"Any amount of petroleum in our water is too much. 350 times the 'safe limit' is absolutely intolerable."
El Salvador's right-wing president is doing everything in his expanding power to shield the U.S.-backed officers responsible for the deaths of nearly 1,000 civilians in December 1981.
It is painful that the rulers of the rich countries have once again failed to address the magnitude of the crises we are going through.
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were honoured Friday. But 2021 has also seen record numbers of journalists jailed.
Perennial claims about precision "smart bombs" by the Pentagon and its boosters have been proven false again and again around the world, by the corpses of civilians—dehumanized as "collateral damage"—killed by U.S. weaponry.
One would think that Israel, which receives $3.8 billion annually from the U.S., would feel obligated not to drag the U.S. and their own people into such a disaster. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Trump and his supporters do not mean by "democracy" a liberal democracy. They mean the popular sovereignty of "true Americans."
"Such action undermines the critical role collective bargaining plays in providing workers a voice and the opportunity to improve their lives while contributing fully to their employer's success."
"This is essentially a government handout of up to tens of billions of dollars to the fossil fuel industry."
