NEW YORK — Six years after America sank into the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s, the jobless rate has fallen to 5.9 percent, the lowest since July 2008. But one demographic group — African-American men — seems to be stuck in a permanent recession.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was working towards a guaranteed basic income for all when he was killed.
Hundreds participate in a march and rally calling for a moratorium on water shutoffs from Cobo Center to Hart Plaza in Detroit on July 18, 2014.
When President Obama said he intended to strike Syria last year after the Assad regime launched a chemical weapons attack…
PANAMA CITY, (IPS) – With the expansion of the canal, Panama hopes to see its share of global maritime trade rise threefold.
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New tensions erupted in St. Louis on Wednesday evening after an off-duty police officer shot and killed Vonderrit Myers Jr, an 18-year-old African American man. The officer, who has not been named, was working at his second job as a security guard but was still wearing his police uniform when the incident occurred.
There are no international laws or principles US imperialism is bound to respect. US imperialism’s “coalition of the willing” is waging war with ISIS…
With all of the discussion about ISIS/ISIL, Al Qaeda, etc., one would think that the only terror on this planet is that derived from relatively small numbers of criminal fascists…
The recent New York Times article about Henry Kissinger’s plans to launch air strikes against Cuba as reported in William LeoGrande’s recent book ‘Back Channel to Cuba’
FERGUSON MISSOURI – Missouri authorities are drawing up contingency plans and seeking intelligence from U.S. police departments on out-of-state agitators, fearing that fresh riots could erupt if a grand jury does not indict a white officer for killing a black teen.
“The value put on black life by the occupation force in Ferguson and in our communities across the country is no different than the value put on the lives of the “natives” in Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S. occupation forces.”