Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Advocate For Justice, Dies At 76

Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, the famous professional boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white jury in 1967 but later exonerated, has died in Toronto at the age of 76. His death was confirmed by family friends close to the man whose journey of racially-charged imprisonment helped fuel the prisoner rights movement while becoming […]

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, the famous professional boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white jury in 1967 but later exonerated, has died in Toronto at the age of 76. His death was confirmed by family friends close to the man whose journey of racially-charged imprisonment helped fuel the prisoner rights movement while becoming the

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Risky Words: How Media Obscures Syrian Conflict

For now, let us put to one side who is right and who is wrong and even ignore the question of what actually happened.

John Nordin
By John Nordin

What’s in a name? Our language is flexible, adaptable, a source of delight for many – but it is also the case that the subtlest choice of words can imply ideas in ways we may not notice. Recent press reports about the Israeli intervention into the Syrian conflict provide many examples. For now, let us put to one side who is right and who is

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Encroaching Sea Already A Threat In Caribbean

The people along this vulnerable stretch of eastern Grenada have been watching the sea eat away at their shoreline in recent decades.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines of the southern

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Bush Library Opens, Glosses Over Brutal U.S. Wars In Iraq, Afghanistan

After the opening of the $250 million George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas last month, Americans will have access to new exhibits extolling the Iraq War, an invasion opposed by the majority of U.N. members states and one that experts believe took the lives of at least 123,000 Iraqi civilians and […]

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels

After the opening of the $250 million George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas last month, Americans will have access to new exhibits extolling the Iraq War, an invasion opposed by the majority of U.N. members states and one that experts believe took the lives of at least 123,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,448 U.S. troops. “I

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