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How the Zuni Tribe are strengthening communities through culture and sacred spaces. By Michael J. Dax 19 August 2016 for openDemocracy “Do you know the secret of the kachinas?” It was a whispered question, between two young girls—one Zuni, one…

Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.* When the time arrives for national elections in the United States, most of the candidates campaign on the slogan: making America great again. However, not one political figure brings into the open the real source of the…

‘Unacceptable’ wealth inequality keeps growing in the U.S., with the top 10 percent of families owning three-quarters of total wealth by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams Yet another report, this one from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…

Human Wrongs Watch By Lyndal Rowlands* UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 2016 (IPS) – Judging by the latest polls it now seems more likely that the United States will have a female President in 2016, than the United Nations will have…

In Pennsylvania, immigrant mothers detained with their children at the Berks County Residential Center have entered their second week of a hunger strike. They are protesting the government’s claims that the average time in detention is only 20 days. By…

Danny Katch and Mehran Mehrdad Ali report from New York City on the grief and anger in Ozone Park following the killing of the beloved leader of a local mosque. On Saturday afternoon, Maulama Akonjee, imam of the Al Furqan…

What’s that smell coming from the Clinton campaign’s ever-expanding “big tent”? Danny Katch investigates and finds some foul-smelling Republican elephants inside. BERNIE SANDERS wrote in an op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times last week that his “political revolution…continues as…

In the context of the World Social Forum 2016, taking place this time in Montreal, Canada, a conference on the importance of free software was held at McGill University on August 11. On this occasion, two speakers discussed of the…

I recall from my early teens, the “Judgment at Nuremberg” movie, which made a big impression then about “justice” and the “rightness and virtue” of the Allied cause.  But when I watched the movie on TV, years later, it was…

Donald Trump is giving new meaning to “bully pulpit,” ratcheting his irrational campaign rhetoric to new and dangerous lows. In North Carolina Tuesday, he said: “Hillary wants to abolish—essentially, abolish—the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to…