Americans talk fondly of equality, but, to paraphrase a statement in George Orwell’s satire about another allegedly classless society, in this country some people are more equal than others.
American politicians are fond of telling their audiences that the United States is the greatest country in the world. Is there any evidence for this claim?
The prison ship HMS Jersey was said to have housed some 8,000 prisoners in the waters of New York Harbor over seven years with as many as eight captives a day housed there being buried ashore in shallow graves near what is today, Brooklyn, New York.
"Virtually every bit of writing about Steven Salaita is highly charged and thus probably biased. But I and others have read enough of his writings to see that he consistently, expresses one-sided views."
It's twenty years since the US Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act which right-wing conservatives targeted as subversive, but which helped ignite a global movement against all kinds of violence against women and girls.
The conventional assumption among the public is that the success of bottled water is the result of clever advertising, a naïve consuming public, and a lax regulatory environment. It's not true.
It’s time to pay up – not in dollars but in commitment to a long-term “national conversation” in many parts of the nation to bridge the racial divide, root out the causes of conflict, and solve them.
The US public is again being misled by its media and politicians as to the true shape of the world, and is likely to suffer pretty badly for this ignorance.
