Political Economy

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Obama Militarily Occupied Africa
26 Nov 2018
“In the 8 years that Barack Obama was president, “AFRICOM went from 3 military bases to 84 bases” on the continent, said Paul Pumphrey, co-founder of Friends of Congo, speaking at
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Prison Officials Encourage Recidivism
19 Nov 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner says prison officials don’t want to break the cycle of recidivism that sends former inmates back to confinement.
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Liberation Theology is a Force in Islam
19 Nov 2018
Throughout the Muslim world, the poor struggle against entrenched elites over the nature of a just society,” said Shadaab Rahemtulla, a professor at the University of Jordan and au
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New Yorkers Can’t Trust Amazon
19 Nov 2018
Amazon, the world’s biggest company, “is not a trustworthy corporation,” said Maritza Silvs-Farrell, of Align, an alliance of labor and community groups that opposes awarding Amazo
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Dr. Gerald Horne: “New McCarthyism” Targets China-Invested Firms
19 Nov 2018
One result of the “mania of bipartisanship” that followed the midterm elections -- “Democrats and Republicans joining hands” -- is a campaign to target China, said prolific author and educator
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Pan Africanists Lead “Be Clean” Campaign in Sierra Leone
13 Nov 2018
The Black Star Action Network International, founded in Tampa, Florida, is leading a “Be Clean” community sanitation and hygiene” campaign in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the Pan Africanist organi
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Brazilian Fascist Is Grave Danger to Blacks
13 Nov 2018
Policing killings in Black areas “will continue on a much wider scale” when president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, widely viewed as a fascist and racist, takes office on the first of the year, said
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Hip Hop Forges Black and Native American Solidarity
13 Nov 2018
Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share
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Police Reform Doesn’t Work, Says Sociologist
13 Nov 2018
“Show me the American city where Black and brown folks are happy with the policing that emerges from” the usual menu of police re-training, body cameras and increased minority hiring.
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White Supremacists Wage Race War
06 Nov 2018
The armed White Power movement has shifted, since the Vietnam War era, from “earlier incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan to a much more coordinated war against the federal government” and Black and Je