Pace the Communist Party, the contradictions and inadequacies of American democracy are not due to the nature of democracy per se, but due to the weakness and incompleteness of American democracy.
Photo of CNN building via Wikimedia Commons By Sharon Zhang / Truthout CNN has for years maintained a policy of running all of its coverage on Israel and Palestine, including its recent Gaza coverage, past its bureau in Jerusalem, where it is subject to the censorship policies set by Israel’s military, damning new reporting by The Intercept has revealed. The Jerusalem CNN staff who review the reporting do so under the watchful eye of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which, as The Intercept has
Book Banning Protest, Atlanta via By Sharon Zhang / Truthout As Republicans pursue a wave of book bans across the country seeking to censor Black history and LGBTQ representation, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) has introduced a bill that would classify many of these bans as violations of federal civil rights laws. Introduced last week, the would make the disproportionate exclusion of books that include content on certain populations in a library that receives federal funding a violation
For over a year, Israeli officials had detailed knowledge of the plan for the October 7 attack by Hamas forces but, despite knowing about the devastation