Right-wing vigilante found not guilty of murdering two anti-racist protestors
The most closely-watched murder trial in recent memory exemplifies the standard of cops and racists having a right to kill in the US Kyle Rittenhouse before shooting three men, killing two, in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2021. Photo: Twitter @StandForBetter After four days of deliberations, a jury acquitted 18-year old Kyle Rittenhouse on all […]
Biden’s watered down infrastructure plan: What’s in, what’s out and what’s next?
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which was passed by the US Congress is the largest single federally-funded investment in infrastructure in over a decade. However, many of its original proposals were abandoned and a lot hinges on its implementation Credit: White House After months of negotiations, the US House of Representatives voted to approve […]
Biden brings lip service with minimal concrete action to COP26
The scale of US policy on climate change fails to match up with its contributions to the global climate catastrophe The UN Climate Change Conference of Parties or COP26 wrapped up its first few days with over 120 heads of state participating in the World Leaders Summit. The conference began on the heels of a […]
Honduras to Elect President, Still in Shadow of U.S.-Backed Coup
The Honduran presidential election is coming up November 28, and the leftist LIBRE candidate Xiomara Castro is in the lead. But the country is still plagued by the effects of the U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2009, and elections since the coup have had wide-scale fraud. Can Castro prevail? Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch & journalist […]
US lawmakers gut critically-needed social spending bill
Facing historic inequality and worsening climate disasters, US workers are in desperate need of a greatly improved social safety net US President Joe Biden presenting the Build Back Better Agenda in July. Photo: White House On Thursday, the White House revealed a reduced version of the social program budget proposed by US President Joe […]
The Hidden Hunger in Morocco
While official statistics suggest the North African country does not suffer with hunger, the reality is a different story covered up by lack of reliable data and social stigma around hunger by The Madaar Project Hunger has a strong presence in the Moroccan imaginary as much as it exists in reality. Throughout the course of […]
Hunger stalks the United States
The Unity and Survival Program of the Philadelphia Liberation Center provided essential food support to a struggling population as the pandemic wreaked havoc. Their success demonstrates that the problem of hunger haunting the United States can be solved with the right political will By Kei Pritsker and Eugene Puryear According to the United Nations, the […]
Poverty is a Policy Choice: COVID Relief Payments Lowered Poverty Rates, Census Report Finds
A Census Bureau report released this week shows that the number of people living in poverty decreased over the course of the pandemic, thanks to aid like the stimulus checks and expanded unemployment benefits. Shailly Gupta Barnes, Policy Director at the Kairos Center and the Poor People’s Campaign, describes how new and expanded social programs […]