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Alexei Navalny under arrest Alexei Navalny, a Russian political opposition figure whose popularity in the West far exceeded his support in Russia, died while...

DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod joined AnewZ.tv (Baku, Azerbaijan) this morning to discuss the escalating U.S.-Iran nuclear standoff and the sharp divisions at the...

Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and...

Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the...

Employment opportunities in Ethiopia are scarce, particularly for young women with only a basic education from rural areas where 85% of the population live....

Not caring for others has become endemic in our troubled society ravaged by poverty, a growing disease afflicting millions at a terrible time of diminishing...

If you are competent you are criminal, if you cannot distinguish an inkblot from a summons, the doctors will pronounce you are a psychotic. If you lie, you...

When the tears dry, it is worth considering why there is so much upset about the fall of Kabul (or reconquest) by the Taliban and the messy withdrawal of...

My friend Hanna is Syrian and also happens to be Christian. The latter fact was rarely of consequence, except whenever he wished to boast about the...

In February of 2013, I stood in a sweaty, overcrowded Port-au-Prince courtroom and watched as Jean-Claude Duvalier answered questions about hundreds of his...

Dear Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Kevin Hollinrake, I feel compelled to write to you over my extreme concern regarding the health and well-being...

Philip Morris International today starts business as an independent company, no longer affiliated with Philip Morris USA or the parent company, Altria. Philip...

Climate scientists were muzzled from speaking to the press, causing an 80 percent decrease in the coverage of environmental stories. See video.

In a book which seemingly offers simple, but clever, rules to help people gain control over their lives, psychologist Jordan Peterson curiously pours a lot of...

First Prediction: Bernie Madoff will not, I repeat, will not be named Treasury Secretary by President Elect Barak Obama this time around. He already was an...

If the American Dream can be reduced to a single object, it is the suburban home, with its front yard, back yard and two car garage. This residence must not...

Bigotry lets stupid people feel powerful. They are bigots because they are greedy, and they are greedy because they are fearful. They are fearful because they...

Charter schools are the main form of school privatization in the United States. As such, they have never been part of a true organic grass-roots movement, that...

Last week two giant war corporations, Raytheon and United Technologies, announced they would merge in early 2020. The new behemoth, to be known as Raytheon...

For all those Facebook friends out there who are determined to explain to me the virtues of their particular candidate for president or the immorality of their...

Be warned, this is probably only something appropriate for reading on a Casual Friday or Profanity Wednesday. There are many horrendous things going on in the...

Fight Stigma, Not the Stigmatized by David Connor / April 11th, 2014 Back in 1945, Dr. Walter Freeman struck out across America on a mission to save the

Political economy is more often than not depicted as a Left-Right bifurcation. This is too simplistic. It overlooks the difference between, on the one hand,...

Nancy A. Heitzeg, Ph.D, is a Professor of Sociology and Program Co-Director, Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity at St Catherine University in St. Paul,...

Some people believe in a god sitting on a cloud and others believe that the Earth is a flat disk, despite the photos of Earth, the moon, Mars, and other...

By the end of 2020 more people will have died from hunger, despair and suicide than from the corona disease. We, the world, is facing a famine-pandemic of...

Qohaito is a mysterious, ancient, pre-Aksumite settlement in the Eritrean highlands, with several impressive monolithic columns rising towards the sky. It is...

For most Americans, the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, and the Russian military response, is akin to an obscure murder mystery. In a post-9/11 world, the...

During his four years as President of the United States, Donald Trump was remarkably active and often successful in sabotaging the health and safety of the...

It was another bead in the string of jurisprudence and case law in climate litigation. Previous sparkling examples include Urgenda Foundation (2019),...

Prof. Richard Wolff argues that the system in the US is falling apart. Capitalism is surviving because of all the support provided by the American government...

An Israeli occupation army soldier earlier this month shot from a close range and injured a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee, an Israeli human...

A hound and a cat sat on a couch and watched TV. The hound flipped through the channels with the remote but could only find two mollusks debating how stupid...

Bend the stormy wave To catch the fallen rain, hear the sudden sigh To still the spoken word, the bloodied sword to sheathe Too late, hold the silent sunrise...

On April 9, ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburgh broke an exclusive story on World News Tonight that provided new details surrounding how top Bush...

CODEPINK (Credit) Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions...

