Source: Billmoyers.com Published: May 22, 2014 Ta-Nehisi Coates’ cover story at The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” published last night — and the subject of this week’s Moyers & Companyinterview — shows how dramatically the legacy of slavery and centuries of legalized and institutionalized racism have held back our country’s African-American population. In 2014, there still very much exists what in …
New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1%
Source: Theguardian.com Published: Monday, 19 January 2015 Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality after a study found that – on current trends – by next year, 1% of the world’s population will own more wealth than the other 99%. Ahead of this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in …
A ‘Guantanamo Diary’ From A Prisoner Still On The Inside
Source: NPR.ORG Audio: Listen to the Story Mohamedou Ould Slahi joined the rebels in Afghanistan in the early 1990s, was seized in his native Mauritania a decade later, and was sent to Jordan, where he was held for months. He eventually landed at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, where he remains. Today, he’s the first man still imprisoned at Guantanamo …
