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Trump’s Folly And America’s Lost Cause

Trump’s Folly And America’s Lost Cause

How Cold War Lies and GOP Myths Still Shape U.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower is generally remembered by Democrats as the best Republican president of the last 100 years. Yet, he’s responsible for initiating hostilities with Iran that have been taken to...

Immigrant raids at farms, work sites? Not the answer, businesses say

Immigrant raids at farms, work sites? Not the answer, businesses say

Immigration authorities are resuming worksite enforcement at farms, hotels, and restaurants after a brief pause, despite President Donald Trump expressing concern about how the operations were affecting those industries. The raids have worried...

It’s time for America to remember how dangerous regime change is

It’s time for America to remember how dangerous regime change is

The ceasefire between Iran and Israel might still hold, but if not, the United States might double down on its weekend strikes and seek the overthrow of the Iranian regime. Donald Trump threatened this in comments and tweets earlier, and top...

A Nicaraguan View from the Frontlines: Revolution, Reconciliation, and Resistance

[Source: Photo courtesy of Jennifer Aist] “Democracy in the U.S. has never been functional. It’s just in some laws, but it has never been implemented. There’s a huge misinformation campaign going on in the U.S., and media is manipulating people...

Quilt Honors Survivors of Forced Sterilization in California Prisons: ‘Together We Rise’

Quilt Honors Survivors of Forced Sterilization in California Prisons: ‘Together We Rise’

(California Coalition for Women Prisoners / Facebook)Six women unveiled a quilt earlier this year they called “Together We Rise! Together We Heal!” honoring the nearly 600 survivors of forced sterilization in California state prisons. One of those...

Record number of displaced people due to poor security

Haiti - Social : Record number of displaced people due to poor security 26/06/2025 10:24:17 One year after the deployment of the first contingent of the Kenya-led, United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support Mission (MMSS) to Haiti,...

Great joy! 3 men to be ordained to the priesthood

Great joy! 3 men to be ordained to the priesthood

VENICE | The Ordination to the Priesthood is considered a pivotal moment in the life of a Diocese, and certainly also in the lives of the men answering that specific, sacred call to serve God. The Diocese of Venice is blessed this year to have...

Time to Unmask Trump’s Detention and Deportation Squads

Time to Unmask Trump’s Detention and Deportation Squads

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan With each passing day, the violence wielded by ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, grows more intense and widespread. One grotesquely emblematic example of this was the recent violent arrest of...

How the Republican megabill targets immigrant finances

How the Republican megabill targets immigrant finances

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to reporters at Capitol Hill on June 24, 2025 in Washington. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images News | Getty Images A Republican megabill that lawmakers are trying to pass by the Fourth of July would...

NeighborHealth Appoints Dr. Julio Mazul as Chief Medical Officer

NeighborHealth Appoints Dr. Julio Mazul as Chief Medical Officer

Special to the Journal NeighborHealth has announced the appointment of Julio Mazul, MD, as the organization’s first-ever Latino Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (CMO). A practicing OB/GYN and longtime provider, Dr. Mazul has served the...

2025 Freedom and Prosperity Indexes: How political freedom drives growth

2025 Freedom and Prosperity Indexes: How political freedom drives growth

By Ignacio Campomanes, Nina Dannaoui-Johnson, Annie (Yu-Lin) Lee, and Joseph Lemoine Table of contents The dangerous authoritarian narrative A dangerous belief has taken root globally: that political freedom is not essential to prosperity and may...

"I shall bloom in another place before you get back."

"I shall bloom in another place before you get back."

Will I see you there? I hope so. If not, do you promise to look in online? I’ve begun writing down notes for the presentation that I plan to give on Friday, 8 August, at the 2025 FAIR Conference. And, by the way, the conference organizers have...

Asian American leaders urge their communities to stand by Latinos, denounce ICE raids

Asian American leaders urge their communities to stand by Latinos, denounce ICE raids

As federal immigration raids continue to upend life in Los Angeles, Asian American leaders are rallying their communities to raise their voices in support of Latinos, who have been the primary targets of the enforcement sweeps, warning that...

The Cornerstone of Counternarcotics: Inside Multinational Strategy Orion

The Cornerstone of Counternarcotics: Inside Multinational Strategy Orion

Widely considered as one the most effective multinational strategies worldwide to combat drug trafficking, Colombia-led naval campaign Orion entered a new phase in 2025, with an expanded scope. Its investigative and operational centers now work...

How a Favored Migrant Route Became Invasive Species Superhighway to US

How a Favored Migrant Route Became Invasive Species Superhighway to US

The Darién Gap, long a perilous route for millions of migrants traveling north toward the United States, has also become a pathway for the northward spread of the New World screwworm—a parasitic fly now challenging decades of containment efforts....

Qatar Cabinet condemns Al Udeid attack, considers draft law on water security

Qatar Cabinet condemns Al Udeid attack, considers draft law on water security

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani chaired the Cabinet's regular meeting held on Wednesday morning at the Amiri Diwan. Following the meeting, Minister of Justice and...

Jury has found Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales guilty of a 2023 Dakota Dunes murder

Jury has found Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales guilty of a 2023 Dakota Dunes murder

ELK POINT, S.D. (KTIV) - After around two hours of deliberation, Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2023 stabbing death of Jordan Beardshear in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. Over seven days, 15 Union...

CMC invites you to Cuba

CMC invites you to Cuba

Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is offering an opportunity this fall for students and interested community members to travel to Cuba through a faculty- led study abroad program. The 11-day, 10-night trip is scheduled for Nov. 21 through Dec. 1,...

2025 Farmer of the Year announced

2025 Farmer of the Year announced

Larry Jacobs and Sandra Belin, co-owners of Jacobs Farm del Cabo, have been named 2025 Farmer of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau. The award is presented annually to farmer(s) who have contributed “beyond their normal farming duties...

Global perspectives reframe timeline and scope of WWII

Global perspectives reframe timeline and scope of WWII

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the “official” end of World War II, but in “The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives,” published in April by Cornell University Press, the war’s timeline is extended back to 1931 and into the...

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