How the U.S. has struggled to stop the growth of a shadowy Russian private army Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan ProPublica May 27, 2022
David C. MacMichael, CIA whistleblower under Reagan, dies at 93 Harrison Smith Washington Post June 2, 2022
…a disillusioned CIA analyst who accused the Reagan administration of misrepresenting intelligence as part of an effort to overthrow the left-wing government of Nicaragua…
Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says Sarah Pulliam Bailey Washington Post May 22, 2022
Among the findings was a previously unknown case of a pastor who was credibly accused of assaulting a woman a month after leaving the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention
Resource limits to American capitalism & the Predator State today James K. Galbraith Institute for New Economic Thinking February 10, 2022
In the grip of a permanent war economy Seymour Melman CounterPunch March 15, 2003
Continue readingHuman rights coalition presses UN over imprisonment of Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza Brad Dress The Hill May 2, 2022
Vladimir Kara-Murza from jail: Russia will be free. I’ve never been so sure Vladimir Kara-Murza Washington Post April 15, 2022 (Opinion)
Pipeline company targets individual tribal members in court battle for Line 5 Mary Annette Pember Indian Country Today/Truthout May 9, 2022
Continue readingReport: Hunger reached record high in 2021, may worsen in 2022 Rumbi Chakamba Devex May 5, 2022
The 2022 “Global Report on Food Crises,” compiled by the Global Network Against Food Crises — an international alliance that includes the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Food Program — found that around 193 million people were acutely food-insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries and territories in 2021. That’s an increase of nearly 40 million people from 2020. Of most concern are the 570,000 people facing starvation and death levels of hunger in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Southern Madagascar, and Yemen.