Amnesty International on Sept. 29 condemned the Malian armed forces and its partners from the Russian private military company Wagner Group for perpetration of war crimes, including the murder and tor...

Worsening Yemen conflict fuels mass displacement

Protests happily continue to mount against the rapid encroachment of Artificial Intelligence over all spheres of society—and have met with s

Protests happily continue to mount against the ra…

Protests happily continue to mount against the rapid encroachment of Artificial Intelligence over all spheres of society—and have met with some victories. Other responses, however, appear to have succ

Protests happily continue to mount against the rapid encroachment of Artificial Intelligence over all spheres of society—and have met with some victories. Other responses, however, appear to have succ...

As New York commemorated the 25th anniversary of the attacks, El Museo del Barrio rented space to a group skeptical of the explanation of what caused the twin towers to come down.

As Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping at the White House, a small group of exiled Tibetans has departed from New York City for a cross-country march on Washington, to join a demonstration planned ...

As Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping at the …

Potential US ‘war crimes’ seen in Iran

As Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping at the White House, Students for a Free Tibet prepares a protest in Washington against the Chinese

As Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping at the White House, Students for a Free Tibet prepares a protest in Washington against the Chinese

As Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping at the White House, Students for a Free Tibet prepares a protest in Washington against the Chinese dictator.

The US Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) on Sept. 11 ordered the deportation of an Afghan woman, after she reached an agreement with the Department of Justice (DoJ), waiving her right to appeal.

Amid the politicized ugliness and street skirmish…

Israeli leaders announce plan to cleanse Gaza

Amid the politicized ugliness and street skirmishes around the 25th anniversary of 9-11 in New York City, a conspiracy-theory confab convene

Amid the politicized ugliness and street skirmishes around the 25th anniversary of 9-11 in New York City, a conspiracy-theory confab convenes, glorifying MAGA martyr Charlie Kirk and headlining such h...

It’s called “Turning The Tide”, a 9/11 “Truther” conference in NYC on September 10-13, 2026 - the 25th anniversary of 9/11… at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at E.

Libya: roadmap to resolve division of country

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), pillar of India's ruling fascistic ideology of Hindutva, held a rally in New York City—which was happ

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), pillar of India's ruling fascistic ideology of Hindutva, held a rally in New York City—which was happily met with a large protest outside Madison Square Garden. ...

Syria: SDF absorbed into national army

With the CounterVortex website debilitated by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, chief blogger and ranter Bill Weinberg takes heart in the vib

Summer of Ludd With the CounterVortex website debilitated by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, chief blogger and ranter Bill Weinberg takes heart in the vibrant scene unfolding this summer in the Lower

With the CounterVortex website debilitated by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, chief blogger and ranter Bill Weinberg takes heart in the vibrant scene unfolding this summer in the Lower East Side's To...

A growing number of Americans report they are unable to quit or cut down.

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance on Aug. 21 found activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, as well as the pair's now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance, guilty of a "subversion" offense under the Be...

Israeli strike on Syria signals tension with Türkiye

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Following the attack on Manhattan's historic Central Synagogue, Jewish establishment voices are calling for stepped up surveillance and poli

Following the attack on Manhattan's historic Cent…

Following the attack on Manhattan's historic Central Synagogue, Jewish establishment voices are calling for stepped up surveillance and policing. But the threat, alas, is real.

A Russian court sentenced politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years and one month in a penal colony on charges of "discrediting" the Russian military and spreading "false information." Amnesty Internationa...

Syria: Bashar Assad sentenced to death in absentia

The righties are apoplectic that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey famously portrays a Black Helen—displaying their ignorance of the actual in

The righties are apoplectic that Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey famously portrays a Black Helen—displaying their ignorance of the actual intercourse between Africa and the ancient Greek world. But ap...

A Damascus criminal court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes against humanity. This was the ...

Iran: intensified persecution of Bahá’í

Eighty-one years after Nagasaki, there is growing awareness of the heightening threat of nuclear war. There must be similar awareness of the existential threat to humanity posed by AI, and the hegemon...

Amnesty International urged Chinese authorities to immediately release a human rights activist who was detained for showing a photograph of the Dalai Lama at a monastery in Tibet, emphasizing that his...

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US-Iran war spirals across Middle East

The popular case against the data centers now proliferating vertiginously across the United States emphasizes the ecological imperative. As

The popular case against the data centers now proliferating vertiginously across the United States emphasizes the ecological imperative. As water resources shrink, forcing emergency restrictions on us...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Israeli agent?

Nationwide protests against data centers and even demands to stop the AI race constitute a significant glimmer of hope as Artificial Intelli

Nationwide protests against data centers and even demands to stop the AI race constitute a significant glimmer of hope as Artificial Intelligence colonizes every sphere of human existence with terrify...

US to seek dismantling of International Criminal Court

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's executive order imposing a one-year moratorium or "pause" on new "hyperscale" data centers seems to be a ploy to undercut a more stringent measure passed by the state legi...