The people of Yemen have been suffering from an unprecedented famine since 2016, which is now one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. In a country of 29 million people, over 20 million suffer from food shortages and rely on humanitarian assistance. Over two...
The megadrought (defined as a drought lasting twenty years or longer) plaguing the U.S. Southwest was determined to be the driest in the region in more than 1,200 years. The high temperatures and low precipitation levels of the past two summers solidified that record...
1650-1917: Some or all of present Ukraine under control of Russian Empire. 1918-1945: Major political struggles within Ukraine over the workers’ 1917 revolution in Russia. A significant part of Ukraine joins newly formed Soviet Union. With the bureaucratization of the...
It’s impossible for working people not to feel the squeeze on their wallets as the price of practically everything from food to gas to medicine keeps rising. It feels like there is no end in sight. This is the biggest surge in inflation in 40 years, with a 7.5%...
On Tuesday, February 22, the three men who killed Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of hate crimes. This is on top of their previous convictions of other charges including malice murder. Two years ago, on February 23 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, an African American, was jogging...
