The six-decade U.S. blockade of Cuba was made worse under the administration of Donald Trump. Joe Biden can lift these measures and immediately improve the lives of the 11 million living in Cuba.
Continue readingWhy Delivery Workers Across the Planet Are Rising Up Against Exploitation
Even before the crisis of the pandemic, food delivery companies have seen their profits skyrocket while their so-called “self-employed” workers suffer rights violations and were banned from unionizing.
Continue readingMigrant Women Are Holding Society Together During This Pandemic
The social impact of lockdowns has unequally been borne by women, with many having to leave the workforce due to mounting pressure of looking after families and home schooling of children.
Continue readingWitnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face
Roughly 11,500 people got on boats at places like Obock and Bosasso, Somalia, to go into Yemen, and then overland to Saudi Arabia, where they hope to get employment.
Continue readingLibya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders
Last year, it became clear that the already chaotic Libya would slip into disaster.
Continue readingThe War in Libya Will Never End
What the NATO war on Libya did to that country is to turn it into a battlefield of other people’s ambitions, to reduce Libya into a chessboard for a multidimensional game that is hard to explain and even harder to end.
Continue readingHow Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Is Driving the Migration Wave That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
Many of those fleeing parts of Africa and Asia are fleeing bombs sold by European arms merchants, or economic stagnation fueled by European banks and multinationals.
Continue readingThe Latin American Migration Crisis Was Born Out of Greed and Myths About Race
In Unwanted People, historian Aviva Chomsky’s essays explore the roots of this violent history.
Continue readingWhy the Government’s Hunt for the Migrant Poor Is a Perfect Distraction From the Real Problems of Our Time
The powerful old men who rule the world have an existential advantage, which is that they won’t live to see the fruits of their hate and greed.
Continue readingLibya’s Incoming Strongman Haftar Will Send the Oil out to Europe—and Keep Its Migrants In
European values are fairly clear: they want oil to travel northward, not people. Haftar, at the cost of the Libyans themselves, will make that happen.
Continue readingImagine a World Without War, Where Migrants Are Welcomed, Where Women Are Not Targets
Fighting indifference with justice on International Human Rights Day.
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