Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Study linking US sanctions to Venezuelan deaths buried by Reuters for over a month

Western media outlets are perfectly willing to ignore their own reporting when it suits powerful interests.

Extinction is stalking humanity: The threats to human survival accumulate

I have previously written a summary of the interrelated psychological, sociological, political-economic, military, nuclear, ecological and climate threats to human survival on...

How states can better care for direct care workers

As the American population ages, the need for care workers is exploding. Direct care jobs, like home health and personal care aides,...

Right-wing politicians fear “invasion” of Europe & US by migrants and refugees

Governments like the U.S. are not changing harmful foreign policies that are driving conflict and persecution.

Never had a chance!

It was 1956, Brooklyn, NYC, the year after our beloved Dodgers had finally won a World Series from those Damn Yankees. We...

Compassion versus greed

Why do we permit investors to latch on to apartments and neither live in them nor put them up for rent?

67 years in the peace movement

I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses the things that I have experienced during my 67 years of work in the peace movement.

How the Native American population in the US increased 87% says more about whiteness...

Another way to describe this recent adoption of Native American identity is what I call “racial shifting.”

Nice try, Chris Hedges, but neither Joyce, nor Ulysses offers a relevant political manifesto

Where's proof behind Hedges' hyperbole that James Joyce is especially unique in railing against the "poisons of nationalism and idolatry"—or offers political urgency?

Al Jazeera America is Being Cancelled

Hundreds of jobs are soon to be lost at Al Jazeera America to shut down all operations come April.