6+ hour, 41+ min ago   (803+ words) For some time, I have been watching Britain from across the pond and asking a question I never expected to ask about one of America’s closest allies: what is happening to free speech? Recent news gave me another reason to…...

6+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1223+ words) Chicago Police Officer John Bartholomew walked into a hospital doing his job in April and never walked out. The man accused of killing him, Alphanso Talley, was a seven-time felon riding an ankle monitor a Cook County judge had strapped…...

10+ hour, 5+ min ago   (167+ words) Guyana’s president says his country has seen an increase in oil revenue as the Iran conflict reshapes global markets. President Mohamed Irfaan Ali insists he does not want Guyana to depend solely on its oil wealth. In recent months, oil…...

17+ hour, 7+ min ago   (975+ words) At the Royal Mail depot in central Manchester around 30 workers took a leaflet, with a postie telling WSWS reporters, “I’m against war and so are lots of comrades in there [Royal Mail]. I can’t see how we can stop it....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (222+ words) “Shortly after Canada and America became embroiled in the worst bilateral trade war in their modern history, the secure phones of Europe’s top leaders lit up with a trans-Atlantic call. Mark Carney was pushing to take Canada’s relationship with the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1022+ words) Jeffrey Johnson drives a truck for a living. He holds valid concealed carry permits from Florida and Georgia, and he carries a handgun on the road because long-haul trucking is not a low-risk occupation. But every time his rig crosses…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1589+ words) The new sanctions may be groundbreaking, but they’re also full of loopholes — including for certain weapons exports. The United Kingdom, joined by Canada and France, announced this week that they are taking action against Israeli settlements in the West Bank....

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (26+ words) The Kurdish Peshmerga has partnered with the US and ISIS to divide Iraq, but is not included in the plan to disarm non-state Shia armed factions...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (128+ words) “Al-Qaeda’s plans for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took root in dusty, mud-walled compounds in Afghanistan that served for years as terrorist training camps,” the Washington Post reports. “A quarter-century later — despite decades of U.S. military and counterterrorism operations aimed at eradicating…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (200+ words) President Donald Trump assured everyone things will turn out “fine and dandy” when it comes to the Iran war following an attack on a critical Middle Eastern pipeline. Trump spoke to reporters alongside Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Saturday…...