David S. D’Amato is an attorney, businessman, and independent researcher. He is a Policy Advisor to the Future of Freedom Foundation and a regular opinion contributor to The Hill. His writing ...

Dean Baker is the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its atrocious consequences, as John Saltford meticulously ...

They instituted a policy of executing Black POWs, ignoring the decorum afforded to white POWs. Many massacres of Black troops line the war’s history; at Fort Pillow, around 200 Black soldiers ...

Introduction The concept of the “ ruling class ” has long served as a central analytical tool in the social sciences, particularly in Marxist traditions. [1] This article traces the evolution ...

For the king, the aim was to make “submission not just tolerable but actually desirable.” That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed dynastic. “The king was not just the most ...

For over four years now, burgeoning paramilitary gangs have waged a war on the 2.5 million people of Port-au-Prince. Last year, the disparate paramilitaries confederated into the Viv Ansanm gang ...

Trump dreams of his own Kafkaesque penal colony, a place where he can ship the accused without the trouble of a trial, a place where the imprisoned have no chance to defend themselves and, in fact ...

After being betrayed by the United Nations more than sixty years ago, Melanesian West Papua, occupied by Indonesia ever since, is a particularly poignant case in point. In its increasingly ...

125 years after it was first serialized in three installments in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness continues to be ...

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, the newly published book by Laura Delano, is scaring the hell out of establishment psychiatry and its Big Pharma partners, who in recent ...

President Trump, in his March 4 State of the Union address, stated: "And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. We strongly ...