Social movements under intense attack despite Colombia ‘peace plan’
What connection does the U.S. government or U.S. companies have to the conflict?
Ethiopia: Amhara genocide and the threat of civil war
If peace, social harmony and democracy are to be established, long-term constitutional reform is needed, ethnic federalism abandoned and fair and open parliamentary elections held.
Who’s a bigger threat to democracy—immigrants, or billionaires?
Don’t be distracted by the anti-immigrant rhetoric this election. The real impact on democracy comes from moneyed elites.
U of Florida Law School: Where racism and originalism converge
Preston Damsky, a law-school prize for an essay written for the judge's seminar, argued that the Constitution was originally intended only for white people and therefore even today non-whites could not claim their Constitutional rights and privileges.
$5.2 trillion; that’s the savings over 10 years by creating a Medicare for all...
How can such monumental savings be captured?
The undemocratic reality of capitalism
Democracy is about “one person, one vote”—the notion that we all have an equal say in the decisions that affect us. That is not what we have now.
Britain’s role in attacks on Cyprus, Venezuela, and Iran
The UK's compliance with the U.S. war on Iran.
Liberal media propaganda tells the world: America is first
. . . toward America First-ism in foreign policy.
Medea Benjamin: Pink-Slipping Hillary
A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war — killing people around the world, plenty of them women and children.
The problem with ‘humanely raised’ poultry and eggs
Chicken producers are misleading consumers with misinformation.