President Joe Biden claims that the United States is leading “democracies” in a fight against “autocracies” to establish a peaceful international order, but his administration approved weapons sales to nearly three-fifths of the world’s authoritarian countries in 2022. That’s according to a new analysis cond...
WASHINGTON (AA): The US military announced Friday that it would be stepping up patrols in and near the Strait of Hormuz alongside regional partners amid increasing tensions with Iran. The strategic waterway, which separates Iran on the north from Oman and the UAE on the south, has been the site of repeated tense exchanges between […]
JOHANNESBURG (AA): South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) said late Friday that US Ambassador Reuben Brigety had apologized to the government and people of South Africa for his comments made a day earlier. Brigety told reporters Thursday that the US was convinced South Africa had supplied arms to Russia de...
WASHINGTON (AA): Türkiye has “proud democratic institutions,” the White House said Friday as millions of Turks prepare to cast ballots in nationwide presidential and parliamentary polls. “We’re going to leave it to the Turkish people to decide their future. We obviously don’t get involved in speaking to individual...
Johannesburg, South Africa (AFP): The US envoy to South Africa on Thursday accused the country of having covertly provided arms to Russia despite its professed neutrality in the Ukraine war, local media said. Ambassador Reuben Brigety told a media briefing the US was “confident” weapons and ammunition had been loaded onto a Russian...
An event featuring U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib commemorating the Nakba—the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland during Israel’s War of Independence 75 years ago—went ahead as scheduled Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C, despite an attempt by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to derail it. Tlaib...
Demanding an end to the “international embarrassment” of childhood hunger the the world’s wealthiest country, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday was among the lawmakers who introduced legislation to ensure all children in the United States have sufficient food at school without means-testing and stigmatizing those who rely ...
A report published this week featuring previously unreleased drawings by Abu Zubaydah—a 52-year-old Saudi who has been imprisoned by the United States for more than 20 years at CIA “black sites” and Guantánamo Bay—offers new insight into torture suffered by a man caught up in a case of mistaken identity. The report—entitled America...
A federal judge’s ruling in Virginia on Thursday once again made clear the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the right-wing majority ruled that laws and regulations pertaining to firearms must fall within the United States’ so-called ...
After meeting with congressional leaders earlier this week as the U.S. barrels toward a catastrophic debt default, President Joe Biden said that “we should be cutting spending,” a remark that fueled concerns among progressives that the White House is preparing to cede to at least some Republican demands in exchange for a deal to li...
