Afraid “a sharp turn to the left could prove disastrous in the 2016 elections,” factions within the Democratic Party more closely aligned with Wall Street and other corporate interests than with the progressive left are “gathering their forces to fight back against the ‘Elizabeth Warren wing’ of their party,” The Hill reported Monday. Framed as…
Former Guantánamo Bay official Richard Zuley, who led “one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted” at the military prison, spent 25 years as a notoriously brutal Chicago detective, a new investigation by the Guardian published Wednesday has revealed. From 1977 to 2007, Zuley used torture, threats, and abuse to elicit confessions—at least…
How do you calculate the human costs of the U.S.-led War on Terror? On the 12th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, groups of physicians attempted to arrive at a partial answer to this question by counting the dead. In their joint report— —Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Global Survival, and the Nobel Prize-winning…
Liberal groups are fired up to push back on President Trump’s pick for Supreme Court justice, using his nomination to rally supporter—and donations—ahead of the looming confirmation battle. Trump tapped Judge Neil Gorsuch, who sits on the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Colorado, during a primetime announcement Tuesday night. Republicans and right-leaning groups…
A white, Atlanta-area police officer shot dead a naked, unarmed, and reportedly mentally ill African-American Air Force veteran at his apartment complex in Chamblee, Georgia on Monday, the third fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in the last five days. Witnesses said the victim, 27-year-old Anthony Hill, was acting erratically before the shooting—knocking…
Mickie James is currently out of action after suffering a broken nose. On the latest episode of her GAW TV with SoCal Val and Lisa Marie Varon (formerly known as Victoria in WWE), James revealed that she recently broke her nose during a match. James said she can’t wrestle for a couple of weeks due to the injury….
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women passed a resolution on Friday condemning the Israeli occupation as imposing a “grave situation” on Palestinian women. The motion (pdf) from the 45 member commission notes that “the Israeli occupation remains the major obstacle for Palestinian women with regard to their advancement, self-reliance and integration in…
Paying tribute to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, activist artists in Brooklyn early Monday surreptitiously installed a bust of his likeness to a war memorial. According to the publication Animal, which was given exclusive access to document the act, three unnamed New York City-based artists “hauled the 100-pound sculpture into Fort Greene Park and up its…
A week of civil disobedience, rallies, and student activism, all aimed at pressuring Harvard University to divest its $36 billion endowment from fossil fuels, came to an end on Friday with activist and academic Cornel West saying the elite school risked being on the wrong side of the “planetary Selma” that is climate change. “Ecological…
As the first full day of a tenuous ceasefire takes hold in Yemen, a top Iranian general has warned both the United States and Saudi Arabia against interferring with a cargo vessel, said to be carrying humanitarian aid, as it continued toward the coast of the war-torn nation. U.S. and Saudi officials have said Tehran’s…