Author: Stephen Millies

  Forty-one years ago the people of Zimbabwe won independence on April 18, 1980. Thousands of Africans died for it. For decades Zimbabwe’s people fought for freedom. As a young man, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa […]

Whenever the cops kill somebody, you can count on two things: 1) Fox News and other Trump supporters will smear the victim, and 2) the TV networks and newspapers will focus on “looting,” almost drowning […]

Millones de personas en Texas perdieron la calefacción, las luces y el agua hace dos meses durante una tormenta de invierno.  Las empresas de servicios públicos del estado, ávidas de ganancias, no querían gastar dinero […]

Millions of people in Texas lost their heat, lights and water two months ago during a winter storm. The state’s profit-hungry utilities didn’t want to spend money winterizing natural gas pumps and other equipment. Over […]

  “Is COVID-19 as Deadly as They Say?” was a headline in the Wall Street Journal on March 25, 2020. One year later, over 2.8 million people around the world have died of the coronavirus. […]

People gathered outside the office of Queens County District Attorney Melinda Katz on April 2 to demand justice for Manuel Mayí. The 18-year old Dominican man, known as Manny, was murdered 30 years before on […]

There’s nothing new about the attack on voting rights in Georgia. In 1868, the racists in the state legislature declared its Black elected members to be ineligible. (“Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. Du Bois.) […]