Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Drones accounted for 80% of civilian deaths in the war in Sudan in the first four months of 2026, killing at least 880 people.

Major oil and gas companies have been hiring social media influencers for years to reshape public perceptions of their role in producing the planet-heating carbon emissions fuelling the climate crisis.

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Generations of young people killed mandatory draft registration through silent noncompliance. Congress just gave the Selective Service a backdoor to bring it back.

Is the United States headed for a second Civil War? According to a survey of likely midterm voters published by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 57% of Americans believe it is.

In addition to monetary relief, eligible claimants will also receive a formal apology from the government.

Even by the standards of plutocratic dead-thought exercises, Jeff Bezos’s Wednesday sit-down with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin was mortifying.

""We already have the most progressive tax system in the world,” he lied again. “You could double the taxes I pay, it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens,” he added, also lying."

U.S. forces are killing people on drug boats in international waters while Trump pardoned the man convicted of overseeing the smuggling of 400 tons of cocaine.

@truthdig.com ran an excerpt from a chapter in my co-authored book, Pharma Monopoly, that traces how the drug industry and U.S foreign policymakers became partners in expanding the industry’s monopoly power. www.truthdig.com/articles/at-...

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Long before it became the jugular vein of the modern global economy, the stretch of water was the sacred and strategic maritime gateway to the Persian empire.

Food safety complaints spiked nearly 40% after USDA cuts and the 775 inspectors lost are not expected to be replaced.

A preview of what the new “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel might look like was just unveiled at a technology expo last weekend in Washington, D.C.

Since January 2025, the U.S. has killed more than 2,000 civilians in a furious blitz of global war-making across Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

The Democratic Women’s Caucus pulled support after Republicans amended the legislation to require that the museum exclude transgender women.

Bezos doing some extremely warmed-over projection about who helps create extremism doesn't work as well when he's singing for his subsidies to the same leader trying to siphon off $2 billion for putschists.

The billionaire’s self-pitying CNBC interview bombed with the public, but adoration is not the point of ultra-rich messaging — Nazi-shaming their critics is. By @mobute.bsky.social

Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into legal chaos.

A new book explains why drugs cost so much in the United States — and why Trump’s claims about addressing the crisis are bogus. www.truthdig.com/articles/at-...

Trump insisted he is slowing drug smuggling by sinking small boats and killing all aboard. In fact, Trump is *increasing* cocaine traffic through #Honduras, by recreating the Narco State. I explain @truthdig.com @bilbow.bsky.social @incompleteness.bsky.social www.truthdig.com/articles/tru...

Trump says Venezuelans are "really happy" and "dancing in the streets." Workers in Caracas were blocked by riot police for demanding a living wage.

It’s unclear how much longer Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer will last, but it’s safe to say his proverbial goose is cooked.

Cuba's fuel is exhausted. Washington threatened sanctions against any country that tried to sell the island more.

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Trump dropped a $10 billion IRS lawsuit and his DOJ responded by creating a $1.776 billion fund that Jan. 6 defendants can now claim from.

U.S. interference in Honduras will increase cocaine traffic.

How an exclusive mountaintop retreat for the megarich serves as “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.

Drone attacks in conflict settings rose 4,000% between 2020 and 2024. Governments are pouring funds into more.

Aspiring influencers share pro-industry climate messaging after attending a six-week content creation boot camp.

Mass resistance led Congress to end compulsory draft registration, but a plan for automatic registration threatens that victory.

John Roberts and his Republican bench mates have issued a blistering succession of dangerously polarizing decisions that have brought the country to the brink.

Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse five years ago, Haiti’s security situation has seriously deteriorated, gangs have grown more powerful and Haitians have had to adapt to a terrifying reality. www.truthdig.com/articles/gan...

@carrierickey.bsky.social reviews the new W.E.B. Du Bois documentary, on American Masters, for @truthdig.com www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

Heritage's own 90-page tract calls for stripping women of the vote without their husbands' paperwork, recriminalizing gay sex and gutting the Civil Rights Act — and it's not hiding any of it.

The American Masters biography of the scholar and civil rights pioneer airing on PBS could hardly be more timely.

Republicans are sprinting to dismantle democracy and at the same time they are finally running for their lives.

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After today's show, the Ed Sullivan Theater will go dark, and we’ll lose one of the nation’s funniest and most courageous, truthful and gentlemanly critics of Trump and his lawless regime.

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Keir Starmer's approval ratings fell below those of Liz Truss in less than two years.

One fuel tanker arrived in March. Cuba needs eight a month. Washington banned the rest and threatened other nations for trying to fill the gap.

Perhaps nowhere in the country is the fight over public lands — and the big-moneyed interests pulling the strings — more on display right now than in Montana’s Crazy Mountains.

Democratic leaders are still running Biden's hawkish China playbook.

Consumer complaints to the downsized department about meat, poultry and egg products rose nearly 40% last year.

Last weekend’s AI+ Expo in Washington opened a window onto Israel’s pivot away from direct U.S. aid and toward a model of joint research into AI and cyberwarfare.

A viral conspiracy theory claimed pharmaceutical companies were dumping boxes of ticks on farms to manufacture demand for a Lyme vaccine.