Obama effort paltry vs Cuba’s ebola aid

By Glen Ford The real vector of mass death stalking West Africa is not the ebola-carrying fruit bat but a global capitalist system that has plundered Africa for centuries. Public health services are perceived as a threat to global capitalism; private profit is the system’s aim. When Ebola had clearly become unmanageable, President Barack Obama […]

Mourning 'War on Terror's' ungrievable casualties

Mourning 'War on Terror's' ungrievable casualties

By Azeezah Kanji On Thursday, May 15, U.S. President Barack Obama presided over the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, constructed at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center towers – a “sacred place of healing and of hope,” the president solemnly proclaimed. A sacred place, indeed, in the secular religion of […]