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12/10/2025

A coalition of civil and human rights organizations is calling for the closure of a massive immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, alleging guards have beaten detainees and threatened violence, criminal charges and imprisonment in attempts to coerce even non-Mexican migrants... Read moreAbuse...

12/09/2025

Birthright citizenship in the United States was never a bureaucratic detail or an immigration loophole. It was a direct assault on white supremacy's original theory of the nation—that Black presence was permissible only as labor, never as belonging. The framers... Read moreWHEN CITIZENSHIP BECOMES...

12/09/2025

Honduras is on tenterhooks as the results of its presidential election have not yet been finalized, and Trump has threatened reprisals if his favored candidate fails to win. Since the voting, ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández—convicted in the US last year... Read morePost-electoral tension in H...

12/08/2025

President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy puts the Western Hemisphere at the center of US foreign policy and revives the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, appending it with a "Trump Corollary." The document presents the Americas as the main line of... Read moreUS instates ‘Trump Corollary’ ...

12/08/2025

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UN protests as Trump threatens Venezuela

12/07/2025

Trump's perverse ambition to win the Nobel Peace Prize was given a boost by his "winning" of the first "FIFA Peace Prize"—just as he is carrying out illegal deadly air-strikes in the Caribbean, and threatening Venezuela with war. "Secretary of... Read morePodcast: Trump for War-is-Peace Prize III

12/06/2025

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned that the Burma military junta's planned elections this month are a military-controlled process conducted in an environment "rife with threats and violence." OHCHR stated: "Far from leading a... Read moreUN: Burma election plans e...

12/05/2025

Houthi authorities in Yemen have detained dozens of political opponents since July, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported. The rights group said that at least 70 people associated with the opposition party Yemeni Congregation for Reform, or Islah, were detained in Dhamar... Read moreYemen: Houthi author...

12/04/2025

A coalition of local and international human rights groups has asked the International Criminal Court to open a case against Tanzanian President Samia Hassan and senior members of her government over killings by the security forces during post-election unrest in... Read moreICC asked to investigate....

12/03/2025

The United Nations urged all countries to respect international norms safeguarding civil aviation, following US President Donald Trump's announcement of his intention to "completely shut down" Venezuelan airspace. The statement added that the Secretary-General is also "gravely concerned" about the s...

12/02/2025

UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the military coup in Guinea-Bissau that took place just days after national elections, saying that it gravely violates constitutional order and democratic principles. The African Union similarly condemned the coup, while the West African regional bloc...

12/01/2025

In a move that will shock absolutely nobody following the war in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) declared a three-month unilateral humanitarian truce—and then promptly broke it with an attack on an army position in the West Kordofan town... Read moreSudan: hollow truces, blood theft