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Steve Ellner debunks the myth (systematically promoted by Washington) that the Venezuelan “crisis” preceded the implementation of U.S. sanctions and thus the Maduro government alone is to blame for the current catastrophe.

A public memorial is a reminder that the present is traceable to a past when people tortured by law enforcement in this country fought to make their experiences known and part of official history—and won.

The California Institution for Men is an important reminder that the U.S. practiced in the past what prison reformers admire as humanistic punishment elsewhere.

Excerpt from Flint Taylor's new book "The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago"

These restrictions have already cost many thousands of people their health coverage and access to care and could harm millions more.

By 2010, the evidence about how interrogations can go wrong had become so compelling that Kassin and several colleagues from the U.S. and U.K. wrote an American Psychological Association white paper warning about the risk of coercion.

As Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator/organizer Bayron Rodríguez Pineda explains the roots of the national strike and the rise of popular power 10 years after the coup d’etat.

Now they face foreclosure. Urban African American neighborhoods are hardest hit as nearly 100,000 loans have failed.

Exploitation is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. Our economic system is beyond salvage.

Those losses are the result of highly sophisticated and intense anti-union campaigns by employers, business groups, and politicians. They are also the result of the unsophisticated, shallow organizing approach of the UAW.