Monday, August 16, 2021 — On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor talks with special guests Earl Ofari Hutchinson and Bill Fletcher. Topic President…
The California Democrat was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. By Andrea…
By WJ Astore — I retired from the U.S. military in 2005. I had no direct role in America’s Afghan war, which means I have no personal stake in trying…
By Steve Bailey, Post and Courier — On Tuesday, Charleston City Council will receive the recommendations that the Special Commission on Equity, Inclusion and Racial Conciliation spent more than a…
By Lois Requist, Desert Sun — The receipt for the sale of a 9-year-old girl. That, and Derek Chauvin’s knee on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, got my attention. Until…
America Faces an Historical Crossroads – Neoliberalism’s tax cuts for the morbidly rich would incentivize them to start new businesses By Thom Hartmann, Independent Media Institute — The Democratic Party…
Megachurches and the men who lead them can be superrich. So why don’t the IRS and local authorities see a cent in taxes? A scholar explains. By Ryan Cragun, The…
Worldwide, democracy is in decline, with two-thirds of the world’s people living in autocracies, including “electoral autocracies.” By Frances Moore Lappé, CommonDreams — How can a democracy committed to freedom of…
Longtime social worker Joe Benton Joins the Ancestors. Nana Joe E. Benton August 10, 1946 – August 8, 2021 Our beloved Joe Elbert Benton, Jr made his transition to join…
By Sarah Marsh, Reuters — Cuba is bringing back hundreds of doctors working abroad and converting hotels into isolation centers and hospitals in order to battle a COVID-19 crisis that…
The US Government has gifted the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with 5.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccines. This is the culmination of efforts initiated by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and…
By Bert Wilkinson — A serious war of two worlds is emerging in the 15-nation Caribbean community with one demanding mass vaccinations of citizens to achieve herd immunity and the…