how-texas-jails-paved-the-way-for-migrant-incarceration

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for its weekly newsletter, or follow it on Facebook and X. In 1926, the Galveston League of Women Voters wrote to their U.S. senator to express concern over the “dreadful conditions which exist in regard to theContinue Reading

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Nearly 14 years ago, on Dec. 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that “the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come … inContinue Reading

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Presidents of China and Brazil hail ‘new phase’ in relations between two countries, which are major trading partners., Presidents of China and Brazil hail ‘new phase’ in relations between two countries, which are major trading partners. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva haveContinue Reading

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The events of November 7 in Amsterdam demonstrate that Zionism is crumbling and Palestinian solidarity is strong., On November 6 and 7, fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv rampaged through Amsterdam ahead of a match between their team and the Dutch football club Ajax. They assaulted localContinue Reading

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Demonstrations held in Athens and Thessaloniki against rising prices, low wages and unaffordable housing., Workers demonstrate on the streets of Thessaloniki. [Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP] Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Athens and other Greek cities as a 24-hour general strike to protest against the rising cost of livingContinue Reading