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...
A few days ago it was announced that the Pentagon made an error when calculating its total funding for aid to Ukraine, a country still locked in its struggle against the brutal Russian invasion and occupation. Pentagon accountants apparently overvalued some of the...
The Trump-era border restrictions known as Title 42 expired on Thursday, May 18. These are the policies that, in the name of limiting the COVID pandemic, turned away asylum-seekers and forced thousands of people to wait in Mexico in dangerous situations. Trump’s...
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...
