In January, Truthout issued a statement of solidarity with the journalists arrested while covering protests around the inauguration of Donald Trump, signed by over 100 journalists and other members of the media, including our own staff. We condemned “this blatant criminalization of journalism” and demanded that all charges against those journalists be dropped immediately. At the time […]

The US House Foreign Affairs Committee has unanimously passed legislation that would cut funding to the Palestinian Authority. The committee approved the bill known as the Taylor Force Act on Wednesday. It stipulates a cut in funding to the Palestinian Authority unless it discontinues paying stipends to the families of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces. […]

Germany’s intelligence agency and representatives of the German army have interfered in the negotiations over the formation of the next federal government. They insist on increased military expenditure, a confrontational course towards Russia and ruthless measures against refugees. On Tuesday, the President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) Bruno Kahl gave a “keynote speech” at […]

RT has filed for registration as a ‘foreign agent’ in the US, as November 13 is the deadline, Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has announced.

After an Air Force veteran with a criminal history was able to buy guns and kill 29 people in a Texas church, a Pentagon-wide investigation found that the Army is failing to alert the FBI about soldiers’ criminal histories in a “significant amount” of cases. On Wednesday, Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, […]

Democrats made substantial progress in November, reclaiming numerous state and local government seats long held by Republicans. This phenomenon is due largely to an unprecedented level of enthusiasm among Democratic voters eager to voice to their opposition to President Donald Trump, according to a pair of local candidates, who witnessed the effect firsthand. The incendiary […]

The power of foreign policy nationalism is immense. Even the primary victims of the Canadian state have been drawn into this country’s mythology. Dispossessed of 99% of their land, Indigenous people have been made wards of the state, had their movement restricted and religious/cultural ceremonies banned. Notwithstanding their antagonistic relationship to the Canadian state, indigenous […]

US President Donald Trump has warned “twisted” North Korea that the international community will tolerate what he called the country’s “nuclear blackmail,” pledging to shore up support for “maximum pressure” against Pyongyang. Trump made the remarks on Wednesday, a day after he wrapped a 12-day trip to Asia aimed at rallying pressure against the North’s […]

As Alabama Republican US Senate candidate Roy Moore fights an allegation of attempted rape of an underage girl, very little media attention has been paid to a Democrat running for Congress who has been arrested on a felony stalking charge. On Wednesday, Moore’s campaign attorney Phillip Jauregui held a press conference outside the Alabama Republican […]

The former MI6 spy behind an infamous dossier that accused Donald Trump of asking prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Russia because Barack Obama once slept there insists his report is “70 to 90 percent” accurate. The claims have been widely discredited. In a new book on the subject, ‘Collusion: How Russia Helped […]