A Private Investigator on Living in a Surveillance Culture
Can we be forgotten anymore?
Why the Alt Right May Gain Momentum in 2018
One year after the deadly fascist-led rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the U.S. Alt Right is stumbling to regain its footing. Only a small number of White Nationalists came to Washington, DC rally for a rally on the one-year anniversary. While this doesn’t represent the movement’s strength, the public backlash against the Alt Right has significantly damaged it, and it has been unable to regain its former position. However, the more moderate wing of the movement, the so-called “Alt Lite,” is in far better shape—both in its political orientation and strength in the street.
A Message from the US-Mexico Border: Now is the Time to Stand Up for Human Rights
The portrayal and labeling of immigrants as criminals is part of the reason we rip children from their parents’ arms, the reason we starve individuals, and why we dress them up like criminals and put them in prisons, the reason we make them camp for two weeks outside of entry points before potentially initiating the asylum process. This is all public information, and the Trump administration is proud of it.
Becoming Serfs: The Record-Breaking Income Inequality in the US
The richest 1 percent of the world’s population controls 40 percent of the world’s wealth. And it is getting worse.
Cyprus: Uniting Toward a Non-Territorial Confederation?
Cyprus has been divided between Greek and Turkish Cypriots since 1974, with Turkish Cypriots in the north and Greek Cypriots in the south with a U.N. monitored buffer zone separating the two. There is general agreement that Cyprus should be one state and not two, that this one state would be federal in nature, and would be part of the European Union. But the devil is in the details.
US bombs are killing children in Yemen. Does anybody care?
The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions.