More than a quarter of the ex-Colombian soldiers currently suspected in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse received U.S. military training, The Intercept confirmed Friday, with some of the alleged attackers participating in programs as recently as 2015 that… Read More ›
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Hindu Vigilantes Work With Police to Enforce “Love Jihad” Law in North India
The moment Sanjay Shukla got the call that a Hindu woman had run away from home with her Muslim boyfriend, he set in motion a search operation to find her and bring her back to her family in Bareilly, a… Read More ›
U.S. Website Seizures Targeting Iran Cast Wide Net Over Dissident and Religious Broadcasters
There is no love lost between Ayatollah Sadiq Shirazi and the Iranian government. In 2018, authorities arrested the dissident cleric’s son for calling Iran’s supreme leader a tyrannical pharaoh. Soon after, Shirazi’s followers stormed the Iranian embassy in London. So… Read More ›
I Visited a Chinese Lab at the Center of a Biosafety Scandal. What I Learned Helps Explain the Polarized Debate Over Covid-19’s Origins.
A doctor at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention gestures to a colleague in their laboratory in Beijing on April 16, 2013. Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images I was living in Shanghai when a new avian flu virus… Read More ›
India's Vaccine Makers Are Pandemic Profiteers, Not Humanitarians
In April, a deadly Covid-19 surge overtook India as the country’s overflowing hospitals and crematoria made global headlines. While new daily cases are now reportedly in decline, the overall death toll continues to rise — estimated to exceed official figures… Read More ›
U.S. Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Hamper the Global Fight Against Covid-19
In Cuba, the smallest country in the world to produce its own Covid-19 vaccines, five immunizations are currently in clinical trials. Soberana 2 and Abdala have reached Phase 3, making the island nation the only country in Latin America to… Read More ›
The G7 Upheld Vaccine Apartheid. Officials From the “Global South” Are Pushing Back.
From left to right, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President of the European Council Charles Michel, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, President… Read More ›
Tools for Repression in Myanmar Expose Gap Between EU Tech Investment and Regulation
Inside the interrogation room of a Myanmar detention center, what Myat remembers most clearly is looking up from the floor and everything being green. The officials questioning him sat on green plastic chairs behind a green table on a thin… Read More ›
In the Least Wired Country on Earth, U.S. Military Asks Airstrike Victims to File Complaints Online
The leaflet depicts an airstrike in progress, with militants scattering as a missile streaks toward the ground. In the foreground, a fighter in a military uniform, holding an assault rifle, tries to flee. He looks terrified. The caption, printed in… Read More ›
Israeli Police Round Up Palestinian Protesters Out of Global Spotlight
Palestinian activists urged the world not to look away from their struggle for freedom and equality following the ceasefire in Gaza, as Israeli police began rounding up Palestinian citizens of Israel who took part in demonstrations described as riots by… Read More ›