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From Yemen to Haiti and everywhere in between, the poorest citizens are punished for unknown crimes

The efforts of the radical left today affect the choice of the replacement system in the middle run

I suggest that Zionists fond of smearing critics of Israel as ‘anti-Semites’ take a sobering look at the VICE news clip of the white nationalist torch march through the campus of the University of Virginia the night before the lethal riot in Charlottesville. In this central regard, anti-Semitism, and its links to Naziism and Fascism, Read more…

Interview about Bannon’s firing and potential trade war with China

Organizing to Protect the Durham Freedom Fighters

Many have focused on President Donald Trump’s statements on Charlottesville condemning the “violence” from “both sides”. Which is understandable, since the killing of Heather Heyer and overwhelming violence came from white supremacists. But virtually no one has scrutinized the first half of his remarks: Trump criticizing the “violence” of others. How is it that Trump Read more…

Guatemala’s Government Palace and the Street: Indigenous Campesinos Occupy Capital to Protest Land Conflicts

Quarterback Colin Kaepernick got countless kids talking about white supremacy. Now they’re learning that speaking out comes at a cost

The Philippines was the first imperial war fought by the United States

With teachers facing similar attacks in school districts across the country, it makes sense to share strategies for fighting back

Reflections on Charlottesville, WWII and Activism

The options are endless, and do not include the counterproductive tools of violence

I still have faith in juries of ordinary people when fully informed to make “just” decisions even if necessitating deviation from the law

Trump could not have been more rude to Spain, in recalling 1898. And he could not have been more accommodating to ISIL’s narrative

Big Challenges Remain

Democracy, such as it is, really is in danger.

Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit founded by former white supremacist that studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements

The Justice Department’s Dreamhost Subpoena

On 22 May, Ahmed Mohsen, an unemployed taxi driver, left his house in the Islamic State-controlled western part of Mosul to try to escape across the Tigris to the government-held eastern side of the city. He and his mother, along with ten other people, carried rubber tyres down to the river: most of them couldn’t Read more…

The son of a military veteran isn’t backing down from his anthem protest, and the Seahawks have his back

Early deaths a ‘silver lining’ for corporations

Most of the BRICS countries have witnessed sustained protests, many against corruption, environmental destruction and labor abuse

Trump has dispensed with the fiction of democracy because he believes that in the interest of power both people and the planet are disposable, excess to be plundered and discarded

Southerners on New Ground raised over $200,000 to free 64 Black women from jails across the South — some who had been there for as long as 451 days simply because they could not afford to post bail

New directions in Trump’s approach to Latin America reveal the changed status of U.S. influence in the region

High Crimes and Demeanors in the Age of Trump

Beating Big Business & Business Unionism

Middle-class high-schoolers aren’t getting any smarter, but their GPAs are rising—and that’s pushing their poor peers further behind

What the death of an Irishman who lost his life fighting for Britain can tell us about the stupidity of Brexit

The German minister of justice, Jeff Sessions’ counterpart, Heiko Maas, said it was “unbearable” for Trump to gloss over the violence that occurred during the march of a “right wing horde” on Charlottesville

The press conference of August 15th will live in infamy

I have walked among them since I first learned to walk.  They surrounded me in blue-collar Utica, New York–an early capitol of Rust Belt America, back in the 1950s, where “nigger” was an all-purpose, white-on-white epithet on the Little League diamonds and basketball courts—though I never saw a black person in the flesh until I Read more…

When a Left starts to talk about a world based on love and justice, and shows genuine compassion for those not yet in their ranks

Interview about the the 1998 invasion of the Congo by the US puppet armies of Rwanda and Uganda and its consequences almost two decades on

Why it had a monopoly on violence & Intimidation

The near obliteration of infrastructure in Korea and the resultant suffering must remain deeply entrenched in the memories of North Koreans

A community rights group in Youngstown, Ohio, is attempting to amend their city’s charter in order to ban corporate interference in their local elections

The seeds of the alt-right

If the president is concerned about violence on the left, he can start by fighting the white supremacist movements whose growth has fueled its rise

State and local Republicans have expanded early voting in GOP-dominated areas and restricted it in Democratic areas, prompting a significant change in Central Indiana voting patterns

Healing and building are where the bulk of our energies belong right now, because getting our shit together is a task more important than any one action, and in this moment, I am terrified of what failure looks like

The military and militarized police are not here to protect you

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller impanels two grand juries to investigate Donald Trump and his associates, and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s home is searched, Trump needs to distract attention from the investigation into his alleged wrongdoing. North Korea has provided just such a distraction — albeit a potentially catastrophic one. On Tuesday, Trump Read more…

That anyone who defends the legal rights of terrorists or gives them a platform is culpable for the violence they commit has been standard neoconservative and far right cant for decades

And All the Men and Women Merely Soldiers

Our self-destructive stubbornness is a function of a successful, ideologically managed education

The Virginia story is not over

One reason Maduro is so despised by the opposition is that he refuses to follow the neoliberal economic prescription of austerity, privatization, deregulation, etc.

Want to demoralize the fascist right? We need their white athletic heroes telling them to go to hell

A group that included many people who were college-educated or ex-military displayed effective planning. “White people are pretty good at getting organized,” said one.