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US: Guns Have to Go

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 354 mass shootings in the US so far in 2022, and more than 24,000 people in this country have died as a result of gun violence (mass shootings, suicides, homicides, accidents,…

Will the World Ever Know Peace?

Even though FBI data has indicated that violent crime rates in the United States declined between 1993 and 2019, violence continues to be a pressing issue in this country (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/). In fact, according to TIME magazine, 2020 was one of…

When Illness Matters: Massacre In Texas

By Dr Binoy Kampmark The massacre at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs was, to put it simply, effective and spectacular.   It also had the resonances of the primeval, ignoring the sanctity of the church in favour of murder…

Majority want assault weapons ban, so why don’t dems filibuster for that?

Outrage over government inaction on gun control has reached a fever pitch days after the Orlando shooting massacre by Lauren McCauley, staff writer for Common Dreams Outrage over government inaction on gun control has reached a fever pitch days after…