Gulf States: Migrant Workers at Serious Risk from Dangerous Heat

(Beirut) – Migrant workers in Gulf Cooperation Council countries lack sufficient health and safety protection from the region’s extreme summertime heat and humidity, Human Rights Watch said today.

The True Toll of the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Border Conflict

Ahmadjon, a three-year-old boy from Tajikistan, died in a hospital on 16 September 2022 from two injuries to the abdomen sustained earlier that day.

Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod

We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us.

Clyburn: I Don't Like Current Food Stamp Work Requirements

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” House Assistant Minority Leader Rep.

Australia’s Crackdown on Climate Activists

Peaceful protesters can face up to two years in prison.Legislation rammed through parliament by lawmakers that increases fines for protest activity to tens of thousands of dollars.

Brazil: Reject Harmful Bill on Indigenous Rights

(São Paulo) – Brazil’s Congress should reject a draft bill that would impose an arbitrary cutoff date curtailing the right of Indigenous peoples to their traditional land.

The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies

Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally slapstick theatrical revue, featuring an all-star line-up of uproarious propagandists, side-splitting corporate media clowns, babbling British Labour MPs, the all-singing, all-dancing Berlin Police Department, and other

Russia Considers Six Day Working Week to Prop up War

More hardship looms for Russian citizens as a “patriotic” business confederation and elements of state media lobby to push the country to a six-day week to support the invasion of Ukraine.

Synthetic biology aims to replace natural life forms with something that is man-made

Several years ago, leaked FEMA documents described that people would be put into FEMA camps for, essentially, re-education.  That concept “is old,” Celeste Solum told Maria Zeee.  The plan has been replaced by a “posthuman” ideology. “In 2019 we heard in all the mainstream media ‘it’s posthuman, it’s

REVIEW: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has his wife, Hannah, and two daughters living with him in the “zone,” where the smell of rotting flesh from the mass graves functions as a persistent clue that things have gone

DR Congo: Peaceful Protests Violently Repressed

(Kinshasa) – Police violently dispersed peaceful protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 20, 2023, arresting dozens of people and seriously injuring at least 30, Human Rights Watch said today. The police said they have opened an investigation into the violence against the protesters and

Cluster Munitions: Renew Global Momentum for Ban

(Washington DC, May 29, 2023) – Greater global efforts are needed to ensure that the international treaty banning cluster munitions achieves its goal of ending the suffering and harm caused by these indiscriminate weapons, Human Rights Watch said today. May 30, 2023 marks 15 years since the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Cluster Munition Use in Russia-Ukraine War

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russian armed forces have used cluster munitions in attacks that have caused hundreds of civilian casualties and damaged civilian objects, including homes, hospitals, and schools. The Ukrainian military has not denied credible evidence of its own use of cluster

Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future

Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of