Note: I’m sure many have reflections on Occupy and its impact personally, socially and politically. As we have reflected on Occupy…
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SANTIAGO, Sep 17 2014 (IPS) – Latin America and the Caribbean, the world’s most unequal region, has made the greatest progress towards improving food…
By the time President Obama announced the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, PMSCs [private military and security companies] were in line to collect billions of dollars in contracts for at least another five years. They included SOC, Inc. (the firm with the extensive training site in Nevada, whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion)…
As reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, new public opinion research by the Remington Research Group has revealed that 62 percent of white St. Louis residents believe that the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was shot multiple times while surrendering with his hands in the air, by a white police officer named Darren Wilson, was justified.
Rather limp efforts to shrink America’s devastatingly high prison population have run into a snag.
A 22-year-old biracial man was shot dead by cops in a small Utah town last week after, they claim, he charged them with a sword, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
January 1, 2014 marked the 210th Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, one of the greatest events in human history. Never before had an enslaved people rebelled against their slave masters to declare their independence and establish a nation. Inspired by the exhortations and sacrifice of the spiritual priest Boukman and ably led by Toussaint Louverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe and Alexandre Petion, this is precisely what the enslaved Africans of Haiti achieved. They crushed the military forces of Napoleon Bonaparte at the pinnacle of his power and established the world’s first Black Republic!
It’s been a month since the shooting of Michael Brown, who was unarmed, black and 18 years old.
If the U.S. does nothing, the Arab world will continue its slide into sectarian bigotry, political repression, and madness. This will come back to haunt the United States.
“Michael Brown doesn’t want to be remembered for a riot,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said at the shooting victim’s funeral.
ROME, Italy – Pope Francis spoke on Saturday at a cemetery only a few miles from where his Italian grandfather fought…
Sometimes conservative politicians, particularly those who hail from the South, accidentally forget to dog-whistle and they say what’s really on their minds.
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