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Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! Newly unsealed documents related to the deceased convicted sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein include a reference to reports that former President Bill Clinton once threatened Vanity Fair magazine against reporting on Epstein. One new document contains an email sent by Virginia Giuffre, who had…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! Saturday marked the third anniversary of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. President Biden marked the anniversary by giving a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War site where George Washington and the Continental Army camped over the winter of 1777-1778, enduring…

Foto: cortesía Democracy Now! One 13-year-old Palestinian girl named Nadin Abdullatif said Israel bombed the shelter in Rafah where she and her family were staying after their home in Gaza City was blown up and one of her brothers was killed. Nadin Abdullatif: “Where am I supposed to go? Children…

Workers hold banner during a May 1 march: For a world where we are socially equal, humanely different, and totally free. Photo: Rosa Luxemburg.   At CISPES, we believe in the power of organizing. That’s why we support grassroots groups in El Salvador doing courageous and important organizing on the…

Photo GALA MLNews Room The Victor Shargai Leadership Award will be presented to Rebecca Medrano, co-founder and executive director of GALA Hispanic Theatre. “Ms. Medrano has worked tirelessly to amplify Latinx, and other historically marginalized, voices in our region,” said the speakers of Theatre Washington. “GALA’s education and outreach programs…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! The United Nations Security Council has for the third time this week postponed a vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and for Israel to allow shipments of food, water, fuel and medicine into the besieged territory. Several Security Council members have…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! On Thursday, Israel once again cut phone and internet service across most of Gaza, further hampering relief efforts. The World Food Programme reports half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people is “starving,” while nine out of 10 people are not eating enough and don’t…

Foto Google By Isaac Cohen* The US economy is closing the year with several    outstanding results. Among the most significant is the decline in inflation, from almost 9 percent last year, to around 3 percent last October, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index, still above the central…

Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR) marches with banners and signs showing loved ones who have been arbitrarily detained or killed in prison. Photo courtesy   Associated Press headline earlier this week: “El Salvador is seeing worst human rights abuses since 1980-1992 civil war, Amnesty reports.” According to Amnesty…

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Raphael Bostic. Photo: businessinsider.com By Isaac Cohen* The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Raphael Bostic, in his last quarterly message dedicated to current inflation trends in the United States, underlined the difference between disinflation and deflation. President Bostic said a “declining…