Vijay Prashad puts the latest coup in the gold-rich country, where the people are once again eager for a break from the colonial past, into historical context.
Why Police Unions Are Not Part of the American Labor Movement
Paul F. Clark says the strain between law enforcement and labor goes back to the origins of trade unions in the mid-19th century.
US Military Robots on Fast Track to Leadership Role
The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers’ Life Expectancy
COVID-19: Latin American Women are Disappearing & Dying Under Lockdown
It’s a pandemic within the pandemic, writes Lynn Marie Stephen.
Suffragists Used Hunger Strikes as Powerful Tool of Resistance
On the 100th anniversary today of the 19th Amendment, Victoria W. Wolcott recalls the militant women who elevated a protest tactic still in wide use today.
LEE CAMP: We Gawk at Nonsense Political Theater While the Real Enemies Go Unnoticed
Looking beyond the distractions, one can see what really matters, like detecting cancer.
Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works
Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable find the institutions of power unite to crucify them.
Throw Out ‘Rule Brittania’ & Empty the Dustbin
John Wight says Britain’s historical songs and national anthem bear false witness to history, with ongoing diabolical consequences.
WATCH: On the History of US-Backed Coups—Consortium News Editor Speaks to George Galloway
UPRISING: Protests Break Out in Wisconsin After Police Shoot Black Man in the Back Multiple Times at Point-Blank Range
COVID-19: Will Public Schools Survive a Reopening?
WATCH: WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: What It Means for Press Freedom
An Attack on Edward Said’s Legacy
RAY McGOVERN: Catapulting Russian-Meddling Propaganda
Oligarchic Dozen: Wealth of These 12 Tops $1 Trillion
Protecting Food From the Hungry
Warnings of Scheme to ‘Kill Postal Banking’ With ATMs in Post Offices
The plan, revealed in an internal USPS document, is getting slammed as yet another Wall Street power-grab.
QAnon Is a Fake, Decoy Imitation of a Healthy Revolutionary Impulse
Caitlin Johnstone calls QAnon a propaganda construct designed to manufacture support for the status quo among people who otherwise would not support it.