by Derek Seidman, Truthout... More


While many around the world are extending a helping hand to China in the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic, some U.S. politicians once again are hyping up their same old talk of the so-called China threat.... More


By Marjorie Cohn / Truthout... More


U.S. President Donald Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend for the 29th golf-related trip of his presidency to his for-profit Palm Beach, Florida, resort, raising his total taxpayer golf tab to $133.8 million.... More


The U.S. war machine demonstrated total disdain for its upstart rival, and unleashed an illegal war based on lies that has now raged on through many phases of violence and chaos for 17 years. by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies... More


Every year, the burning of fossil fuels claims four-million lives, including children, especially those living in low-income countries. The main victims, warns a report by Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, are the impoverished people of the world. ... More


As China works closely with the international community to combat the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), certain western media outlets are generating viciously misleading reports, undercutting global efforts to end the epidemic.... More


For a nation, the greatest glory consists not in never falling, but rising when it falls.... More


The novel coronavirus outbreak has put the world on alert. While many in the international community are joining China to battle the epidemic, prejudice and discrimination are playing a shameful role that could discourage the very collective campaign.... More


A new report by Oxfam highlights how poverty is both gendered and socially entrenched.... More


All eyes are on the U.S. Senate this week for the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, only the third presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history. But another important trial is happening at the same time, far from the eyes of the public, at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Behind the razor-wire fencing of “Camp Justice,” five of the remaining 41 Guantanamo prisoners sit through more pretrial hearings, almost 20 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks they are charged with perpetrating.... More


It was to be expected that the de facto government of Bolivia should join in the lies that Washington is attempting to sell to the world public opinion about the Cuban medical personnel that brings its aid, full of solidarity, to other nations. ... More


President Donald Trump is expected to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Netanyahu's political rival Benny Gantz at the White House on January 28 to unveil the president's "Deal of the Century" peace deal for the Middle East.... More


As the impeachment trial gets underway, President Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, where he delivered a speech earlier today to the gathered elites. The climate crisis was the top priority for this year’s forum. ... More


We should be skeptical when Trump, or any leader, invokes secret “intelligence” to justify their violent actions.... More


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