While the wealth gap between black and white U.S. households shrank from 2007 to 2010, it grew over the next three years to the widest it’s been in 30 years

Media Fantasies about Obama’s Gesture Towards Cuba

Washington and its acolytes like to pretend that they have been “isolating” Cuba, as Obama intoned, but the record shows clearly that it is the US that is being isolated

Nowhere in any of this is a sense of what has happened to the economy with its great gaps and disparities, or the findings that New York is the most divided city in the world

These are two suffering families out of millions of farmers whose lives are getting increasingly desperate by the day

Racism began to be developed as an ideology to counter solidarity between Blacks and Whites and to counter poor White settlers who left the colonies to live among Indigenous peoples

Things will not always stay the same, and old patterns do not have to be repeated. If social movements remain brave and unpredictable, they can move mountains

The problem is not just that we’re paving the planet rather than saving lives. And it’s not just that paving one’s way out of traffic predictably generates more traffic. It’s also that we’re destroying the planet’s climate in the process

America has made such a banality out of hypocrisy that there is no longer any irony: only naïveté for having expected something different

Expelled from all other public spaces by the region’s criminalization of the poor, they have now been pushed into more remote, dangerous, and unsanitary jungles