3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1736+ words) The victory of Somalia’s Northeast State over secessionist Somaliland gives Somalis hope of renewed unity and sovereignty, but Israel attacked that hope by recognizing Somaliland. Somaliland’s declared president Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi is in Washington to plead with the United States…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1360+ words) Oklahoma prison inmates were making political calls for a conservative Super PAC during the primary. Originally published in Oklahoma Watch. When Oklahoma inmate Steve Wilbanks spoke to a reporter by phone in late July, it had been six weeks since…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1151+ words) The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil. Now it’s attempting to starve the Cuban people, targeting the country’s capacity to grow, process, and import food — unless it buys from US corporations. Originally published in Jacobin. Cuba’s…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1457+ words) A $400 million tech center is presented as progress for North Nashville. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a century of land dispossession dressed up as economic development. Within Nashville, Tennessee, there has been a…...