The price of cognac could increase significantly in France as the government plans a tax increase on strong alcoholic drinks. The proposal is part of the government's new social security budget.

Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who is suspected of taking bribes from the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, has been arrested at his residence in Guayaquil and transferred to the ...

Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely-published Irish author and journalist. He has been living in Japan since 1999. Ó Cathail's articles and commentaries have appeared on a number of media outlets and ...

I feel as if I’m repeating myself over and over for the past 8 years. Each time that I think I’ve written about everything, the government comes out with something else. The Bush regime was a ...

Wally Adeyemo, Biden administration’s second-highest official in the Treasury Department, appeared to publicly blackmail the still-sizable portion of Americans not vaccinated against Covid-19 ...

There is much talk about the need for greater sharing in our societies today, in everything from household goods and peer-to-peer services to cooperative enterprises and the ‘commons’.

Most days, Sharihan Hannoun and her family sit along the sidewalk on dusty white plastic chairs watching the East Jerusalem home from which they were forcibly evicted, watching as the strangers ...

Fully-vaxxed people filling up hospitals in the US and catching covid at higher rates than unvaccinated in the UK the media has decided to shift the narrative to embrace catching covid as a good ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s repressive regime had motive and easy opportunity. We’ll likely never know for sure if he or his fascist cronies were responsible. Suspicions are warranted. On Saturday ...

Newly released ACLU Justice Department documents and Kurt Eichenwald's just published book titled "500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars" provide new ...

Israel is attacking defenseless Palestinians with lethal force and vicious propaganda - reflecting state terror fueled by longstanding racist hate, wanting maximum ...

Currently waging multiple imperial wars, Obama perhaps plans more. On October 11, the Department of Justice charged Iranian involvement in a fake terror plot to kill ...