
The civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart has returned home from prison after a federal judge ordered her compassionate release. Stewart is 74 years old and dying from late-stage breast cancer.
The civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart has returned home from prison after a federal judge ordered her compassionate release. Stewart is 74 years old and dying from late-stage breast cancer.
By George Packer
With the financial crisis and Barack Obama’s ascent to the Presidency, 2008 struck many observers—including this one—as reminiscent of the watershed election year 1932.
by David Cay Johnston
Tech stocks have returned to bubble levels, thanks to PR, weak financial journalism and cheap credit.
Mayor Bill de Blasio takes the oath of office on a Bible held by his wife, Chirlane McCray, at City Hall in New York, January 1, 2014.
By Danny Schechter, Seven Stories Press | Book Excerpt
The late Nelson Mandela became an icon of a fearless leader on behalf of equality. He fought oppression, but in winning the battle of justice in South Africa, he did not pursue a path of vengeance.
By MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
The sheriff of Bastrop County, Texas, is a pretty happy man.
He just took possession of a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle for his police force
by JOSHUA FRANK
Journalist Max Blumenthal’s latest book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel has been one of the most controversial and enlightening books of 2013. It’s a fearless, no holds barred take on life in Israel and the brutal occupation of Palestine.
By Sharda Sekaran
The drug war is full of racism [3]and hypocrisy. It’s hard to argue against that reality. People intoxicate themselves, both illegally and legally, at much the same rates across racial lines.
The year 2013, will be remembered in the Caribbean for the ground breaking judgement by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as it relates to the free movement of Caribbean nationals across the region.
If you’ve ever been arrested on a drug charge, if you’ve ever spent even a day in jail for having a stem of marijuana in your pocket or “drug paraphernalia” in your gym bag…
By Chris Hedges
Money, as Karl Marx lamented, plays the largest part in determining the course of history.
The incarceration of vast swaths of the American public is now an aging issue. Our prisons have increasingly become homes for the aging, as there are now some 125,000 prisoners age 55 or older…