More than 65,000 people fled the conflict in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah just in the past week alone.
BAGHDAD (AP) — A United Nations official says more than 140,000 Iraqis have fled parts of Anbar province over clashes between security forces and al-Qaida militants. The spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Peter Kessler, described it as "the largest" displacement witnessed in the country since the sectarian violence of
Oxfam publicly raised concerns after she agreed to become the commercial face of Sodastream, made in an occupied Israeli-West Bank settlement.
The international aid organization Oxfam chastised Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson in a statement this week over her new contract with a controversial Israeli company, leaving the starlette in the crosshairs of a worldwide ethical debate. The firm, SodaStream -- a business that offers at-home, soda-making products, is based in the occupied
The Syrian war in numbers.
DEAD: More than 130,000 people have been killed in Syria, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The U.N. has given up counting, saying it could no longer do so with any accuracy. REFUGEES: 2.3 million Syrians have official refugee status and 6.5 million others are displaced within Syria out of a total population of
The Feds “already spy on Americans so much that Rand Paul said it numbered in the ‘gazillions’ after a secret meeting last fall.”
For the second time in less than a year, the Missouri House of Representatives will be considering legislation that will regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles within the state. Missouri House Bill 1204, the Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act, states that “no person, entity, or state agency shall use a drone or other
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that 61 people have died in the Yarmouk Camp in the past three months.
BEIRUT (AP) — More than 60 people have died over the past months in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Syria's capital from a lack of food and medicine, an activist group said Friday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the first person died in the Yarmouk camp in June. It said a total of 63 people have died
In the whole of American history, there have been only four serious attempts made on the federal level to establish and strengthen the social safety net.
In the United States today, one in every six Americans live in poverty. One in seven is unsure where their next meal will come from and 1.6 million kids were forced to live in emergency shelters. In his first State of the Union address 50 years ago, Lyndon B. Johnson called on Congress to declare war against this plight. “Let this session
