by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | Oct 28, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power....
by John Feffer | Oct 21, 2020 | Environment, Health, Redev
If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time. It has done just about everything wrong, from the failure to contain the virus early on to the lack of effective coordination thereafter. As...
by John Feffer | Sep 29, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
The white mobs didn’t care whom they killed as long as the victims were Black. They murdered people in public with guns and rocks. They set fire to houses and slaughtered families trying to escape the flames. In East St. Louis in July 1917, white vigilantes lynched...
by David Vine | Sep 23, 2020 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Over the last week, considerable debate arose around a calculation I helped produce showing that the wars the U.S. government has fought since the attacks of September 11, 2001, have forced at least 37 million people — and perhaps as many as 59 million — to flee their...
by Conn Hallinan | Sep 10, 2020 | Energy, Environment, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD), a mysterious plague spread out of the Nile Valley to Constantinople and finished off the Roman Empire. Appearing first in China and North India, the “Black Death” (Yersinia pestis) radiated throughout the...
