Army sends infant to foster care, mom to Afghanistan
Call Congresswoman Barbara Lee to stop her deployment by Dahr Jamail Ventura, Calif. (IPS) – U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court martial...
View ArticleRadioactive spill in Arlit, Niger, home to ‘significant quantities of uranium...
by Ann Garrison Arlit, Niger, in the Sahara Desert surfaced in international news in January 2003, when George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, said what came to be known as “the 16 words”...
View ArticleCall for prisoners in solitary nationwide to strike in solidarity with...
by Jeremy Pinson Jeremy Pinson is a federal prisoner in the Florence, Colo., Ad-Max (Administrative Maximum), known as the Guantanamo of the Rockies, said to be even more restrictive than the Pelican...
View ArticleReport from China: ‘Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012’
by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China The State Department of the United States recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012, posing as...
View ArticleStars and Bars and Stripes: Are you ready for this conversation on race?
by Cynthia McKinney The conversation has been joined. Let’s carry it all the way until we can finish it, now, too. Are we ready, finally, to have the conversation on race that President Bill Clinton...
View ArticleUntil we win: Black labor and liberation in the disposable era
by Kali Akuno Since the rebellion in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, Black people throughout the United States have been grappling with a number of critical questions, such as why are Black people...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn wants to lay the white man’s burden down
by Ann Garrison Jeremy Corbyn – Photo: Peter Nicholls, Reuters I did a Google search for “Jeremy Corbyn” and “Rwanda” on the unlikely chance that Britain’s Labor Party leader had ever said anything...
View ArticleDisentangling US team sports and US militarism
Colin Kaepernick, Eli Harold and Eric Reid take a knee on Oct. 6, 2016. – Photo: USA Today Sports by Ann Garrison Will the current sports activism around racial justice extend to the global,...
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