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OAS has always functioned as foreign policy arm of the imperial overreach of the United States government

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.

It’s not the nuclear deal that’s the problem for Tel Aviv, but the very idea that Washington and Tehran would reach any detente at all.

A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.

It’s time for Americans to call socialism by its name. Like Sisyphus, the best we can expect is that the rock may stay where we’ve put it for a long while, sometimes for entire generations of decency, as the struggle continues.

As predicted by multiple polls, Sandinistas, led by Daniel Ortega, won a resounding victory in the November 7th elections in Nicaragua. The elections were a referendum on the path that the Sandinista government has taken the country.

A film about Carlos Marighella, released in Berlin in 2019, only arrived in Brazil last month after government cancellations.

We reject the efforts of legislators in states across the country to abolish the right to make one’s own decisions regarding their bodies, their health care, their families and their futures

At the heart of the Cold War is a quest for world domination under the guise of “American exceptionalism”.

The threat to the survival of our democracy is clear: a would-be dictator and a cultist political party. A truly multiracial, inclusive, radical democratic movement that has a vision beyond capitalism is key. You can help. Here's how.