Voices for Change

As the U.S. and Cuba had their first formal meeting in more than half a century, Eduardo Galeano, the great Uruguayan writer who did so much to explain the deeply unequal relations, recently died. Will the open wounds be healed in Latin America?

Did Biden learn anything?

The environmental crisis is a great deal more serious, it is the challenge of the age and demands a coordinated global response.

Is the sickness of the modern culture the ability to exploit with impunity into a human right. Chris Hedges discusses Amnesty International's call to decriminalize prostitution.

History was made this week. The Cuban Embassy was filled beyond capacity with Cuban and American diplomats, government officials, artists, musicians and activists as the Cuban flag was raised once again in Washington.

Capitalism has placed monetary profit above the maintenance of life. "Ignoring the warnings of native communities, we have evoked the deadly wrath of nature. And I fear we may not be able to find our way back."

First, Donald Trump has been a giant wake-up call that we can’t take democracy for granted.

"My hope is that if the candidates start getting inundated with emails, they may decide to join the Global Climate Strike crowd."

Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations.

“Does it make any sense that House impeachment needs only a simple majority but the all-important Senate trial needs two-thirds to convict and remove?