By : Ziad Abu-Rish and Maya Mikdashi [The COVID-19 crisis arrived in Lebanon on the heels of widespread protests that commenced in late 2019 against the country’s political system and elites. Lebanon today is beset by […]
By : Ziad Abu-Rish زياد ابوالريش Port of Beirut and surrounding area, 2007. Photo by Yoniw via Wikimedia Commons The nature of Tuesday’s explosion in the port of Beirut and the extent of the damage across […]
by BRIAN KELLY Mural of Frederick Douglass, Falls Road, Belfast. Irish people’s history has embraced both a legacy of identification with the oppressed, and in propagation of the Irish Slaves Myths, elements of racism. Photograph byRoss […]
by TALLI NAUMAN Image Source: Chipermc – CC BY-SA 4.0 Heat on the U.S. Presidential election campaign thermometer reached new highs during the dog days of summer 2020, with the final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar […]
by HOWIE HAWKINS – MADELYN HOFFMAN Image Source: Large stockpile with global range (dark blue), smaller stockpile with global range (medium blue), small stockpile with regional range (light blue) – Public Domain August 6 is the […]
by ROBERT JACOBS – RAN ZWIGENBERG A photograph of Hiroshima seen from a US airplane after the attack, autographed by Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets. In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan […]
by H. BRUCE FRANKLIN Photograph Source: View of the IG Farben Building from the Main Tower byEvaK – CC BY 2.5 Come you masters of warYou that build the big gunsYou that build the death planesYou that […]
BY: Dean Baker, Truthout (Image: CDC Global, checking blinds via Shutterstock)Thus far, the Ebola virus has infected three people in the United States that we know of, however Ebola hysteria seems to have infected somewhere close to 300 million. […]
BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett talks about the spread of coronavirus and why it is more dangerous than anything the world has seen since the arrival of HIV. TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy […]
BY: Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 As global fears around the coronavirus outbreak intensify, the United States and many other countries have opted for wholesale travel bans of Chinese nationals as well […]