The State Department’s new reports whitewash the records of some of the world’s most notorious nations and target Trump’s enemies.
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“The ability to use the military anywhere, anytime, for any purpose — it’s absolutely unprecedented.”
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Clocking in at nine whole pages — down from 103 in 2024 — the new State Department human rights report is “functionally useless.”
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Last Friday (August 1, 2025), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published their latest – Employment Situation Summary – for July 2025. What followed was somewhat extraordinary. The data and the revisions to the previous two months data releases (which is standard practice) showed that the US labour market is in decline. It starkly runs…
Pressure is mounting against Israel in the U.S. and around the world. Will it mean anything on the ground in Palestine?
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Columbia University President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of Trump's demands.
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“Under the guise of combatting antisemitism, new laws risk eroding core democratic principles, silencing legitimate dissent and redefining free speech as hate speech.”
The constitutional order will not defend us from a judge so committed to Trump’s presidential authoritarianism.
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“It seems incredibly hypocritical to suddenly be shocked by these images when every humanitarian agency has said no one can replace UNRWA.”
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A pending VA rule appears designed to strip crucial health care from hundreds of thousands of veterans in states with abortion bans.
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