Dr. Lawrence Wittner decries the increased military spending of the major military powers, including America--during the COVID-19 crisis.
Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers...
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The United States House of Representatives passed the Young African Leaders Initiative Act of 2021, H.R. 965, authored by Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), (above) Chair of...
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Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) introduced the Affordable Housing Preservation Act. The legislation will fund the creation of community-...
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Over the past four years, white supremacist violence has spread across the United States at an alarming rate, emerging as a top national security threat that must be confronted...
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The NAACP, the Civil Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Friday began calling on cities around...
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, alongside U.S. Representatives Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y...
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The Center for Policy Analysis and Research (CPAR) at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) today released the second issue of a multidisciplinary journal...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act, a bill to institute a nationwide cancellation of rents and home mortgage payments through the...
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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar released the following statement on her support for the American Rescue Plan.
“The American Rescue Plan is a...
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The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is on the verge of passage, as the U.S. Senate approved it on March 6. The House of Representatives is preparing for a...
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Despite all of the efforts over many weeks by the Trumpist Republicans to paint the just-passed American Rescue Plan Act as just more “liberal pet projects,” they’ve failed...
This week Polina Vasiliev and I spoke to Mickey Huff, Diablo Valley College history and media studies professor, Director of Project Censored, and host of Pacifica Radio’s Project Censored Show,...
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America’s billionaires would owe a total of about $114 billion in wealth tax for 2020 if the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act introduced...
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The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States faces an increasingly ruthless Chinese leadership, requiring that US...
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