Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

No Foreign Bases Conference, 1/12-1/14 2018

Join the No Foreign Bases Conference taking place in Baltimore this Weekend. If you can’t get to Baltimore you can follow the panels and listen to the speakers here. Opening Session, International Evening (Starts around minute 27) Plenary 1: History and Economic Costs of U.S. Military Bases (starts around 5 min) Plenary 2: South America/Guantanamo, Plenary 3: Asia Pacific/ Pivot[…]

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The Invisibility of Poverty in Puerto Rico

by Oscar Oliver-Didier, originally published on CounterPunch It has been more than two months since Hurricane María, a catastrophic category four hurricane, took a heavy toll on Puerto Rico’s infrastructure and dismally affected its local residents. People in the mainland saw pictures and videos of entire communities being physically disconnected due to bridges collapsing and roads being covered with debris.[…]

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