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The International Criminal Court is beginning a three-day hearing today about torture in Afghanistan—including by U.S. forces. The hearing will probe allegations that members of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies tortured, raped, and...

Democracy Now! sat down with Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa, one of this year’s Right Livelihood Award honorees, along with the organization he co-founded, Hutukara Yanomami Association. Kopenawa is a shaman of the Yanomami people, one of the...

December 3 is International Day of Persons With Disabilities. “Unfortunately, disability-based discrimination is still a global phenomenon,” says Yetnebersh Nigussie, a lawyer and disability rights activist from Ethiopia who in 2017 received the...

Three women have accused U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland of forcibly kissing them or exposing himself to them — and then retaliating against them professionally after they rejected his unwanted and nonconsensual sexual...

“How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.” That’s the title of a new book examining a part of the U.S. that is often overlooked: the nation’s overseas territories from Puerto Rico to Guam, former territories like the...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the historic protests in Seattle that shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization, but it also marks the time when the first Independent Media Center came to life. Amid the clouds of tear gas, hundreds...

In Texas, at least three people were hospitalized after a chemical plant exploded in Port Neches, outside Houston. The cause of the explosion at the Texas Petroleum Chemical plant has not yet been determined. Meanwhile, an uncontrolled wildfire...

In Minnesota, at least 30 water protectors blockaded the entrance of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline Monday morning. The proposed controversial pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to a terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. Its path...

The billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has formally entered the 2020 race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bloomberg has already spent $37 million on television ads for the next two weeks alone. Vermont independent...

Bolivia’s self-appointed leader Jeanine Añez has signed legislation paving the way for a new round of presidential elections that would bar President Evo Morales from running, after Morales was ousted in what he describes as a military coup. Añez’s...

The Israeli government is deporting the head of Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine office, Omar Shakir, today. Israel has accused him of supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a nonviolent global campaign aiming to...

In Chile, photojournalist Albertina Martínez Burgos was found stabbed and beaten to death Thursday at her home in the capital Santiago. The 38-year-old journalist was documenting repression against anti-government protesters at the time of her...

Leaders of the coal industry knew as early as the mid-1960s that burning fossil fuels causes climate change. That’s according to a recently discovered 1966 copy of the magazine Mining Congress Journal, in which the head of a now defunct mining...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan From Oct 1, 2018, through Sept. 30, 2019, they documented 331 murders of trans and gender-diverse people around the world.

Presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed on the Democratic debate stage Wednesday that he has broad support from black voters and the only black woman elected to the Senate, seemingly forgetting that 2020 candidate Kamala Harris is a California...