The war on drugs has been a $1tn failure. For more than four decades, governments around the world have pumped huge sums of money into ineffective and repressive anti-drug efforts.

Nicole C. Lee, the first woman president of TransAfrica, the oldest African-American foreign policy organization, today announced that she is resigning after eight years on the job to pursue her other passions, which are many.

For more than a decade, radical analysis has provided reams of studies revealing the political and economic dominance of an increasingly narrow sector of the U.S. and European corporate and financial elite.

In marches and street demonstrations, people across the world on Thursday were marking May Day, or International Labr Day, by demanding better treatment of working people and union members as they also called for respect of democratic freedoms and equal rights.

On the evening of Jan. 27, Kareem Serageldin walked out of his Times Square apartment with his brother and an old Yale roommate and took off on the four-hour drive to Philipsburg, a small town smack in the middle of Pennsylvania.
When a product sells phenomenally well, as Thomas Piketty’s new book is currently doing, popular economic theory says that means one of two things:

The lack of markets to supply raw materials for Cuba’s new private sector, along with the poverty in isolated rural communities, is fuelling the poaching of endangered species of flora and fauna. In 2010, the socialist government of Raúl Castro gave the green light to private enterprise in a
CHICAGO (CMC) – A prominent United States lawmaker says he will re-introduce legislation in the US Congress to study reparations for African Americans as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries push ahead with plans for reparation from Europe.

According to a study conducted by researches at the University of Minnesota, nonwhite people (black, Asian, Hispanic), regardless of income…
More than 40 years ago, psychiatry professor Lester Grinspoon wrote a groundbreaking book on marijuana that the New York Times dubbed at the time “the best dope on pot.”
When Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert was announced as the replacement for David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Night,” progressives celebrated while conservatives retched.

WASHINGTON D.C.,IPS – In the United States, African American children continue to face more barriers to success than any other race, new research suggests.