The dangers of emigrating to Europe are growing, and the military and security industry lobby are to blame.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
One Ukrainian democratic socialist’s opinion on the war
Vladyslav Starodubtsev is a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, and a member of Sotsyalnyi Rukh, a Ukrainian organization that unites the democratic left.
Posted inBrazil on Fire
Brazil on Fire Episode 5: Ghosts of the Past
Brazil’s military dictatorship was a dark time in the country’s history. Hundreds were killed. Thousands jailed and tortured. And it is an era that President Jair Bolsonaro remembers with nostalgia.
Posted inPrisons and Policing
Judge rules California prison must close
California Correctional Center in Susanville is ordered to shut down, in a win for advocates.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Vangela Wade: Environmental racism from Jackson to Flint
The water crisis in Jackson, MS, may be coming to an end, but it’s part of a larger pattern of environmental catastrophes linked to systemic racism.
Posted inClimate Crisis
Puerto Rico in ‘Total Blackout’ as Hurricane Fiona Makes Landfall
First Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017. Then the power grid was privatized in 2020. Now this.
Posted inPolice Accountability Report
Lawsuit accuses West Virginia police department of training officers to use unconstitutional tactics
A civil rights lawsuit against the police department of Milton, West Virginia, has been filed following Police Accountability Report’s coverage of the unlawful imprisonment of Caleb Dial.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
I’m a railroad worker. Don’t listen to corporations’ attempts to demonize us.
Railroad workers are the ones fighting to save what’s left of the supply chain from corporate greed. If you stand with us, we can win.
Posted inThe Chris Hedges Report
The Chris Hedges Report: The monstrous myth of Custer
Over a century since his ignominious defeat, the story of Lt. Col. Custer still plays a part in our national mythology—one that covers up our heinous crimes against Indigenous peoples.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Wall Street is holding the supply chain hostage to stop a railroad workers’ strike
A locomotive engineer and union rep explains how railroad corporations are using lockouts to pressure workers to take a bad deal.