Author: Daniel Christof

A Senate bill, the EARN IT Act of 2020, introduced by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in March 2020, appears to revise regulations aimed at preventing online sexual exploitation of children by establishing a national commission to guide online service providers, such as Facebook and Twitter, in preventing child pornography and trafficking. However, […]

Poverty and homelessness are typically hidden from view in New Hampshire but they were highlighted in the mainstream during the recent presidential primary elections, as Jarrett Murphy reported for City Limits.  In the last debate before the Democratic primaries, on February 7, 2020, debate moderator George Stephanopoulos made poverty a topic. As Stephanopoulos noted in […]

In January 2020, YES! Magazine reported about the efforts of  pregnant mothers in Wisconsin who deal with substance disorders to overcome their addictions. As Jessica Martinaitis and Mary Hall reported, these mothers are overcoming their addictions with the help of recovery coaches through a pilot program called Pregnancy 2 Recovery, which champions a “trauma-informed, holistic […]

Abby Martin, a US journalist and supporter of the BDS movement, was scheduled to speak at the International Critical Media Literacy Conference held in Georgia in February 2020. Her talk was canceled because she refused to sign a pledge that would have prevented her from talking about the BDS movement. Georgia, along with 27 other […]

Establishment news coverage of COVID-19 has often been framed in terms of military conflict—“the war against the virus” or “the fight against COVID-19”—by CNN, the New York Times, and more.  Just as with previous “wars” on poverty, drugs, cancer and terrorism, this new ‘war on COVID-19’ is doomed to fail if we adopt a similar […]

The conclusion of a study recently released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) states that poor Americans are nearly twice as likely as rich Americans to die before they reach old age. New data from the US Census Bureau also confirms that the gap between the richest and poorest households in the US is the […]

Isolation, quarantine, and social distancing may be an effective strategy when dealing with a global pandemic like the COVID-19 coronavirus, but these measures can also accentuate the hyperindividuality and eroded social bonds of a market-driven (neoliberal) economy. The pandemic also reminds us of our shared existence and common needs. All around us, everyday people are […]

In the Ukrainian premier soccer league in a match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kiev, there were apparent racist chants directed towards a Brazilian soccer player named Taison. He picked up the ball and kicked it into the crowd, then striking his middle finger to them. Taison was presented with a red card, which leads […]

In January 2020 a trial concluded for the murder of Nunavik teen Robert Adams, with a life sentence handed to his killer. The news didn’t make headlines beyond the Arctic, nor was the full extent of the story revealed to a larger audience in the mainstream media. However, a special report on Radio Canada International’s […]