After Trip to Gaza, Anthony Bourdain Accused World of Robbing Palestinians of Their Basic Humanity; As EPA Scandals Mount, Scott Pruitt Is Radically Reshaping Agency to Aid Polluters and Big Business; Israeli Military Pushes Misleading Video in Attempt to Smear Slain Palestinian Medic Razan al-Najjar; Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan: Destitution, Unemployment & Hunger Must Be … Continued


Trump Frees Alice Johnson; What About Thousands Still Serving Life for Nonviolent Drug Offenses? Students Push to Oust Nicaraguan President Ortega as Death Toll Rises Amid Bloody Police Crackdown; The Country Is Crying: Nicaraguan Mother Demands Justice After Police Kill Her Son at Protest; Mexican Court Orders Truth Commission to Oversee New Investigation of 43 … Continued


Going “Full Dictator”? Trump Claims He Has Right to End Mueller Investigation or Pardon Himself; Trump Cancels Philadelphia Eagles’ WH Visit Amid Feud with Players over Racial Justice Protests; “Hidden Horrors”: Reporter Debbie Nathan on Mass Trials & Kids Separated from Parents at the Border; In Narrow Ruling, Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Refused … Continued


Origins of the Opioid Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew of OxyContin Abuse in 1996 But Covered It Up; “Pain Killer” Author Barry Meier on How West Virginia Became Ground Zero of Opioid Epidemic; Cities & States Sue Big Pharma, Targeting the Firms Who Profited from Peddling Addictive Opioids. Purdue Pharma, the company that planted the seeds … Continued


Deadlier than Katrina & 9/11: Hurricane Maria Killed 4,645 in Puerto Rico, 70 Times Official Toll; Glenn Greenwald: Why Did ABC Ignore Roseanne Barr’s Hateful Tweets Against Arabs & Palestinians? 39 Arrested Protesting Industrial Farm Supplying So-Called “Cage-Free” Eggs to Amazon & Whole Foods; Bred to Suffer: Glenn Greenwald on the “Morally Unconscionable” U.S. Industry … Continued


Meet Two of the Activists Behind Ireland’s Historic Vote to Repeal a Ban on Nearly All Abortions; After Ireland’s Historic Abortion Vote, Calls Grow for Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland; “Don’t Treat Us Like Animals:” Outrage Builds After Border Agent Kills Indigenous Guatemalan Woman; 1968: A Look Back at the My Lai Massacre, MLK’s Assassination, … Continued