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Despite dire conditions, U.S. deports Haitians

By G. Dunkel   An Aug. 14 earthquake completely devastated southwestern Haiti, the country’s breadbasket. At least 2,200 people were killed, and tens of thousands of homes destroyed, along...

Are We Building Our Own Prison Thinking We Own the Key to Our Cell?

Like frogs in water that keeps getting hotter and hotter, we are nearing the boiling point.   A plague of “vaccine mandates” and “vaccine passports”...

Arundhati Roy on America’s Fiery, Brutal Impotence

The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse, says the novelist and essayist. For reasons of narrative...

Tokyo Olympics: athletes resist, forge solidarity

By Minnie Bruce Pratt Black-gloved fists raised in a Black power salute, heads bowed on the podium, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos honored the...

Defining Refugees in the Era of Climate Displacement

27 Jul 2021 – July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This historic document, signed by 149 nation-states, defines refugees...

IT IS NOT ZUMA AND LAZINESS, IT IS POVERTY AND INEQUALITY!

In South Africa this week has been faced with the demonstrations which associated with looting and vandalization of shopping malls and other facilities in...

Haiti Revolution, sparks for freedom

by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, the...

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