Paul Robeson, Artist as Revolutionary
Notes on Sharon Rudahl’s superlative biography of Paul Robeson.
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Clare Grady at 100 Seconds To Midnight
Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s murder, seven white, aging Catholic peace activists cut a fence and enter Georgia’s Kings Bay Naval Base, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world.
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36th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Leak Tragedy: State Continues to Fail Victims
Statement by the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghthan (BGPMUS) and Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS) highlighting the struggle for justice which the gas victims have been relentlessly waging for the past 35 years.
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The Pillage of Resources: A Glimpse into the Lives and Labor of Marginalized Women
Lives of women dependent on natural resources, such as land, forests, rivers, and mountains, are being tossed asunder by the appropriation and expropriation of these resources by corporations and the state.
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The Supreme Court Sets at Naught the Solemn Guarantee of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
In the case of the journalist Siddique Kappan, the Supreme Court abnegates its own responsibility by treating the writ jurisdiction of the High Courts as an acceptable alternative in disposing of habeas corpus petitions.
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How Laws in Pakistan and India Discriminate Against Women from Minority Communities
The Indian and Pakistani constitutions provide equality for all, yet the rights of citizens from different religious groups in matters such as marriage, divorce, maintenance and succession, depend on religious identity.
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COVID19 | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Why COVID-19 Granted the U.S. Most Favored Nation Status
Because the ‘Greatest Country in the World’ is so damn savagely capitalist, imperialist-militarist, unequal, plutocratic, and racist.
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While Billionaire Wealth Soars, Millions Being Pushed into Poverty: Six Short Articles
During the pandemic that has taken everything from millions, top 1% households continue to gain wealth – in the USA alone, billionaires have collectively gained over $1 trillion. Also: “Landmark Study Shows $427 Billion Lost Each Year to Tax Dodging by Corporations and the Rich”.
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Pentagon to Biden: Latin America a Major Battlefield in War with China
The Pentagon has already submitted briefs to the incoming Biden administration arguing that Washington must escalate its drive to assert imperialist hegemony over the lands to its south as part of its preparations for a global confrontation with China.
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US Bankrolled Mass Murder of Millions in Central Africa to Defend US Corporate Interests
U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA in the Congo to do the dirty work of greedy corporations, causing misery, mutilations and massacres of such magnitude they dwarfed even the wildest accounts depicted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
