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Her cry from inside the occupation: Janna Jihad is a voice for Palestinian children

The 13-year-old Palestinian journalist and activist sits down with Street Roots to share her perspective on what’s happening to children in the West Bank Sounds of explosives reverberate in the background of the video posted to Facebook on April 20, 2018. ...

9 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
Like NAFTA, USMCA trade deal is about corporate globalization

COMMENTARY | Beware of biased methodology and bogus assumptions about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Now that President Donald Trump has backed off his threat to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico, serious talks have begun in Washington, D.C., on ...

21 Jun 2019 - Martin Hart-Lan...
The Davos-annoying, billionaire-baiting, tax-loving Rutger Bregman

The best-selling author talks about Tucker Carlson, socialism and his cause célèbre: universal basic income “We gotta be talking about taxes. Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion.” It was with this outburst, delivered at the annual ...

12 Apr 2019 - Sam Delaney
The enemy is us: Veteran Dan Shea pushes for peace with Venezuela

The Veterans for Peace activist, who recently met President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, cautions against U.S. military intervention Dan Shea joined Veterans for Peace after he returned from the Vietnam War feeling like he had invaded a country that wante ...

29 Mar 2019 - Stephen Quirke
African rats are sniffing out landmines for safe detonation in Cambodia

After decades of conflict, the specially-trained rodents are helping to clear explosives They’re the unlikeliest of heroes, working for peanuts (and bananas) to make Cambodia a safer place. Meet the African giant pouched rat, a TNT-sniffing rodent that is ...

25 May 2018 - Amy Hetherington
The case for doing away with NAFTA

COMMENTARY | The controversial trade agreement is set for renegotiation. Could this be the year we finally put our foot down? The North American Free Trade Agreement is unpopular with many people who correctly blame it for encouraging capital flight, job ...

9 Feb 2018 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Global lessons from Latin America’s left

BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left,’ by Jeffery Webber In the early 2000s, South America was a beacon of hope for developing nations. In country after country ...

30 Jun 2017 - Mike Wold
Pope talks to street papers: ‘Humanity’ for homeless, refugees

‘It is always right to give help,’ Pope Francis says in his second interview with street papers Pope Francis has always had a special connection to those living on the street. So much so that last year, in Rome, where approximately 6,000 vulnerable, poor ...

16 Mar 2017 - Stefano Lampertico