The report confirmed that Saudi actions “objectively led to” 683 child casualties, and 38 verified incidents, including attacks on both schools and hospitals within Yemen. According to Reuters, a confidential draft of the latest UN blacklist on child victims of armed conflict included Saudi Arabia and its coalition related to the large number of children they’ve killed and Read More…
Human Rights
Las Vegas Shooting: 5 Stories You’re Missing While the Nation Is in Shock
The horrific shooting in Las Vegas Sunday evening continues to dominate headlines — and understandably so. As details continue to emerge and calls for gun control flood the national conversation, however, another familiar pattern is playing out: other vital stories are falling through the cracks. Here are five to follow as the nation processes one of the Read More…
US Mother Sentenced To 7 Days In Jail For Refusing To Vaccinate Her Son
Casting a spotlight on a highly controversial issue, a Michigan mother was jailed Wednesday for refusing to have her nine-year-old son vaccinated, the Associated Press reports. The case stems from a legal agreement the woman, Rebecca Bredow, had with her ex-husband to space out vaccinations for their son. When the shots began to get grouped together, the mother says, she Read More…
Media On North Korea: Easier To Demonize Than Try To Understand
U.S. campaigns for regime change characteristically focus on the “madness” of the “dictators” to be toppled. In the case of North Korea, the narrative is spiced by the country’s developing nuclear capabilities — which North Korea views as its main line of defense against . . . regime change. The media’s demonization of the Democratic People’s Read More…
The US Is Bombing Raqqa Into Complete Devastation — At Least 433 Civilians Killed
The United States has been bombing the Syrian city of Raqqa into complete devastation at the rate of at least one air-delivered munition every 8 minutes, according to monitoring group Airwars. The organization found that in August, there was a sharp increase in the number of bombs dropped by the U.S.-led coalition. This resulted in at Read More…
Ron Paul: What Did Washington Achieve In Its Six Year War On Syria?
Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country. Their original rationale for intervention has long been exposed as another lie. Remember Read More…






