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This article is excerpted from Ellen Brown's new book Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, available in paperback June 1.

The Prime Minister (PM) Justin Trudeau-sanctioned National Inquiry concluded that disproportionate violence faced by Indigenous women and girls caused the genocide.

Sexual harassment in Indian Country is an inconvenient and deeply uncomfortable truth.

This has happened in full view of the world for 30 years while he sold 100 million albums, opened the winter Olympics. ... It all happened as everybody watched and nobody did anything." - Jim DeRogatis

The phrase is seeping into mainstream media discourse, a far cry from its former days as an extremist catch phrase, and it’s creating a dangerous situation with an ominous historical context.

The disproportionate focus on corruption of national leaders distracts from the systemic theft of national wealth by multinational corporations

But the persistence of racially biased policing means that unless American policing reckons with its racist roots, it is likely to keep repeating mistakes of the past.

An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump — something the originators of quantum mechanics assumed was impossible.

After thirty-nine years of war, we must seriously seek new ways to peace. It is time to let the conflict be resolved by Afghans, in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan’s national interests. The following theses might serve as a basis for discussion.

But, on this D-Day anniversary, Donald Trump is rolling out a program, favored by his right-wing backers, that directly attacks public provision of veterans’ healthcare.