North America

For much of my adult life, human rights have not been a subject I merely studied. It has been a matter that hit my heart and occupied my mind. I could never treat a violation as an abstraction, because behind…

by Maria Veronica “Vernie” G. Caparas Vancouver, British Columbia. In a year when the fate of a long-promised Filipino cultural centre in British Columbia has become tangled in politics, foreclosure notices, and competing proposals, the National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre…

“Every day I check my mailbox, but I have not found a letter from the Almighty confirming it.” That was Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s reply when I asked whether he considered the Zionist state “the beginning of the flowering of our…

Korean and Filipino organizations Nodutdol for Korean Community Development and BAYAN-USA mobilized hundreds of people in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other U.S. cities to demand an end to the U.S.-ROK alliance and escalation towards war in the…

Most of us can easily imagine a new car, a new house, new technology, or a radically different society. It is more difficult to imagine becoming a new kind of human being. Yet the future of our species may depend…

Immigrants have been horribly mischaracterized by shameful deceiving politicians looking for cheap political gains, an American tragedy happening right under all our noses. It’s a horrible mistake that’s destined to hurt America’s economy and Wall Street. America’s economy cannot function…

Letter back to Mark Zuckerberg, who wrote to the whole world in order to look at no one. I return to you your favorite word, that “everyone,” and with it I turn the planet around —from China to America, counterclockwise—…

Anti-war and progressive organizations are planning demonstrations in five U.S. cities on Saturday, August 15, protesting the U.S.-South Korea military exercises known as Ulchi Freedom Shield and calling for an end to what organizers describe as the continuing militarization of…

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made…

For about a year or so, my days have been becoming shorter and shorter. Last year, during a therapy session, I said that every day was turning into a Sunday. Not because of its quietness or late rising, but because…