“The Trump administration is trying to undermine free speech in this country,” Warren said during an interview. United States Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) is calling for an investigation into why federal agents tackled and handcuffed her colleague, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California), after he attempted to question Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem at...
On June 18, Anasse Kazib, a French railway worker, trade unionist and socialist leader will stand trial for the charge of “apologia for terrorism.” His supposed crime? Tweets posted to the social media platform X in support of the Palestinian people in rejection of Israel’s campaign of genocide. France concedes that Kazib has no ties...
A UN expert said that Israel’s strikes on Iran, which have killed at least 78 people, were a “prohibited use of force.” United States lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have lauded Israel’s strikes on Iran and are stoking more violence, even as a UN expert has warned that the attack was likely a...
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending, and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich. New polling data indicates that a majority of Americans are opposed to Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, oftentimes referred to by President Donald Trump as the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” with only a quarter of voters viewing...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday, when Trump will...
In 2024, for the fifth year in a row, the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations increased spending on nuclear weapons, according to a report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The annual report, entitled, “Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024,” reveals that last year, the nine nuclear states increased spending by...
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla (California) was forcibly removed and tackled by law enforcement officers while at a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, sparking outrage. Video of the incident that circulated on social media showed Padilla attempting to ask Noem a question when multiple men began grabbing and shoving him....
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Dozens of lawyers, academics, human rights advocates, and journalists from Palestine, Israel, and global civil society issued a call to conscience on May 29 from a gathering in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dubbed the Sarajevo Declaration, the 2,000-word document was the culmination...
Over the past several months, many Trump officials have suggested that the administration could ignore court orders. In an appearance before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth refused to answer questions on whether the Trump administration would abide by future potential judicial rulings that could limit the deployment of...
Trump pick Billy Long’s confirmation “signals open season for wealthy tax cheats,” said Americans for Tax Fairness. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm scandal-plagued Billy Long to serve as head of the Internal Revenue Service, an agency that he sought to abolish during his tenure in Congress. Every Republican senator voted in favor...
This story was originally published by The New Lede. Federal regulators are proposing to repeal Obama- and Biden-era regulations that forced power plants to cut harmful pollutants, including mercury, lead and arsenic, as well as greenhouse gases, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Wednesday. The proposed rollbacks — which would get...
When did the act of public protest — a right protected by the First Amendment — become an act of “rebellion” eliciting a military response? What began as a fairly small protest against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at an apparel manufacturer in the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles on June 6,...
With chaos and violence persisting “by design” at aid sites set up by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed organization in Gaza, the death toll at the distribution points rose Wednesday, as did the overall number of deaths in the enclave since Israel began bombarding the civilian population 20 months ago. At least 120 Palestinians were killed...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Roughly 200 protesters occupied the lobby of Maersk’s Manhattan headquarters on June 11 to demand that the multibillion-dollar shipping conglomerate stop sending military cargo to Israel amid the genocide in Gaza. The intergenerational, multifaith coalition — organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish...
The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population. President Donald Trump’s latest deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles means that there are now more troops carrying out Trump’s anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria,...