Andrew Sullivan has an excellent opinion piece in the NY Times today about how the gay rights movement became too radical for its own good. If you read this story last week offering a history of the trans movement then you already know what Sullivan is going to say. But he says it as someone...
The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with...
John Ayres BBC News, Devon BBC A prototype of the lateral flow test for black fungus disease A new test which creators say could one day save the lives of people suffering from a deadly fungal infection is being developed at the University of Exeter. Mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus disease, spiked during the...
Seven people have been charged following a Palestine Action protest in central London on Monday where 13 were arrested. The charges include a racially aggravated public order offence, assaulting an emergency worker and breaching the Public Order Act, the Metropolitan Police said. A 31-year-old woman has also been cautioned for assaulting an emergency worker. Hundreds...
A Palestine Action protest is under way in central London ahead of an expected government announcement on proscribing the group as a terrorist organisation. Hundreds of people met at Trafalgar Square after police banned them from protesting outside of Parliament. Activists from the group broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire last week and spray-painted...
PA Media People are being offered the chance to surrender ninja swords at local police stations People who own ninja swords are being told to hand them in before the end of July. Devon and Cornwall Police said it was part of the national ninja sword surrender and compensation scheme, which will run from 1...
A conventional wisdom has developed that only the United States has the capacity to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow, and that the US most certainly does have that capability. But what if that second assumption is false? Could it be that Iran’s Fordow enrichment site is actually not vulnerable to destruction from the...
Paul Moseley BBC political reporter, Norfolk Qays Najim/BBC Kay Mason Billig said her personal post had been taken out of context A council leader apologised “unreservedly” for posting a picture of a steak dinner on Facebook with the words: “Wonder what all the poor people are doing?” Norfolk County Council’s Conservative leader Kay Mason Billig...
Two people have been charged over the shooting of a 15-year-old boy at a home in Cardiff. The incident, which left the boy with non-life-threatening injuries happened in Clos y Ffynnon, Pontprennau, at about 20:00 BST on 7 June. Ashley Corbin, 20, and a 17-year-old boy, both from Bristol, are due to appear at Cardiff...
Bali police have arrested two people over a shooting which killed one Australian and seriously injured another. Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was shot dead just after midnight on Saturday after two men broke into his villa in Munggu, in the south of the Indonesian tourist island. One of the suspects was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital,...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Organizers say about 5 million people participated in “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump and his administration’s abuses of power in hundreds of towns and cities across the United States on Saturday, June...
Videos posted on social media show queues for fuel and gridlocked traffic as people try to leave the Iranian capital Tehran. Israel began launching strikes on Iran four days ago, saying it was targeting the country’s nuclear programme. Iran’s health ministry reports that at least 224 people have been killed. BBC journalists are unable to...
Cameras have captured the moment an 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Lima, Peru on Sunday morning, causing panic among worshipers at the city’s cathedral. The epicentre was recorded 23km off the coast of Callao, according to the The United States Geological Survey. It was felt in the capital and surrounding regions, killing at least one and...
Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials have said. According to local media reports, the aircraft was flying from the state capital, Dehradun, to a popular pilgrimage site in the Himalayan mountains. It is understood that rescue teams were immediately dispatched and a coordinated operation to...
Nathan was six when a fire ripped through Grenfell Tower, claiming 72 lives, including that of his best friend. He described it as “a normal night and I was just asleep, and then I got woken up to my mum screaming”. Sorena was seven at the time. Now a teenager, he said he believes there...