If a conservative is a liberal who gets mugged, then a prison reformer is a conservative who goes to prison, as John Kiriakou explains. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Prison and sentencing reform have long been an important…Read more →
(ANTIMEDIA) — Fourteen federal agencies, along with the DEA, are working to construct an anti-cannabis propaganda campaign in the face of growing legalization across the United States, according to an exclusive report from Buzzfeed News. The outlet says it viewed memos and documents from the Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee that show the White House has instructed these 14 agencies to […]
The Trump administration is dismantling Temporary Protected Status, a program that protects people from deportations to countries destabilized by war, civil conflict, or natural catastrophe. One group is fighting back. By Dennis J Bernstein The Trump Administration, with Attorney General…Read more →
US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: The White House. Source: Wikicommons)
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Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to want to militarize life beyond Earth. But that is a bankrupt approach, believes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Special to Consortium News When Donald Trump declared it was time to Make…Read more →
Immigrant children are suffering abusive treatment and cruel and inhumane conditions in government detention centers. (CD) U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of Los Angeles ruled on Monday that a Texas detention center for unaccompanied immigrant children and those forcibly separated from their families by the Trump administration must stop administering psychotropic drugs without parental consent. “A federal court has now […]
Trump’s policies are shaping America’s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don’t exhibit a consistent strategy, observes Paul Pillar. By Paul Pillar The urge within the commentariat to describe every president’s foreign policy in terms…Read more →
Decades of research has revealed time and again that breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed babies. Years of misleading marketing by formula companies has caused undue harm the world over by providing free samples in-hospital after birth, driving the unintended use of dirty water to mix formula where clean water is scarce and miseducating mothers that the formula itself is an adequate replacement for breastmilk.
Immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday applauded a federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration cannot detain asylum seekers who are awaiting immigration hearings—a practice that breaks the government’s own policies as well as international law.
While key members of his administration oppose him, Donald Trump seems intent on forging ahead with plans to create a sixth military branch–in outer space, as Renee Parsons reports. By Renee Parsons At a recent meeting of the newly-revived National Space…Read more →
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