François Hollande on Tuesday became the first president of France to make a formal state visit to Haiti, where bountiful resources and brutal plantation slavery made it the European nation’s…
By Phillip Smith / Alternet blacklivesmatter_0.png The Black Lives Matter movement sprung out of the unjust killings of young black men (Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown), either at…
by Chris Lehmann America has a curious attachment to the idea of gaudy wealth as the ultimate fount of virtue. Sure, there are a handful of saintly figures in…
Above Photo: Black Lives Matter Minneapolis marches after the shooting by white supremacists. Facebook/Adja Gildersleve. When five protesters were shot by white supremacists in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 22, my…
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) call on all progressives across the United States to join together in a broad coalition against the rising tide of racist and nativist politics…
By Nat Parry Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, as viewed from the International Space Station. (Photo by Scott Kelly/NASA) With more than 40,000 negotiators…
By: Shanita Hubbard 499321032-republican-candidate-donald-trump-arrives-to-speaks-to Republican candidate Donald Trump (fourth from left) arrives to speak to the press with the Rev. Darrell Scott (center), senior pastor of the New Spirit…
By Tony Dokoupil The planet is on the edge of catastrophic climate change, a warming of the globe that is already creating a mind-boggling array of human suffering. The…
Eric Herschthal On the face of it, what happened in the tiny island of Barbados 400 years ago seems irrelevant to Americans today. Even now, the island matters to…
By Martha A. Sandweiss A student shows signs made for a sit-in to demand a range of changes to improve the social and academic experience of black students, at…
By Mark Weisbrot The campaign for Venezuela’s December 6 National Assembly elections is only three weeks long, but in the United States it started about six months ago with leaks…
The Neo-Liberal Assault on Black Lives from Baltimore to Colombia by Ajamu Baraka Black people in Baltimore, USA, and Buenaventura, Colombia, are oppressed by the same monster. “In both…