Their Backtracking Puts Organizers at Risk Commentary by Derecka Purnell The north may not remember, but 9 August this year marked the 12th anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown Jr in Ferguson, Missouri….
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By Roxanne D. Brown Missouri’s Republican lawmakers did exactly what their corporate patrons demanded in 2017 and rammed through legislation intended to prevent working people from banding together to fight for better lives. This gift…
Preparing for Possible Military Intervention By Alan Macleod The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president,…
By Hedelberto López Blanch On August 7, a shadowy figure who has been implicated in various drug trafficking and money laundering scandals took office as president of Colombia, but because he is a friend of…
By Logan McMillen The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil. Now it’s attempting to starve the Cuban people, targeting the country’s capacity to grow, process, and import food — unless it…
Commentary Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British academic,…
By Al Mayadeen English This article is adapted from an article by William Christou published in The Guardian, August 12, 2026. Firefighters and residents in south Lebanon have accused the Israeli occupation forces of deliberately…
Conditions at Arkansas prison and former plantation By Victoria Valenzuela Prisons often frame agricultural labor as “rehabilitation,” but incarcerated people say their working conditions are dangerous and dehumanizing. AT spent nearly every day for five…
The Real Budget is Far Larger Than Reported By Gisela Cernadas, David Vine, and John Bellamy Foster U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for the fiscal year 2027, which would…
By F. Douglas Stephenson Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Sixty one years ago, July 30, 1965, Congress enacted Medicare to provide health insurance for people ages 65 and older and the disabled regardless…