Andrea Germanos

Saudi Arabia Bombs Yemeni Water Well, Killing 30 Civilians

Strikes in northern Yemen on Saturday reportedly killed two children and first responders as US-backed coalition continues ‘disturbing’ strikes

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An explosion and smoke rise after an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition of mainly Gulf nations fighting the Houthis, who seized the capital, Sanaa, last September. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

A United Nations official has condemned airstrikes, including a "double tap" attack, on a water well in Yemen that killed dozens of people including children. The statement comes as the Obama administration's proposed $1.15 billion arms to Saudi Arabia, who's leading the U.S.-backed coalition's bombing campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen,

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In ‘Tacit Admission’ Of Cruelty, DHS Says It Too May End For-Profit Prisons

“Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporation.”

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Immigration Overload-Nogales

On the heels of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ's) "important and groundbreaking decision" to phase out the use of private prisons, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just signaled that it may follow in those footsteps—a move that would heed human rights advocates' call for the agency to end "prison profiteers in our inhumane

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10 Children Killed,28 Wounded In US-Backed Coalition Strike In Yemen

Coalition spokesman Gen. Ahmad Assiri said of the airstrikes: “Don’t focus on the technical details. This is a war. Collateral damage could happen, mistakes could happen.”

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Ten children were killed and 28 injured, according to MSF

Ten children were killed and 28 other children were wounded on Saturday when an airstrike struck a school in northern Yemen, medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders said. All the casualties were 8-15 years old, the group, which uses its French acronym, MSF, posted on

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Bernie Sanders Calls On Top Dems To Drop Lame Duck TPP Push

TPP “will cost American jobs, harm the environment, increase the cost of prescription drugs, and threaten our ability to protect public health”

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaks during a town hall meeting

Hillary Clinton may not have heeded progressives' call to clearly say she'll urge the White House and her fellow party members to oppose a "lame-duck" vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has done just that, calling on Democratic Congressional leadership to publicly oppose a post-Election Day vote on the

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Federal Courts Favor Telecom Giants, Strike Down Municipal Broadband

‘Industry-backed state laws to block municipal broadband only exist because pliant legislators are listening to their Big Cable and Big Telecom paymasters’

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A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) effort to expand municipal broadband. Reuters described the decision as "a win for private-sector providers of broadband internet and a setback for FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler." For his part, Wheeler, who had promoted the policy,said the decision

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Green Party’s Jill Stein: Sanders Can Lead My Party’s Ticket

“If he saw that you can’t have a revolutionary campaign in a counter-revolutionary party, he’d be welcomed to the Green party.”

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Bernie Sanders delivers his "Where We Go From Here" speech, June 24, 2016, in Albany, N.Y.

Presumptive Green Party candidate for U.S. President Jill Stein has reiterated her offer for Bernie Sanders to head that party's ticket instead, where—unlike in the Democratic party—she says he'd be able to continue to "build a political movement." Stein's new comments to the Guardian US come as the Vermont senator has signaled he may soon offer

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Developing: Suicide Attempt Unconfirmed, But Chelsea Manning Reportedly Taken To Hospital

The WikiLeaks’ whistleblower, a former Army intelligence officer, is currently serving a 35-year sentence in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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CHELSEAMANNING

U.S. military whistleblower Chelsea Manning was taken to the hospital on Wednesday. Though one reporter tweeted that it was a suspected suicide attempt, the reason for the medical visit is still unconfirmed. Manning, who released a trove of government and military documents to WikiLeaks, is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the military

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