Top Stories

New Documentary Examines One State’s Struggle To Reform Solitary Confinement

An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Ariz.
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
“You lose all feeling. You become immune to everything,” says Sam Caison, a prisoner who has been in and out of solitary confinement. “You’re not the same after spending so much time by yourself in those conditions. I don’t care who you are, you don’t come out the same person.”

WaPo Gives Raytheon Lobbyist Free Range To Publish Pro-War Editorials

Raytheon lobbyist and Washington Post contributor Ed Rogers appears on CBNC (screenshot).
MINNEAPOLIS – The Washington Post, the capital’s paper of record, is at again – pushing war propaganda and failing to disclose glaring conflict of interests within the paper, particularly regarding one of its contributors whose ties to the nation’s largest weapons manufacturers have been conveniently omitted from his WaPo editorials.

Trump Claims To Have Syria-Sarin Evidence, But Won’t Share It With The Public

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night, allegedly in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack. (AP/Alex Brandon)
After making the provocative and dangerous charge that Russia is covering up Syria’s use of chemical weapons, the Trump administration withheld key evidence to support its core charge that a Syrian warplane dropped sarin on a northern Syrian town on April 4.

Trump Airstrikes Giving Syria Terror Groups A New Advantage

Fighters from Nusra Front,. Al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib province.
DAMASCUS — Early Friday morning – in a move that would have made his former electoral opponent Hillary Clinton proud – President Donald Trump launched airstrikes targeting a Syrian government military base that targets Daesh. According to Trump, the attack was a response to allegations that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack that took place in Syria’s Idlib Province on Tuesday.

Trump Taking U.S. to War In Syria To Avert Economic Disaster

In this Sept. 25, 2016 photo, Donald Trump shakes hand with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York.(Kobi Gideon-GPO/AP)
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Before the alleged gas attack in Syria’s Idlib Province could be independently confirmed, the Trump administration took the Syrian opposition at their word and blamed the Syrian government for the attack.