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21 Nov 2015

More than 500,000 homeless in the US

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Kate Randall More than a half million people were homeless in the United States this year, nearly a quarter of them children, according...
19 Nov 2015

Young people in UK hit hardest by austerity

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Thomas Scripps People under 34 in Britain currently face the worst life prospects in generations. “Is Britain Fairer?”—published this O...

Japan enters “technical recession”

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Nick Beams The Japanese economy has entered a technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The contract...

The state of emergency and the collapse of French democracy

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Alex Lantier The measures being taken by the government of President François Hollande in response to Friday’s terrorist attacks in Par...
17 Nov 2015

New genetic data show “Back to Africa” migration in Neolithic times

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Philip Guelpa Newly reported human DNA from a cave in Ethiopia supports previous evidence that a major migration of Eurasians back to A...

The “Great Recession” and the deepening austerity drive

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Nick Beams A comment by  Financial Times  economic columnist Martin Wolf published November 11 points to the depth of the downturn in w...

Widespread fraud in Haitian presidential vote

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John Marion On November 5, Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (Conseil Electoral Provisoire, CEP) announced the results of the first...

Riot and Responsibility: Governance in Sri Lanka

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Asanga Abeyagoonasekera One of the greatest Buddhist monks of Sri Lanka, Most Ven Maduluwawe Sobitha, who spoke fearlessly to overthrow...
15 Nov 2015

The mergers boom, the financial oligarchy and imperialism

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Andre Damon According to press reports Thursday, the drug makers Allergan and Pfizer are in the advanced stages of talks to merge and for...