Tax season is upon on, reminding us of how undemocratic the capitalist system is. We get no say on how our money is collected and spent. While most of us living paycheck to paycheck have to pay taxes, major corporations and the rich have enormous loopholes to avoid...
The Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s -1970s was one of the most significant social movements in U.S. history. It involved millions of people. It was a grassroots movement often organized locally. It involved elementary school children in Selma, Alabama and the...
It was 25 years ago today, on February 4, 1999, that police officers in the Bronx, New York, shot a young man, killing him instantly. That young man was Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old who had immigrated to the United States from Guinea only two years earlier. He was a...
Last Thursday, the state government of Alabama conducted the first ever execution of a human being using nitrogen gas. The man executed was 58-year-old Kenneth Smith, who was twice convicted of the brutal stabbing of Elizabeth Sennett in 1988. His accomplice in the...
NOTE: Farmers across Europe have this week protested against their unbearable economic conditions, from France where the biggest protests have seen farmers use their tractors to block roads around Paris, to Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, and Romania. Here is...
