Having a roof over one’s head is a fundamental human right. The 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration on Human Rights, supplemented by subsequent international conventions, recognizes the right to “adequate food, clothing and housing.” Member countries are supposed to uphold the charter. Yet even in developed capitalist countries like the U.S., . . .
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The death of groundbreaking and history-making Black journalist Glen Ford was announced July 28 by his co-editor at Black Agenda Report, Margaret Kimberley. Ford was 71. In a Truthout tribute, Kimberley said: “He was the consummate journalist, a man who demanded rigorous analysis of himself and others, and he lived . . .
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Las fuerzas anticomunistas -dirigidas por el gobierno de Estados Unidos- están montando un ataque sin cuartel contra la Cuba revolucionaria. Ese país sigue avanzando con determinación en su propio camino hacia el socialismo, iniciado el 1 de enero de 1959, cuando las fuerzas dirigidas por Fidel Castro y Ernesto “Ché” . . .
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An incarcerated person must be very sick before the prison administration will allow them to go to an outside hospital. Such was the case for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who contracted COVID-19 as a result of his incarceration in a Pennsylvania prison. Mumia also suffers from congestive heart failure, a . . .
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Lima, Peru This article is from the Argentine magazine Crisis, revistacrisis.com.ar; translation by John Catalinotto July 27 – “Enjoy your risotto, it will be the last one you eat for a long time,” says one man to another in a restaurant in Miraflores, facing the Pacific Ocean. They’re surrounded by . . .
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