faster than previously predicted. This desperate situation can't continue."

Jake Johnson ·

'These False Solutions Are a Joke': Trump's Pro-Coal Panel at COP24 Shut Down With Laughter by Climate Campaigners

"Trump's attempts to pander to coal industry executives despite deafening alarms that burning more fossil fuels will lead to more destructive climate catastrophes is more than just willful ignorance—it's criminally irresponsible."

Jake Johnson ·

UN Secretary General António Guterres seated next to 15-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who explained that while the world consumes an estimated 100 million barrels of oil each day, "there are no politics to change that. There are no politics to keep that oil in the ground. So we can longer save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed." (Photo: UNFCC COP24 / Screenshot)

'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We Have Come to Let Them Know Change Is Coming'

"We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules," says Greta Thunberg, "because the rules have to be changed."

Jon Queally ·

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