The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
The story behind the fiery Ohio train wreck only gets worse
From lobbying to remove brake safety regulations to cutting staffing numbers, the depth of Norfolk Southern’s responsibility for the ecological catastrophe is getting clearer by the day, write MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
THE controlled burn of toxic chemicals in East Palestine filled the air the residents breathe, and covered the waters in and around town and the soil too with chemicals. Dead fish are floating in the creeks and a frightening smell lingers.
The story unfolding here is shot through with corporate greed. The executives of the criminally negligent railroad company Norfolk Southern (NS) manipulated the political system to maximise profits from that train — and others — to satisfy their Wall Street investors, at the expense of safety, workers and now a small town in Ohio.
It’s a story not just of the wreck of the 150-car, 9,300-foot freight train, where 50 cars jumped the tracks, but the widening variety of toxic chemicals that escaped from them. It’s a story of dying plants, 3,500 dead fish in an Ohio River tributary, and a mass evacuation of the town of 4,700 people.
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