Monthly Archives: November 2019

By Kevin Stoda If I were to run as GOP “progressive” alternative for president, I would start with taking items that are already necessary and popular for most Americans, and I would be busily pushing things like the transformation of … Continue reading →

Free Stuff You Can Really Use Dozens of freebies worth paying for, but you don’t have to spend a dollar by Shelley Emling, Tamara Lytle and David Schiff, AARP, October 4, 2019 | STORY ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROB DOBI En español | For shoppers … Continue reading →

Angelina Jolie Jolie, a TIME contributing editor, is an Academy Award–winning actor and Special Envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie Interviews One of the Drafters of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Children: ‘Children Need … Continue reading →

Angelina Jolie: The Crisis We Face at the Border Does Not Require Us to Choose Between Security and Humanity Migrants, advocates and attendees take part in an event called “Clamor for those who didn’t achieve the dream” at the U.S.-Mexico … Continue reading →

Barr Announces Plan to Address Crisis of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women NOV 26, 2019 Image Credit: Twitter: @KerriKupecDOJ Attorney General William Barr announced a nationwide plan to address the crisis of missing and murdered Native American women on Friday, … Continue reading →

Google Fires Four Employees Active in Labor Organizing NOV 26, 2019 Google has fired four employees who had been active in labor organizing inside the tech giant. One of the fired workers, Rebecca Rivers, had objected to Google’s bid to … Continue reading →

3 Men Wrongfully Jailed for 36 Years Walk Free from Prison in Baltimore NOV 26, 2019 In Baltimore, three men who were wrongfully imprisoned in 1983 have walked free from prison after spending 36 years behind bars for a crime … Continue reading →

Global Protests Mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women NOV 26, 2019 Protesters around the world took to the streets Monday to protest violence against women. Crowds poured into the streets in Spain, Guatemala, Russia, Sudan, Turkey, … Continue reading →

NEWS / COLOMBIA Colombia protests: What prompted them and where are they headed? Discontent over inequality, education, Duque’s slow implementation of the 2016 peace deal has been simmering for months.by Steven Grattan MORE ON LATIN AMERICA Mexico’s has a $44bn infrastructure … Continue reading →

Leaked Documents Reveal China’s “Brainwashing” of Uyghur Muslims NOV 26, 2019 Leaked documents have shed new light on the China’s government’s network of prison camps in the far western region of Xinjiang, where as many as one million Uyghur Muslims … Continue reading →