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By Jhon Sánchez Last September, while I had my breakfast, I listened to “The Giant Robot and The Author’s Wife,” a short story written by Adam-Troy Castro. Even though I had always been curious about his life in Florida, his…

Advocates accuse immigration officials of falsifying travel documents By Frances Madeson – The Louisiana Illuminator There is a peaceful room in a safe, joyful home in the Washington metro area waiting for Micah, an English-speaking Cameroonian refugee who spent his…

10 October 2020 (Wall Street International)* — We are watching now what may very well be the last American election. Before 2016, such words would have been unthinkable and unspeakable. The rapidity with which they have become not only possible, but…

The president has made clear that he intends to cling to power at all costs, including the U.S. Constitution and our democracy. By Sonali Kolhatkar From the very beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump was pushing every boundary, violating the…

During Marie Dutrepont’s interview by Pressenza, Marie described the process and unbearable situation in the Moria (Lesvos) concentration camp in Greece. She described day-to-day conditions in a camp designed for 2500 people but that now hosts 25,000. She spoke of…

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…

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,…