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  • The Cold War, Desegregation, and Affirmative Action

    The Cold War, Desegregation, and Affirmative Action

    Desegregation – A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States – Howard University School of Law As the US Supreme Court aspires to drive a nail into the coffin of affirmative action, it is important to recognize how the Cold War helped to shape the mid-twentieth-century civil-rights people’s victories and the consequent policy […]

  • We Are in Collective Alexithymia

    We Are in Collective Alexithymia

    No words for emotions — alexithymia New psychology research shows maltreatment in childhood is linked to alexithymia in adulthood. Its etymology comes from Ancient Greek. The word is formed by combining the alpha privative prefix ἀ- (a-, meaning ‘not’) with λέξις (léxis, referring to ‘words’) and θῡμός (thȳmós, denoting ‘disposition,’ ‘feeling,’ or ‘rage’). The term can […]

  • The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands

    The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands

    Fan Wennan (China), 中国 2098: 太阳照常升起 (‘China 2098: The Sun Rises Just the Same’), 2019–2022. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), member states decided to replace the Millennium Development Goals (established in 2000) with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The first SDG was to ‘end poverty in […]

  • Charter Schools Are Quintessentially and Irreversibly Private Schools by Design

    Despite endless disinformation from charter school promoters that charter schools are public schools, they differ profoundly—legally, organizationally, fiscally, and philosophically—from public schools. They are not the same. The dissimilarities are numerous by design. Calling them “public” 50 times a day does not spontaneously make charter schools public. Nor does receiving public funds automatically make charter […]

  • Global Capitalism: Anti-Democratic Politics and Existential Crisis

    Though it is not often examined in these terms, the popular disaffection of Americans with government in general and the rise of anti-democratic politics around the world are seemingly predictable reactions to the contemporary global crises in the international capitalist economy. Persistent poverty, pandemics, military conflict, economic displacement, climate catastrophes, migration, widespread corruption and social […]

  • Suppressed NATO Study Finds U.S. Ranks Low on Democracy

    Suppressed NATO Study Finds U.S. Ranks Low on Democracy

    NATO and its supporters and member-nations are hiding the fact that the predominant belief in many of these nations is actually that they’re dictatorships that merely pontificate ‘democracy’ to other nations as an excuse to defeat their targeted-for-conquest nations which they call ‘autocracies’ or etc. in order to fool the public to ‘justify’ the military-industrial […]

  • Charter Schools Are Not State Actors

    Eleven months ago a critical education case came before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in North Carolina (Peltier v. Charter Day Sch., Inc., 37 F.4th 104, 116, 4th Cir. 2022). A main issue in the case pertains to the dress code at “Charter Day School” in Leland, North Carolina, specifically, whether the privately-operated […]

  • The Work That Tricontinental Does

    The Work That Tricontinental Does

    I am grateful to you for reading this newsletter, which has been coming to you since March 2018 and which now – thanks to the efforts of our movements – reaches over a million people. Our first newsletter posed a problem that remains at the heart of our institute’s work: The Left has before us […]

  • A Glimpse into Homelessness

    A Glimpse into Homelessness

    “The estimated number of homeless people in Canada ranges from 150,000 to 300,000, and the figure has been rising.” — Homelessness Statistics in Canada, 4 February 2023, Statscan The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counted around 582,000 Americans experiencing homelessness in 2022.

  • Poverty and Crisis: Sucking Humanity Dry

    The World Bank says nearly 80% (560 million) of the 700 million people who were pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 due to COVID policies were from India. Globally, extreme poverty levels increased by 9.3 per cent in 2020.  In 2022, it was estimated that a quarter of a billion people across the world would be […]

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