Jack Mirkinson
Splinter In the weeks since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, you will have no doubt seen some variation of the words “Puerto Ricans are Americans.” It’s a well-meaning refrain coming from a wide range of 

Nato Green
San Francisco Examiner The fires are not contained. The bodies haven’t been found. It’s time to talk about politics …

Perry Stein
Washington Post The booming and increasingly dynamic D.C. economy is leaving the city’s longtime black residents behind, according to a study released Thursday that examines African American employment, population and housing trends in the nation’s capital.

Pascale Bonnefoy
New York Times SANTIAGO, Chile - An old rotary phone rings insistently. Visitors at a new exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights here in Santiago who pick up the receiver hear two men complain bitterly about the liberal news media "bleating" over the military coup that had toppled Salvador Allende, the Socialist president of Chile, five days earlier.

Portside National Mobilization to Stop Trump War on North Korea - November 4 - 11  - Tidbits - Oct. 12 (Christine Ahn, Women Cross DMZ)Stop War with North Korea; Online Teach-ins Continue (United for Peace and Justice - UFPJ)The Human Cost of War with North Korea (SolidarityINFOService)

Barbara Nimri Aziz
Portside “The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects…They crawled over the ground, laying the track and rolling on it and picking it up. Diesel tractors, puttering while they stood idle; they thundered when they moved, and then settled down to a droning roar. Snub nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking their

Ruwan Subasinghe
Equal Times When International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) inspector Darren Proctor visited the Panama-flagged Tahsin in Gloucestershire, UK, in July 2017, he found evidence of the Turkish, Georgian and Indian crew drinking seawater as there was no potable water on the ship for over 10 days, out-of-date food, and non-operational galley equipment.

Peter Ross
Boston Review “It was a bright cold day in April,” said Richard Blair, “and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Blair is seventy-three and the son of George Orwell. To witness him stand at a lectern and read the opening line of his father’s great final novel, 1984, is to experience a sense of completion, an equation solved.