Subjects Archives: Inequality

“In a healthy democracy, we would be investing enough in our public-media system that it wouldn’t need to seek any corporate underwriting,” says Craig Aaron

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has condemned Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, as well as its decision to cut off electricity to the Palestinian enclave.

A federal judge in New York issued a ruling on Monday afternoon that the government cannot deport Mahmoud Khalil “unless and until the Court orders otherwise.”

The supporters of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (USN) inhabit the same contradictory moral and political space as the European leaders who met with Volodymyr Zelensky, their frontman from Ukraine, to reaffirm their collective commitment to the proxy war in Ukraine.

In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.

The International Criminal Court is being urged to investigate former U.S. officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

While the French Connection imported opium from Turkey, later in the 1960s the center of heroin production shifted to Southeast Asia against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The CIA’s Air America transported the junk.

The cancellation of Milo J’s show at the former ESMA is not an isolated event: it is further proof that the government of Javier Milei is afraid of art.

False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.

ON Friday, February 28, when U.S. President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office of the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump mused: ‘I hope I will be remembered as a peacemaker’.

In his famous “March to the Sea” in 1864, during the final phase of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman faced a problem.

John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.

In the Global South, women creatively resist the impact of unilateral coercive measures, a form of hyper-imperialist hybrid warfare that reinforces patriarchy and other forms of social discrimination.

Fifty years ago, the UN designated 1975 as the International Year of Women.

The Irish author talks about his new book on James Baldwin, his influences, and his enduring legacy.

For years, academic historians had dismissed the allegation that the U.S. had engaged in germ warfare in Korea as communist propaganda.

While Donald Trump has sent much of the world in a panic, his second term may strengthen China’s rise, just as his first did.

Israel is also preparing for the full-scale resumption of its genocidal war within 10 days if Hamas doesn’t accept its terms.

The Argentinian president gifted Elon Musk a custom chainsaw, which he promised to use to drastically reduce public spending in his new role as the de facto leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Baffled by the voters who shunned Bidenomics and complained about the economy, Democratic Party pundits are convinced that voters are simply ignorant of the facts.