By David Freedlander
Forget decriminalization or medical marijuana. Bolstered by state ballot victories, top-tier contenders in 2014 are seeking full legalization, the drug’s highest-profile advocacy ever.
By David Freedlander
Forget decriminalization or medical marijuana. Bolstered by state ballot victories, top-tier contenders in 2014 are seeking full legalization, the drug’s highest-profile advocacy ever.
The lending agency will assist the Caribbean and other low-income countries in strengthening policy buffers against shocks and advance policies “to help achieve more inclusive growth going forward, with a particular focus on capacity building.”
On Thursday evening December 5, Nelson Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa.
By Bill Moyers
I met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a series for public television called In Search of the Constitution, celebrating the bicentennial of our founding document.
By Dean Baker
In the past two days we’ve seen a federal judge rule that Detroit can go bankrupt, putting its workers’ pensions in jeopardy, and we have seen Illinois’ Legislature vote for substantial cuts in its retirees’ pensions.
My family, like the cops in our neighborhood, view my boyfriend as a trespasser. Stop and Frisk, a controversial policing policy in New York City, becomes real when it enters your home.
Chauncey DeVega, AlterNet
The right’s politics of cruelty would have the poor, the brown and even children ‘disappeared.’
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission chairman, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles said that public health was identified as one of the six areas for reparatory diplomacy and action.
The small Latin American country of Uruguay has become the only country that allows growing and selling marijuana
As the world joins together in celebrating the life of Nelson R. Mandela, South Africa’s “Madiba” who symbolizes freedom and dignity in every corner of the planet…
By Ajamu Baraka — “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” – Audre Lorde December 10 is recognized as International Human Rights Day and celebrated around the world….
by SANJEEV BRAICH
Nelson Mandela is dead, and the media pullulates with blazing adulation. Much of it is justified: we must, after all, extol Madiba’s courageous opposition to a barbarous system, and to the barbarous philosophy that maintained it in existence.