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This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Four weeks after the fires destroyed Moria Reception and Identification Centre…

More than 30 years after ACT UP was founded, their bold activism in response to the AIDS crisis offers critical lessons for those mobilizing around COVID-19. Loretta Graceffo During the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, Avram Finklestein…

By Mark Lesseraux Isn’t it ironic that over the last 40 years no American has received more (financial) government assistance than Donald Trump? Which begs the question: If our socio-economic system has “evolved” in such a way that it has…

Face 2 Face is going  LIVE on Thursday, October 8th at 4 PM EST On this show we speak with Catherine Murphy about her new documentary “Silvio Rodríguez. Mi primer tarea” telling the story of the troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, about…

by Diego Gonzaga It is no accident that there are fires all across Brazil, and it is no accident that the fires this year are worse than last. In fact, the fires in 2020 are the worst in the last decade.…

People around the globe have been watching the build up to the US election with disbelief. Particularly confusing to many is the furore over postal ballots, which the US president, Donald Trump is insisting will lead to large-scale voter fraud…

The New York Times loves the latest war-is-good-for-you book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan. The book fits into the growing and exclusively U.S. genre that includes Ian Morris’s War: What Is It Good For? Conflict and Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots (Morris…

By Vijay Prashad and John Ross U.S. President Donald Trump—supported by most of the U.S. establishment—deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy. The “trade war” seemed to play well with Trump’s political base, who somehow hoped that an…

As Japanese Americans whose community was targeted by unjust mass incarceration and separation of families by the U.S. government during WWII, we are appalled by the blatant, ruthless lack of humanity exhibited by those responsible for the family separation policy,…

The court convicted the whole party and organization of Golden Dawn.  Thousands of people gathered this morning outside the Court of Athens waiting for the announcement of the decision for the Golden Dawn trial. Schools, unions, organizations, political parties, anti-fascists…