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The 18th-century thinkers behind laissez-faire economics saw slavery as a great example of global free trade Plan of the French slave ship La Marie Seraphique c.1770. © Château des ducs de…

By Kehinde Andrews Brexit has re-awakened extreme racism in Britain The United Kingdom is coming to terms with the majority of the British people voting to leave the alliance of…

 By Anne Frugé  Africa, from space. (NASA) On June 13, two weeks before the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the African Union announced a new “single African passport.” The…

By Sam Pizzigati Later this summer, just a few weeks after this year’s Fourth of July celebrations, Democrats will be gathering in Philadelphia to make some presidential nomination history. Democrats —…

By Andrea Seabrook, www.marketplace.org Welcome to the post-Brexit world – a global economic outlook more uncertain than ever. Before we all go raising alarms though, remember: many of the economic fundamentals in…

by Pascal Robert “Few realize how the defeat of Napoleon by the brave former African slaves in Haiti opened the door for the dominance of the British Empire.” In the…

  By Denis Chabrol  Guyana’s Foreign Minister, Carl Greenidge and Caricom Secretary General, Irwin La Rocque briefing Guyanese media representatives and technical officials about the Caricom summit scheduled to be held in…

By Dave Johnson When you hear people saying that “even the IMF” is recommending economic actions that might help regular people, that’s a sign that something big is going down….

By La’Kayla Williams, Truthout  An attorney for a Black girl in Texas who came home from a school field trip in April with deep rope burns etched in her neck called the incident an…

By John Feffer This week might represent the beginning of the end for international cooperation. All the treaties, alliances, and unions that have incrementally strengthened the ties between nations over the…

By Maria Fabrizio (Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs) On Monday June 13, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust to…