Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. President Joe Biden holds to an August 31st deadline to evacuate from Afghanistan, but orders contingency plans. United Nations Human Rights Council says they’ve received reports of Taliban human rights violations. House passes blueprint for $3.5 trillion … Continued


While the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border drew intense condemnation, the practice has been going on in this country for centuries. Historian Laura Briggs argues that it has been part of strategy of counterinsurgency, as during the anti-communist wars in Latin America, in which rebellious populations are … Continued