By Phillip Smith / Alternet An as yet unnamed man killed by police in Rawlins, Wyoming, on December 30, after they were called to a convenience store about a person believed to be selling…
By Syed Mohammad Ali The writer holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is the author of Development, Poverty and Power in Pakistan, available from Routledge Conspiracy theorists…
By Raj Patel The Studebakers plying up and down Havana’s boardwalk aren’t the best advertisement for dynamism and innovation. But if you want to see what tomorrow’s fossil-fuel-free, climate-change-resilient, high-tech farming…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speaks to a crowd in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) In a violent and fragmented society, sometimes…
By Jean H Charles December 28, 2015, marked the 200th anniversary (December 28, 1815) of the visit by Simon Bolivar to Les Cayes, Haiti, seeking assistance from Alexander Petion, president…
By Brittney Cooper In 2011, high school senior Taylor Bell, a local rapper in Itawamba County, Mississippi, made a song in support of several female classmates who claimed they had been…
The African Sun Times, Africa’s number one and largest newspaper in America, has announced its Persons-of-the-Year, as well as the Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year. The…
By Steven Rosenfeld When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 and 2012, he didn’t just run on hope and change. He made hundreds of promises, everything from changing the way…
By: Yesha Callahan If there’s one thing that 2015 has taught us, it’s that racism isn’t a thing of the past; it’s a thing of the present. The idea of a…
By Mike Ludwig (Photo: NASA; Edited: LW / Truthout) 1. Anthropogenic Climate Disruption As world leaders prepared to haggle over the future of the planet at the COP21 climate summit in Paris,…
By Thomas Piketty Excerpt From the Introduction to Capital in the Twenty-First Century: “Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.”—Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, article…
By William I. Robinson (Image: Rising tide via Shutterstock)We are nearing 2016, the year when the richest 1 percent of humanity will own more than the rest of the world, according to projections…