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No Change in Nicaragua’s Dictatorship
By Daniel Nardini Well, Nicaragua still has political prisoners from the marches and demonstrations from last year in jail, and human rights abuses by the police and militias are widespread…. Read more
Hong Kong on the Precipice
By Daniel Nardini As Chinese troops are massed on the border separating the city and territory of Hong Kong from the rest of China, the question seems to be if… Read more
Mental Health Care in Crisis
By Daniel Nardini In the rural town of Mount Carroll, just 25 minutes from the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois, is a health clinic which provides services for people who… Read more
Cry “Fascist”
By Daniel Nardini I see this word almost every week. The term “Fascist” is used to describe either U.S. President Donald Trump or some rightwing rally or some state or… Read more
The Butcher of Beijing Dead
By Daniel Nardini I hope there is an especially warm place for Li Peng in Hell. Li Peng, nicknamed the “Butcher of Beijing,” was one of the architects of the… Read more
The Scourge of Malaria Returns to Venezuela
By Daniel Nardini When I was in Venezuela, one of the things that I did not have to worry about was getting the dreaded disease malaria. Before I ever went… Read more
ANTIFA Seriously Attacks and Injures a Journalist
By Daniel Nardini If this had happened at an alt-right rally and demonstration the U.S. mainstream news media would have been all over this. This happened however at a left… Read more
The Keep Illinois Families Together Act
By Daniel Nardini In reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s angry rhetoric of threatening to arrest, imprison and deport immigrants, some states are answering with measures to protect those immigrants—whether… Read more
Forget Slavery Reparations
By Daniel Nardini I NEVER thought in my life that I would agree with anything U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell has said, but for once I have to agree with the… Read more
Did Frida Kahlo Know About Communist Crimes?
By Daniel Nardini It has become a major political firestorm in Mexico. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau made a controversial comment rhetorically asking whether renowned Mexican artist and feminist… Read more »