“Nothing in the US policy [on the Israel-Palestine conflict] focuses on equality, we should be very clear about that. And in that context I think the fact that [Biden] raised Shireen [Abu Akleh]’s killing only in the context of, ‘It’s a...
FEATURING PHYLLIS BENNIS – Donald Rumsfeld, a man who served as Defense Secretary in two separate administrations, and who was best known for overseeing the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has died at the age of 88. Republicans hailed Rumsfeld as a “patriot” and...
President Joe Biden is moving full steam ahead with a political agenda that has split the difference between his ambitious campaign platform and his centrist Democratic Party roots. Promoting an ambitious $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan, the President is...
The US has expanded its sanctions against the Venezuelan Administration of Nicolás Maduro into a complete economic embargo. The move is intended to pressure Maduro as well as nations like China and Russia that have supported his government. … Read the full...
President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon capitulated in the battle over a government shutdown that stretched more than a month. In a speech on the White House lawn he agreed to back a deal to temporarily fund the government through mid-March and buy time for further...
FEATURING DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD – Ahead of what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 90th birthday, there are obligatory memorials and retrospectives remembering his critical work on civil rights. But near the end of his short life Dr. King took on the...
The Republican-dominated House just passed a blueprint for a federal budget with a slim majority. The vote clears the way for the GOP to try to pass Donald Trump’s ambitious tax reform plan that will add $1.5 trillion to the federal deficit, despite the party’s...
The Iraqi government recently declared victory in Mosul, the stronghold of the Islamic State. Many months of fighting, bombing, and shelling has reduced the once grand and historic city to rubble while tens of thousands of its residents have fled. Despite Iraq’s...
US war ships are edging closer to North Korea as Donald Trump communicates with China’s leadership about the “menace of North Korea.” In a phone call this week Trump spoke with President Xi Jinping about North Korean missile testing some weeks ago. On Tuesday Trump...
Undocumented immigrants of all backgrounds are worried about living in Donald Trump’s America. Today we’ll focus on undocumented Filipino immigrants, who are part of the largest growing immigrant group in the nation: Asians. The latest US Census finds that there are...
The Trump administration last week took steps to withdraw guidance that the Obama administration had given to schools for protections of transgender students. Under Title IX of a 1972 law protecting school children from sex discrimination, former Attorney General...
