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Uncensored Black History Offers Lessons in Global Struggles for Liberation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Our time is shaped by Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza. But it is also shaped by the largest mobilization of opposition...

Writing About Yourself Isn’t Inherently Selfish

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In 2015, the Nobel Prize–winning novelist J. M. Coetzee published a book called The Good Story that he co-authored with a clinical psychologist...

Can Brazil Convince the World To Tax Billionaire Wealth?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Recent weeks have brought three more eye-popping glimpses of our world’s unconscionable concentration of income and wealth . . . The fabled...

EU efforts to slow the influx of illegal Russian timber marred by poor enforcement

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Tons of Russian timber continue to illegally flow into...

What Lies Beneath the Biden Administration’s Changing ‘Ceasefire’ Language

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Nathan Howard/Getty Images The US president is showing no sign of altering his actual policy of unconditional support for Israel...

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...

Myanmar’s controversial timber trade persists, despite Western sanctions

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Last November, agents coordinated by the European Union’s law...

CPJ, Freedom of the Press Foundation call for charges against New York freelancer to...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). CPJ+FPF_Dunlea letter_ NYCDownload Source of original article: Americas Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists (cpj.org). The content of this article does...

The USPS Network Consolidation Plan: What’s at Stake for Southern Oregon

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Acore feature of U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan, “Delivering for America,” is an initiative to restructure the nation’s postal...

Billionaires Can’t Save American Journalism

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). America’s media institutions have had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start to 2024. The unfolding crisis has been headlined...

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...

Cyprus to launch new unit targeting sanctions evaders

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Cyprus plans to create a new financial sanctions implementation...

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...

Gaza: Grand Bargain or Wider War?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). On the horizon, shimmering like some heavenly ideal, is a grand bargain to end the war in Gaza, establish an independent...

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...