Events
Month: August 2021
Around the world
Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated
Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit to the Japanese city revived the question of whether killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima […]
Cuba
The good people who will give internet to Cuba
GitHub, the largest free software platform in the world, has published an incomplete list of 60 computer programs, sites and services restricted for Cuba by the unreasonable U.S. blockade, which according to Senator Marco Rubio […]
LGBTQ+
Olympics without the closet
From Juventud Rebelde. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews. New generations are born with a willingness to excel admirably, and it is good that the fire of Olympus burns, without discriminating, in all […]
In the U.S.
Remembering the great scientific crusader who showed that no biological basis for race exists — Richard Lewontin
On July 4, Richard Lewontin, the dialectical biologist, Marxist and activist, died at the age of 92, just three days after the death of his wife of more than 70 years, Mary Jane. He was […]
Environment
Extreme weather events and capitalism: a deadly combination
Climate scientists around the world are alarmed by a triple climate-change-related crisis that hit the western U.S. and Canada in June and July. Normally climatologists are careful in their assessment of extreme weather events, under […]
Cuba
If the U.S. really cared about freedom in Cuba, it would end its punishing sanctions
The violent protests that erupted in Cuba in early July were the first serious social disturbances since the “Maleconazo” of 1994, 27 years ago. Both these periods were characterized by deep economic crises. I was […]
Indigenous peoples
The ‘Land Back’ Campaign: Oklahoma is only a start
Last year the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision that affected 40% of Oklahoma. The court decided to uphold a 19th century treaty made with five Indigenous tribes of Oklahoma: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee and […]
Events
Baltimore: Unemployment Crisis Town Hall Part 2, August 7
Urgent! Your Voice Is Needed at Thursday’s Town Hall Assembly Come out & speak out at the Workers Assembly on Maryland’s Unemployment Benefits Crisis When: Thursday, August 7, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Where: War […]
In the U.S.
Save our homes — by any means necessary
Eleven million families face being thrown out of their homes. That’s because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ban on evictions and foreclosures expired July 31. So at least 30 million people have no […]