Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Iranians are waking up from what feels like a nightmare. For 12 days, Israel bombarded their country with missiles, air strikes, and drone attacks. It hit homes, hospitals, and offices, killing around 1,000 people....
“He called me this morning – about an hour ago – and I just haven’t stopped shaking since. It’s an incredible honour. I’m really excited.” White admitted that it “was tough” to watch the original Lions squad be announced as he missed out on selection. “But it was an experience that I can put in...
For the last seven days, the Protection Racket Media has deployed what we used to call “modified limited hangouts” to deal with the success of Donald Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. First, they used a leaked and manipulated low-confidence assessment to suggest that the strike on Fordow hadn’t done much damage. Then, media outlets...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. In 2022, Alabama became one of the first states in the nation to ban slavery without exception. A constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly by voters, removed language that...
Emma Haslett Business reporter Charlotte Edwards BBC business reporter Tom Espiner BBC business reporter Sharon Carroll Poundland used to be a big attraction when everything was £1, according to Sharon Carroll Sharon Carroll once shopped so much at her local Poundland that her friends described her as “Mrs Poundland”. “I’d just buy so many things,”...
An upcoming clemency hearing will determine the near-term fate of Christopher “Naeem” Trotter, a political prisoner who has been held captive for over 40 years as punishment for a spontaneous act of community self-defense inside prison walls. On February 1, 1985, Trotter and another incarcerated man — John “Balagoon” Cole — led a rebellion within...
Via Opta’s expected goals (xG) model, Rice’s first free-kick had an xG of 0.037 (3.7%) and his second an xG of 0.063 (6.3%). The probability of scoring both comes in at a combined total of 0.23%. Or put in layman’s terms, a one-in-435 chance. But which one was better? BBC pundit Green, who was at...