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Institute for Policy Studies Announces Ratification of Collective Bargaining Agreement with Staff Union

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A long-time supporter of labor unions and the labor movement, IPS voluntarily recognized the IPS staff union in 2021. ...

FACT SHEET: Your 2024 Tax Receipt

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). It’s spring, and that means Americans are filing their tax returns. Most will know whether they get a refund, but how...

Haiti crisis: UN mission announces airbridge to facilitate aid relief

The UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Wednesday that the air corridor will enable the transport of aid and ensure the safe...

China relied on extrajudicial means to force thousands of fugitives to repatriate, human rights...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Over the past decade China has forcibly repatriated more...

London property tied to Putin ally remains untouched by sanctions

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A multimillion-dollar London property tied to a high-ranking Russian...

Gazans Are Starving — Don’t Cut Aid Now

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. The world’s most influential judicial...

How to Deconstruct the New Iron Curtain

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News ( www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). The head of the U.S. Strategic Command told Congress last week that a powerful set of countries is...

Are the Flat Tax Folks Winning — or Have They Already Won?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). What makes an income tax “fair”? Right-wing lawmakers the nation over have a ready answer. To be fair, they tell us,...

ICIJ’s 2023 annual report showcases organization’s growth and impact

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has published its...

Biden’s Populist Budget Marks the Overdue End of Trickle-Down Economics

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo by Samuel Corum (Getty Images) A budget that reflects the needs of the people rather than corporate profit and...

EU to clamp down on dirty money with new agency based in Germany

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Frankfurt has been chosen to host the European Union’s...

Why Are Politicians Still Courting the Nefarious Fossil Fuel Lobby?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). From March 18 to 22, 2024, the oil and gas industry held its major annual conference, CERAWeek, in Houston, Texas.The conference speakers included the...

Do High Taxes on Our Rich Make Any Sense?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Home sweet home. For Jeff Bezos, one of our planet’s three richest human beings, the state of Washington neatly fit that description for...

Frequently asked questions about the Swazi Secrets investigation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). What is the Swazi Secrets investigation? Swazi Secrets is a...

Destroying the Lawn in Gaza

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout the narrow strip...

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest Americans debuted in 1982 with shipping magnate Daniel Ludwig in the top slot. Ludwig’s wealth, the...

The Critical Missing Piece from the U.S. Energy Transition

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). At the outset, the United States was blessed with enormous tracts of land (that it stole from the natives) and a...

USA: Rights experts slam ‘outrageous’ execution of inmate by nitrogen gas suffocation

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was executed in the southern state of Alabama on 25 January.  He had been convicted of murder in 1988. “Alabama’s use...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unpacks Black Literature’s ‘Black Box’

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). From the beginning, Gates shows, African Americans have turned to literary forms to validate their humanity. Credit: Vartika Sharma In...

Epstein files: Nobody should evade justice, say UN rights experts

The court documents reveal a horrifying list of alleged crimes perpetrated by Mr. Epstein, including sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, rape, sex trafficking, slavery, torture...

What We Spend on the EPA Compared to Pentagon Contractors

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). This month marked a year since the train derailment and contamination of air and water in East Palestine, Ohio, and in that...

UN underlines need to move forward on peace efforts in Colombia

Presenting the latest quarterly report by the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, which covers the period from 27 September to 26 December 2023, he...

Stopping the Dance of Death: Building a 21st Century Anti-War Movement

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). With Israel carrying out a U.S.-armed and funded genocide in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, tensions in the South China Sea, and the Doomsday...

The central bank in a tiny African country tried to block a suspicious banking...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Not much happens in Bulembu these days....