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...
by John Feffer | Sep 9, 2020 | Redev, War & Peace
My father enlisted in the Army to fight in World War II. He was 19 or 20 years old, and he wanted to defeat the Nazis. He was one of a million other young Americans to sign up that year. But my father was also a fun-loving guy who played clarinet in a jazz band and...
by Deborah Brown | Sep 2, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
Billions of people around the world have come to rely on the services Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google provide to exercise their basic human rights. But for many people, both within and outside the U.S., the concentration of power in these companies has meant...
by Phyllis Bennis | Aug 27, 2020 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
In some ways, the U.S.-brokered plan for mutual recognition between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is big news. For more than a quarter of a century, only two Middle Eastern countries — Egypt and Jordan — had officially recognized Israel. None of the Gulf...
by Ariel Gold, Medea Benjamin | Aug 14, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
“HUGE breakthrough today,” crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The deal makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab state and the third Arab nation, after Egypt and Jordan, to have diplomatic ties...
