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Suicide rates are climbing in nearly every demographic, age group and geographic area, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) . Deaths by suicide have …
Wireless technology literally has overtaken our world! There are more cell phones than there are humans on Planet Earth! Humans are bombarded with quintillion more frequencies today than we were o…
The Trumpian Buddha-esque physique is now achievable in Mexico thanks to NAFTA. While Donald Trump likes to recycle easily refutable arguments about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) be…
Photo: The Independent/courtesty of family We’re Suing the Government for Its Detention and Abuse of Rosa Maria, a 10-Year-Old Child With Cerebral Palsy By Amrit Cheng, ACLU October 31, 2017 At this …
A Guatemalan immigrant has taken sanctuary with her three children at the Holyrood Episcopal Church in northern Manhattan; the move came after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told her to p…
By Sheila Bapat, Truthout August 13, 2017 Reina Gomez, 49, has been cleaning homes and caring for elderly people in South Florida since 2002. Her earnings as a domestic worker support her treatments…
Salvadoran immigrant Carlos Mejía Bonilla (or Bonilla Mejia, according to Univision) died of gastrointestinal bleeding on June 10, two months after being placed in immigration detention at the Hudson…
In 3 Months, 3 Immigrants Have Died at a Private Detention Center in California Members of Congress have cited the Adelanto Detention Facility for "egregious" medical errors. By Madison Pau…
This important article breaks two mainstream media taboos: it shows how immigration status enables corporation to super-exploit workers, and it mentions one of the ways in which Washington’s foreign …
I try not to focus excessively on US-only topics, but this I cannot resist since it has the potential to delay or waylay the rest of Trump's racist-isolationist-protectionist agenda. (Which is a …
As unions decline, construction workers are dying at alarming rates. [We should also remember that many of the construction workers being victimized at unsafe non-union sites are undocumented. These …
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) finds the U.S. violated the workers' human rights. Sarah Mehta and Jamil Dakwar, American Civil Liberties Union December 22, 2016 In 2004, Le…
Dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances in privatized, immigrant-only prisons. The Bureau of Prisons itself says there’s a problem. And yet the privatization scheme continues. By Seth Fre…
“In recent years, we’ve seen this trend of people who survived the big civil wars of the nineties—Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone—come to the U.S. as refugees, and now, many years later, are struggling …
By Xatherin Gonzalez, Bitch Media Bitch Magazine November 16, 2015 In September 2015, an undocumented woman arrived at a healthcare clinic outside of Houston, Texas for a routine follow-up exam. Blan…
It'd be more appropriate if they depicted two accountants shaking hands. In trying to be impartial by covering the entire ideological spectrum of IPE, my link list at the bottom includes the Tax…
With one tweet , Hillary Clinton wiped out billions and billions in drugmaker market capitalization worldwide. Stock markets around the world are quite jumpy at the moment. Almost any news that can b…
Elderly doing crime for prison's food, shelter, and--indeed--companionship. There's a heartbreaking story that's received much airtime in US media concerning the notes a third-grade teach…
Poor IMF: among the many ills supposedly attributable to its activities worldwide, chalk its historical emphasis on "structural adjustment" for weakening West African health care systems t…
Could the World Bank have handled the Ebola outbreak in West Africa better? Let's begin 2015 with an important and hard-hitting brand of analysis the IPE Zone is known for by now. The outbreak of…
