US Approves Missile Defense Upgrades for Saudi Arabia Despite Khashoggi Outrage
By Jason Ditz (ANTIWAR.COM) — Anger at the Saudi government’s murder of Jamal Khashoggi had many in the US Congress saying that they intend to limit arms…
Human Rights
Little Sparta & Their Evil Ways
By Joziah Thayer Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis once called the United Arab Emirates “Little Sparta” when he was the US CENTCOM Commander. Mattis…
Mother Of Detained Journalist Julian Assange And WikiLeaks Call On Journalists And Supporters To Protest In Times Square On New Year’s Eve
By Aaron Kesel Recently, WikiLeaks highlighted that its founder and former editor Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained 8+ years without charge by the UK Govt…
What Self-Ownership Means and Why It Matters
By Jeffrey A. Tucker I’ve been thinking about this idea of self-ownership, a concept almost universally assumed to be a foundation for human rights and…
Journalists Go On Strike In Sudan As 37 Are Killed In Anti-Bashir Protest
By Joziah Thayer Reporters in Sudan have faced threats, arrest, and torture from President Omar al-Bashir’s security forces as they try to cover the anti-Bashir…
The Politics of Population Control
By Al-Jazeera In a busy market, Chinese parents Pang Zhengdong and Hu Aizhen are handing out flyers in search of their missing three-year-old daughter, Pang…
Lawmakers Use Farm Bill Ensuring Americans Are Fed To Block Yemen War Vote
By Joziah Thayer Peace Action’s Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs called it a grotesque irony when the House of Representatives led by Republicans…
Are The “Psychoses” Of The United Nations and French President Macron Revealed?
Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich Has the United Nations played its ‘trump’ hand in the finalization of their geopolitical card game for “global citizenship”? Here’s…
Crackdown in Beijing: “Using Twitter is more dangerous than street demonstrations”
By Oiwan Lam Authorities in Beijing have launched a nationwide crackdown on mainland Chinese Twitter users. The December 5 release of 42 testimonies collected by…
DRAGONFLY: Google Employees Publicly Rebel Against Building a Dystopian New Search Engine
By Meadow Clark More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt its controversial project called Dragonfly….
At Least 206 Civilians Killed in November by US Airstrikes in Syria
By Jason Ditz (ANTIWAR.COM) — The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has issued a new report over the weekend summarizing the massive civilian death toll of US-led…
Meet the Women’s Rights Activists Behind Bars in Saudi Arabia
By Afef Abrougui The October 2018 murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi — who US and Turkish officials say was killed at the order of…
“Squeezing the Palestinians” — Trump to Shut Down USAID In Palestine
By Janet Phelan The announcement by the Trump administration that it is cutting off USAID to the Palestinian territories has some people concerned. And not…
Playing The Human Rights Game
By Janet Phelan A proliferation of human rights agencies now litter the political landscape. While these organizations and agencies profess to honor and protect human…