3+ hour, 53+ min ago A major police operation was conducted last Thursday in the middle of Liverpool, a southwestern Sydney working-class centre. It was a graphic example of the kind of repressive conditions being imposed by Australian governments, on the pretext of responding to…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago The Trump administration last Thursday approved an $11.1 billion arms package to Taiwan'the largest single US weapons sale to the island in history. The package, the second since Trump was installed in office this year, is a calculated escalation in US…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago The media coverage and the extreme prison sentences make clear that the Russian state seeks to use this case, above all, to intimidate left-wing opposition to the Putin regime." A Russian military district court in Yekaterinburg has convicted five members…...

4+ hour, 27+ min ago Artists, musicians and senior cultural administrators appearing before a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry in Sydney on December 10 delivered a damning indictment of the state Labor government's cost-cutting measures. Their testimony exposed the destructive impact on cultural life of deep…...

4+ hour, 31+ min ago The recent award of a$1.6 millionunsolicited, single-source grant to the Bandim Health Project for a clinical trial in the impoverished West African country of Guinea-Bissau marks a significant shift in federal research priorities, directing US public funds to investigators, who…...

5+ hour, 7+ min ago The admin's letter threatened "involuntary reduction" if faculty didn't voluntarily accept termination, adding, "the severance package under an involuntary program would not be as substantial as the package offered through the voluntary option." The voluntary severance package includes a payout…...

5+ hour, 30+ min ago Four immigrants died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during a four-day period last week, all of them in detention facilities run by private prison companies. Three died in prisons run by GEO Group and one in a prison…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key development in human cultural evolution. The controlled use of fire was a key part of the development of human technology…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago On December 22, 1975, the First Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) concluded in Havana. The five-day event, attended by over 3,100 delegates, marked the formal "institutionalization" of the Cuban Revolution, moving it from rule by Fidel Castro's revolutionary decrees…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago In the latest lawless and dictatorial act organized by the Trump administration, the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. , owned and operated by the federal government, voted Thursday to change the venue's name…...