Subjects Archives: Inequality

NewsClick and various unions welcomed the verdict, hailing the Delhi High Court ruling as a strong stand in support of independent journalism and a warning against the misuse of state power.

When SpaceX shares began trading on the Nasdaq on June 12, the trap was already set.

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region and calls for more rigorous research that can trace the funding infrastructure behind terrorist groups.

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults–regardless of insurance type–reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.

Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, the FBI and several police departments kept lists of known homosexuals and their friends, and even places they frequented, and the U.S. Post Office kept a list of addresses of people who received mail of a suspected homosexual nature.

Laws across the country targeting transgender people are driving families to relocate.

As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a U.S. special forces invasion of Ukraine.

When major newspapers write about the definition or prevalence of antisemitism, they frequently look to the ADL.

One of the poorest kids in town, Macy was more neglected than abused by her alcoholic father, “the town drunk.” She “found refuge” in her friends’ homes or the living room of her grandmother who taught her to read and write and play checkers. She “took solace” in the nearby public library and the public school and “the women in charge of those sacred places who were also my demigods.”

“While working families struggle to feed their families, Republicans are cutting funding for fruit and vegetable vouchers for women, infants, and children,” said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro.

In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a single pill of Daraprim, an antiparasitic drug used by cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750.00.

AMY GOODMAN: In a rare reversal for the Trump administration, the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday the Department of Justice would not be moving forward with the $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund, even after the temporary pause mandated by the court.

The strategy combines public investment, tenant protections, and non-market housing at a scale rarely seen in North America.

The Stammheim trials and Germany’s ideological justice.

The Productive Lever of Sovereignty.

COM: We already know right now the situation in Bolivia and the crisis is currently unfolding. What can you say about what is happening right now, about the strike?

It doesn’t take a genius to see the political motivation behind the judicial and police apparatus’s actions against Zapatero, given his clear political ties to the Sánchez government.

The departure of Cuban doctors from Venezuela, driven by growing U.S. pressure on Havana’s overseas medical missions, is deepening healthcare shortages.

ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation.

JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip.