Author: Laura Flanders

3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico are in dire crisis. The island territory is mired in debt and facing imminent default. Media coverage has blamed the last twenty years – when tax breaks were rolled back and loans extended. But this week’s guests say the root of Puerto Rico’s problems go deeper than that – to US colonial rule. If colonialism’s at least in part the culprit here, it’s pretty ironic that the solutions on offer from Congress seem so colonial as...

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of The Assassination Complex, says that we need to step back and take our cue from young...