Uttering the word Arizona anywhere in the world nowadays creates a visceral reaction. For some, it evokes the specter of Nazi Germany; for others, a...

We are living amongst the largest generation of young people in history; young people who are better educated, better informed and more widely connected than...

By the late-90s we must have sensed that the shit was hitting the fan. The fire at Waco. The Unabomber envelopes. The downing of Flight 800. The World Trade...

Despite the sharp charges and counter-charges about foreign/military and national security policy there are no important differences on such matters between...

Reflections on the psychological, moral and political implications of what we eat, and on prospects for non-violent social change. Tell me what you eat and I...

A titan triumphs over a hawk. A tiger is smothered by cheese. An Indian chief is electrocuted. A native escapes the wrath of a pirate. A bear rips through a...

Just when the prospects for single-payer or full Medicare for everyone, with free choice of doctors and hospitals, appear to be going nowhere, from...

My Tuesday evening walk to the General Assembly of Occupy Austin begins near 5th St. and Colorado as I enter the fashionable warehouse district occupied by...

How does one assess the cuts to the welfare safety net? Let us, for the sake of argument, put aside whether cutting the deficit should be the priority in the...

We wash our hands and blow our noses leaving thoughts like solid waste separating segregating to avoid bad taste. Falling failures dripping dissent heaving...

Orientation With the recent kidnapping of President Maduro by Yankee imperialists, I wonder about how BRICS nations and other countries sympathetic to them...

Colonialism has as its aim gaining ownership/control of the land and its resources regardless of whether or not the land was already populated by an Indigenous...

Traces of what used to be are hidden from the truth, spread upon fallow ground, barren and parched. Forgotten love and distant dreams buried far below. I will...

The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October...

An optimistic president pledged to end child hunger by the year 2015, in time for his second term in a diminishing office. But hunger has grown despite...

Time passes by the window. A grackle carries a minute to the palm tree across the street, the lady who walks past each day kicks a few more along the pavement...

With the Obama administration in full damage control mode over revelations of blanket surveillance of global electronic communications, new documents published...

Summary Several global generic ideologies were seeded by the USA-controlled United Nations (UN) of the early 1990s, following the dissolution of the USSR, and...

Decades ago James Lovelock constructed a principle called the Gaia hypothesis, contending that a biosphere teeming with life works together with inorganic...

They killed black woman Recently, when a retired Chilean U.N. employee tried to enter ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the...

On the Phone from Nairobi Serena Hotel, September 11, 2007 This week former UN Stephen Lewis, former UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, was invested as...

In 1988 I was travelling from NYC to Arizona by plane one night. It was a long 5 hour flight, and we were on a jumbo jet. I was standing alongside this man,...

George Aleman III is an MA student in history and also a writer, activist, and musician.

On January 24th, Burkina Faso bore witness to its third destabilizing coup in less than a decade. It also marked the eighth successful putsch American soldiers...

I have yet to meet a Marxist who admits the existence of the coordinator class. In a way, this is completely understandable. As soon as you admit the existence...

This is from Wikipedia: 12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose...

Despite all of the talk and promise of hope and change, it is now apparent that President Obama plans to try to restart capitalism as it was prior to August...

1 SOP IMade easy by deceitfully holding outthe supremely-ironic fairy-tale promiseof its cure-all code-word tonics namely safety security and the surety of...

Formal schooling is part and parcel of contemporary economic exigencies. By the same token, the education system emerged from a reservoir of totalitarian...

July 28 will mark almost the 90th anniversary of one of most controversial protests in U.S. history and yet it remains virtually unknown to most Americans. On...

They walked hundreds of miles their stomachs empty, their minds full of fears of having lost jobs to a virus whose scientific import they did not understand,...

Australia has a mixed relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Irritation, dismissal and even the occasional openly hostile comment, have...

Increasing evidence emerges that confirms what ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern suggests was a classic off-the-shelf intelligence operation initiated during the...

There are numerous reasons to admire you, as I have for many years. Clearly you are running for president as a Republican, rather than a third party candidate,...

If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems...

One of the most common and persistent criticisms made about charter schools over the last 30+ years is that they frequently shortchange special needs students....

In the 20th century, several radical thinkers of considerable stature aimed to rethink, and possibly transcend, the premises of State-oriented,...

I teach English at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California. I love my school, my amazing colleagues, and the kids who enter my classroom each year....