A staggering 233 election cases are pending in federal courts facing off over voting rights during an election in a pandemic. Voter suppression rulings are already underway. Recently, a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ process for tossing absentee ballots over mismatched signatures, determining that the right to vote by mail is not…
There is an ongoing DHS investigation into the forced hysterectomies performed on ICE detainees; an act of genocide with deep roots in US history. It was confirmed that the Georgia doctor performed two hysterectomies on detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center who allege they did not consent to such an abhorrent procedure. ICE —…
The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act allocating $740.5 billion to the defense budget while including a plan to rename bases named after Confederates. This comes after voting down Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposed 10% cut in defense funding.
“These slaves constituted a peculiar rand powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of war,” Abraham Lincoln stated in his second inaugural address according to Major Problems (2). That single speech succinctly explained the cause of the Civil War fought from 1861 through 1865 – slavery. Slavery and the economic, political…
Industrial capitalism has relied on cost minimization through cheap labor since the Gilded Age — it’s now moved overseas where it’s had unsafe, exploitative ramifications in developing nations. The decline in US manufacturing since the 1970s has without a doubt transformed the economic landscape to the detriment of non-college educated American workers. The 14.3 million…
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only revealed the inherent, exploitative economic failures of an unfettered free market, but also, the environmental failures of capitalism as decreased fossil-fuel activity has cleared the air pollution in Asia, and canals in Italy. Yet there has been a rising online sentiment pinning global environmental deterioration on…
As supply chains struggle under global health concerns over the spread of COVD-19, many are left wondering whether an economic recession in 2020 is imminent amid the 2,000 point plummet in the Dow, supply-chain disruptions among companies sourced in China, and weakened consumer demand in sectors such as oil and the airline industry. Data on…
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen (Matt. 20:16).” The blessed apostles who served God and not mammon were penniless, persecuted, imprisoned, Lazarus the greedy rich man burned while the beggar was carried to Abraham’s bosom, Jesus overthrew the moneychangers from the church and fed…
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