On Saturday, May 20, an 11-year-old Black boy became yet another victim of a police shooting. The shooting occurred in Indianola, Mississippi, after the boy, Aderrien Murry, called 911 to help out his mom. She was being threatened by an angry former boyfriend, and had...
For a long time, a growing number of Americans have believed that the political establishment in Washington, D.C. is rife with political corruption. Only rarely have the details about political corruption become public even though D.C. insiders, including the top...
Iraq is environmentally devastated. Due to years of punishing sanctions by the U.S. following the Iran-Iraq war in the 1990s and the 40 years since then of conflicts, most notably the 2003 U.S. invasion and war, the country’s people face the devastation of their...
In the worst mine accident in decades, 27 people were killed in a fire in a gold mine in southern Peru. In the province of Arequipa, a circuit breaker in a small gold mine short-circuited causing the deadly fire. This incident shows the danger faced by miners in Peru,...
For the first time since the 1980s, the U.S. has sent nuclear submarines to dock in South Korea. The goal of the U.S. in doing so is to threaten North Korea in response to that country’s continued nuclear weapons tests and belligerent statements about the U.S. The...
