The Venezuelan Government is taking concrete steps to combat a rise of criminal activity and insecurity in the country by also addressing the root cause of violence: Poverty The New York Times mistakenly headlined last week that violence in Venezuela is worse than Iraq. The sensationalist and distorted article, authored... » read this article

Poet Sunni Patterson is one of New Orleans' most beloved artists. She has performed in nearly every venue in the city, toured the US, and frequently appears on television and radio, from Democracy Now to Def Poetry Jam. When she performs her poems in local venues, half the crowd recites the... » read this article

Preliminary Census data is now coming out showing the effects of the recession on a macro scale.  The 2008 Census figures don’t highlight the deep capital loss that was experienced by middle class families over the last two years.  We now have data showing how deep the recession has gotten. ... » read this article

Thousands of unemployed workers attended a job fair August 25 in Southfield, Michigan that was sponsored by employmentguide.com, a job search web site, and the American Association for Retired People (AARP). The event, billed as an “over 50” job fair, attracted a wide cross-section of people, testifying to the depth... » read this article

Honk If You Love Caviar. How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Chelsea Clinton's wedding, 15K just to rent the air-conditioned shitters -- huge chrome and glass babies with hot water and everything. No gas masks and waxy little squares of toilet paper for those guys. Yes,... » read this article

The following article is based on a report “The tragedy of Noma1”, prepared by Mr. Jean Ziegler, Vice-President of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. Unless otherwise noted, the quotes in this article are  excerpted from this report by Mr. Ziegler. Malnutrition and hunger are not only direct killers of... » read this article

Brazil and the United States may have settled, for now, their long-running WTO dispute over U.S. cotton subsidies, but the issues it raised remain. After all, Brazilian producers were not the only ones hurt by U.S. dumping of its highly subsidized cotton on world markets, which not only took market... » read this article

One-hundred-and-fifty years after the abolition of slavery, the State Department has acknowledged that people in the United States continue to be bought and sold as property. The department’s 2010 “Trafficking in Persons” (TIP) report, a global review of human trafficking and civic and legal responses to it, lists the United... » read this article

By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out that the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the... » read this article

Ebocha, Nigeria — Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the only threat Justice faces. Almost since... » read this article

This interview by Agnès Rousseaux and Alexandro Rosinhawas was published by the French information web site BASTA! [2] on January 27, 2009. It is based on Jean Ziegler’s latest book “Hatred of the West” (La Haine de l’Occident - Albin Michel, October, 2008) Jean Ziegler [1], one of the leading... » read this article

A new book, “Just Give Money to the Poor,” says the poor will spend the cash wisely and boost the economy, too. Who’s responsible for the poor? Back in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth, English lawmakers said it was the government and taxpayers. They introduced the compulsory “poor... » read this article

5 July 2010 Sunday, July 4 marked the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This founding document of the American republic proclaimed the profoundly democratic principle that “all men are created equal” and endowed with “inalienable rights.” It was issued in 1776, one year into a bitter armed struggle against... » read this article

Introduction: Back in January, while hundreds of thousands of Haitians laid injured -- crushed -- the country's president and first lady cried about the collapse of their national palace and urgently called for engineers.  Days later, while children were being snatched by the planeloads from the country in disarray, the... » read this article

Editor's Note: Ann Coffey (Ottawa, Canada) sends this report to us on "Vertical Farming". Although city farming on this scale may seem futuristic, the growing need for it today becomes more and more obvious. Moreover, the concept of city gardens is not a new one at all. City gardens is... » read this article

In the pre-dawn hours of January 13, a phone call awakened Dr. Jonas Rigodon and his wife at their home in Neno, Malawi. The news was bad. A massive earthquake had just hit their native Haiti. Shocked and worried, Jonas and other Haitian physicians at PIH sites in Africa--which include... » read this article

4 May 2010 The state of Arizona’s enactment last month of a law targeting immigrants for police persecution has reignited a debate within the media and establishment political circles over the status of over 12 million undocumented workers living in the United States. Much of this debate has centered on... » read this article

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Even before World War II ended, thought was being given to how the world could, or should, be shaped in its aftermath. As early as 1942, economist John Maynard Keynes was proposing what he called the International Trade Organization (ITO) which would be supported by a central bank of central... » read this article

Editor's Note: Andrew Gavin Marshall's* extraordinary Three Part Series on the current global economic, political and social crisis is worthy of careful reading and study. His scholarly approach to understanding and biting critique of the global corporate empire serves as a reference for our everyday experience as the world spins... » read this article