By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) Guests : Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney, activist, founder of the Racial Justice Network and former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP. After more than a week of nationwide protests, all four Minneapolis…
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute There is no need to wonder why George Floyd (age 46) was murdered in broad daylight in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020. The script of his death is written deep in the ugly drama of U.S. history.
By Hall Gardner* – The National Interest China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, have hoped to counter U.S. military pressures and economic sanctions in an effort to overstretch U.S. political-military and financial capabilities across the world through both symmetrical and…
Dr.Riccardo Petrella* Making free the world from the three empires of which the United States is the symbol and the most accomplished reality. Today’s societies are experiencing a phase of crumbling values and rules in all fields, dominated by warrior oligarchic structures…
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells* – The New Yorker I lived in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests in April, 2015. My apartment was in a brownstone next to a small park in a pretty neighborhood called Bolton Hill, which sits on the border between downtown and the West Baltimore…
By Gregg Gonsalves* – The Nation Just because President Trump will do nothing doesn’t mean we won’t keep asking What’s going on in the United States? Across the country, all states have begun to reopen, some more quickly, some more slowly than others.
By Democracy Now! Guests : Michael Baker, professor of public health at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand.
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color. When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Americans dutifully stayed at home…
Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson (*) – ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA Imagine, it is the year 2050 and we are looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three decades. Extrapolating from recent events, we offer the following scenario for…
Hannah Friedman* -Newsweek Americans Want the Right to Be Safe Across the country, we’ve been bombarded with pictures and videos of extremists storming state capitols, cradling guns and badgering the rest of us about their idea of “freedom.” They claim to speak for all…
