Hope and Wonder Amidst the Misery
British artist and writer Benjamin Crème has been traveling the world preaching to anyone who would listen that Maitreya, the World Teacher, is out there gradually emerging into public view. The story is an extraordinary message of hope.
Another season of despair
Or a pigskin blue wave?
Eight holiday gifts American workers need
Here are eight gifts that would convert workers’ blue, blue, blue, blue Christmases to white.
Trump calls Howard Zinn’s work ‘propaganda.’ Hear the legendary historian in his own words.
Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom.
Maine becomes first state to ban Native American mascots at public schools and universities
"Our people, communities and understanding and respect for one another are Maine's source of pride, and it is time our symbols reflect that."
Corporate media are focusing on race — and dodging class
U.S. news outlets doing decent coverage of police violence can rarely supply clarity about the “free enterprise” economic violence that is taking countless lives.
Asylum seekers on US-Mexico border are waiting for days in the hot sun, told...
Democracy Now! went to the international bridge in Brownsville, Texas, and found asylum seekers waiting for days in the hot sun after being told the United States was full.
Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma & long recovery
The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.
‘We are not robots’: Amazon workers across Europe walk out on Black Friday over...
Amazon CEO "Jeff Bezos is the richest bloke on the planet; he can afford to sort this out," says a U.K. union leader.
After the insurrection, America’s far-right groups get more extreme
The Conversation asked Matthew Valasik, a sociologist at Louisiana State University, and Shannon E. Reid, a criminologist at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte, to explain what right-wing extremist groups in the U.S. are doing.