BYJohn Knefel, Truthout On June 20, 2020, World Refugee Day, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden made his most sweeping statement to date on how his administration would differ from his predecessor’s on the rights of migrants. Gone would be […]
BYMaha Hilal, Truthout “There is no them, there is only us,” says filmmaker Alex Gibney reflecting on the story of Abu Zubaydah, a torture victim and Guantánamo prisoner who is the focus of his HBO documentary, The Forever Prisoner. […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Cover art for the White Malice by Susan Williams For those who believe Africa was decolonized decades ago, it’s time to wake up from dream-world. True, colonial European powers no longer impose direct […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: United States Library of Congress – Public Domain The surveillance activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Portland and other American cities earlier this year is reminiscent of FBI-CIA-NSA efforts […]
BY JEFFERSON MORLEY When Oliver Stone first ambles through Dealey Plaza in Dallas in the opening frames his new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, I couldn’t help but think the man is a soldier. Rumpled, restless, […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR The iconic American coffee chain, Starbucks, employs hundreds of thousands of people in nearly 9,000 cafés nationwide. And yet, the news that a handful of Starbucks employees at one café in Buffalo, New York, recently […]
It is hugely significant that even one café out of thousands in the iconic Starbucks coffee chain has beaten back the company’s union-busting tactics to choose collective power in the workplace. By Sonali Kolhatkar The […]
“Why is there more money for the military-industrial complex… at the same time the U.S. is refusing to spend the $25 billion needed to make enough additional vaccines to vaccinate the world?” BRETT WILKINS Sharply […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The American Muslim organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) extended its holiday greetings to the Palestinian Christian community in Palestine. In a video released on Christmas eve, AMP highlighted some of the […]
BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Icy Bay, Alaska. A century ago, the water of this bay was covered by ice. NASA. It does not look likely the Biden administration will act in time to forestall the predicted punishing […]