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Iraq Mourns After Weekend Bombing Deathtoll Rises Above 200 People
The deathtoll from a massive truck bomb detonated in a Baghdad shopping district over the weekend has climbed to over 200 people, with hundreds more injured and scores still missing,…
Activist Janae Bonsu talks BYP100, queer Black identity
Black Youth Project 100 ( BYP100 ) National Public Policy Chair Janaé Bonsu’s journey as an activist began about three years ago. However, the seeds were sown during her childhood…
Priester: Liz Warren could be ticket Hillary Clinton needs to ride to victory
One glass ceiling separates Hillary Clinton from returning to her former place of residence on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But to get there, she’ll have to confront serious voter skepticism about…
African Union Plans for Single, Common Passport, Free Trade Across the Continent, Raising Hopes for a Unified Africa
Is the world witnessing the makings of the United States of Africa? The African Union has taken a step toward integration of the continent. At its summit taking place in…
Mohammed Ali and US gun violence
The death of Muhammad Ali brought forth the usual media avalanche of tributes, most of which concentrated on his sporting record. Ali however was much more than that, as the…
TransCanada deal could gush riches for ex-NiSource execs
A group of executives who exited NiSource’s Merrillville headquarters just 11 months ago stand to realize a rich payday if TransCanada’s $13 billion purchase of Columbia Pipeline Group is approved…
CEOs Of Failing Coal Companies Get Bonuses, Workers Get Laid Off
The advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Tuesday showing how top executives for three giant coal companies got large compensation boosts even as they laid off workers and cut their benefits. The…
The Rise of the Corporatocracy
A clear and troublesome picture of corporate power has emerged in recent years where rising inequality is now simply the distinction of expanding corporate activity and those being left behind.…
Fracking fight looms for Democrats
Fracking and the environment are set to be one of the most contentious battlegrounds for allies of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as they seek to craft the Democratic Party’s platform…
CIA Chief: ‘War on Terror’ Has No Effect
According to Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, nearly two decades of the “War on terror” has done little to reduce the number of Islamic terrorists. Even worse: Daesh is…
Ex-president accuses school of withholding retirement payout
Former University of the Cumberlands President James Taylor says the school is defaulting on a promise to pay an annual post-retirement payout of $400,000, and now Taylor has filed suit…
Anti-Nuke Group Puts Pressure on Edison
Urging local residents living near tons of stored radioactive waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to take action, five specialists presented views on safety dangers to more than…
20,000 Domestic Workers Are About to Get Fair Wages. How’d They Do That?
Myrla Baldonado left the Philippines and settled in the suburbs of Chicago in 2006. She found work caring for the elderly and ill, whom she fed, bathed, clothed, and gave…
CIA Chief Just Confirmed “War on Terror” Has Created A Lot More Terrorists
Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan said Thursday that, years into the United States’ fight against the Islamic State, the terrorist group’s reach and power have not been diminished and…
With the TPP Nearing Ratification, U.S. Government Remains Deaf to the Failures of CAFTA-DR
Any student in an entry level economics class, as well as many liberals, would tell you that free trade, based on the law of comparative advantage, is mutually beneficial to…
How Unethical Is Buying Weed?
In many jurisdictions in the US, weed is so close to legal that you’re more likely to get busted for flying a drone in the wrong place than for getting…
What Activists Committed to the Long-Haul Fight Can Learn from the Life of Organizer Fred Ross
The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the…
Beyond Bernie, Beyond Capitalism
It seems to be a law of modern politics that the health of a democracy stands in inverse proportion to the length of its presidential campaign season. If so, the…
Burning Issues: Reexamining Our Africa Policy
Emira Woods, associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says in this Burning Issues video that the next U.S. president needs to think of Africa differently and ally with…
The Supposedly Liberal NY Review of Books Published a Very Strange Review of Chomsky’s Latest
In the first paragraph of his surprisingly inept and unfriendly review in the New York Review of Books of Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World? (May 2016), Kenneth Roth described the…
Primary Election Coverage
We’ll also talk to Ruth Conniff, editor-in-chief of the Progressive Magazine and Bill Fletcher, former president of TransAfrica Forum and Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies among many others.…
Bush and Cheney belong in jail: America must answer for its illegal war on terror
“The cold was terrible but the screams were worse,” Sara Mendez told the BBC. “The screams of those who were being tortured were the first thing you heard and they…
Noam Chomsky: Our Universities Are Basically Just Churning Out Obedient Employees
Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss current issues in education and American domestic…
Crimes of the War on Terror
“The cold was terrible but the screams were worse,” Sara Mendez told the BBC. “The screams of those who were being tortured were the first thing you heard and they…
Failing coal CEOs rake in big bonuses as they screw workers
The advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Tuesday showing how top executives for three giant coal companies got large compensation boosts even as they laid off workers and cut their benefits. The…
UNGASS 2016: What prospect for change?
In the words of the Grateful Dead, what a long, strange trip it’s been. Debates at UNGASS 2016, the UN General Assembly’s third grand meeting to discuss and agree policy…
The war on drugs ‘failure’ prompts calls for drug policy reform
Combating the illicit drug trade has long been spoken of by policy makers as the ‘war on drugs’, particularly in the United States, but also here in Australia. The determination…
Best Approach to Drugs
Sanho Tree of the Institute for Policy Studies has told Tom Elliott that the ‘war on drugs’ is failing because it only makes drugs more valuable. “It’s a demand-driven problem,” Mr…
Neera Tanden Explains the One Big Difference Between the Democrats’ and the Republicans’ Civil Wars
A child of immigrants who got reduced-price lunches at school, a Massachusetts native who talks with a Southern California lilt, a Yale-trained lawyer and a former Hillary aide: Was there…
Imperialism’s Junior Partners
On May 12, Brazil’s democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa)…
