Alabama state lawmakers have passed a ban on abortion, including in cases of rape and incest. Under the new law, doctors facilitating a pregnancy termination will be sentenced to 99 years in prison. Alabama has four female state senators. Not one of them voted in
The American political landscape is complicated. The last I checked there was some other bloke in the White House calling the shots, and now all of a sudden everyone's taking orders from John Bolton.To be perfectly honest, I don't even remember the US having another
"Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?" asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program."It's easy to know the answer to that question," he continued. "We've sent robotic probes like this one to all
The Grayzone's Aaron Maté has done an interview with his father titled "America in denial: Gabor Maté on the psychology of Russiagate", and it is the single best and most insightful political video I've ever seen. In 27 minutes it essentially describes the fundamental problems of
On Friday Israel began a two-day attack on Gaza which as of this writing has left a total of 27 Palestinians dead, including a pregnant woman and a baby.Moon of Alabama documents how the mass media have been consistently depicting this attack as a "response"
Rachel Maddow doesn't think John Bolton is being hawkish enough.John. Fucking. Bolton.On a recent segment about Donald Trump's controversial phone call with Vladimir Putin, Maddow expressed concern for the way the White House's mustachioed Thanos wannabe has been unable to push back against Russian interests
"Putin" is the number one USA trend on Twitter as of this writing, which is always a reliable sign that something very stupid is happening in American media."Putin" is once again the hysterical shrieking buzzword of the day because Donald Trump openly boasted at a
Headlines were blaring the word "Russian" again the other day because the mass media narrative managers found yet another reason for westerners to feel terrified of the icy potato patch that we'd barely ever thought about prior to 2016. I'd like to talk about the
Following seven years of imprisonment at the Ecuadorian embassy fighting US extradition, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks behind bars for an entirely bogus bail charge.Sky News reporter Jordan Milne live-tweeted events as they unfolded, reporting that Assange's defense argued that
Consortium News has launched a new series titled "The Revelations of WikiLeaks", geared toward helping readers come to a full appreciation of just how much useful information the outlet has made available to the world with its publications. Which is good, because there's a whole