Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Iran, BRICS, and the Dangers of Strategic Patience

by Tarak Cyril Amar, published on TarakCyrilAmar.com, June 27, 2025 Not as Antiwar as I would like to publish, but Anti-imperialist for sure.   This perspective is not new to those of us in the ‘belly of the beast’ who would like to see world emancipation. The recent – and certainly not last – massive and unambiguously criminal assaults by the[…]

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The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Defend Democracy, June 5, 2025 A people’s tribunal Almost sixty years ago, the world watched in horror as the US carried out brutal aggression and serial atrocities against the people of Vietnam. Those atrocities, and the apparent impunity afforded to the US in their commission, was, for many, too much to bear. Because no state,[…]

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Immigration as a Political Weapon

by William Camacaro, National co-Coordinator, published on The Alliance for Social Justice, May 24, 2025 Although the primary victims of El Salvador’s neo-fascist prison system are the Salvadorans themselves. Hundreds of migrants have been illegally deported by the US to these infamous prisons, currently there are approximately 110,000 prisoners across the country; approximately 85,000 of these prisoners have been arrested[…]

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Cyril Ramphosa Schools Trump’s Distorted Presentation on Racism in South Africa

by Ranjan Solomon, published on Countercurrents, May 23, 2025 This article is lightly edited. [jb] When it was announced that South African President Cyril Ramphosa was to visit the White House, there was speculation over whether Ramphosa would have to cope with the kind of bombardment and mistreatment that Zelensky went through on his visit to the White House. Trump[…]

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Khamenei Blasts ‘Absurd’ US Demands In Nuclear Talks

News from the Cradle, published on Popular Resistance, May 21, 2025 The Islamic Republic has repeatedly rejected Washington’s calls for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on 20 May that Tehran is “not waiting for anyone’s permission” to enrich uranium, stressing that he does not expect a positive outcome from ongoing nuclear talks with the[…]

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Remembering the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Linking the Struggle At Home and Abroad by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 4, 2025 The following article, updated on Workers World and lightly edited here, was originally posted on April 3, 2024.   This April 4  marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Civil Rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while he was supporting Black[…]

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Israeli Fascism is Fueled by European White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, March 18, 2025 The unlimited support western powers give to Israel is a continuation of colonial violence and white supremacy. The U.S. and the west wield a false moral superiority over colonized peoples struggling for liberation. “The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are[…]

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Who Protects the People From the Human Rights Protectors?

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report,February 26, 2025 Can Palestinians get a little Humanitarian Intervention? Of all the ideological mystifications created by the white West to rationalize and justify its brutal exploitation and colonization of the world the last five hundred years, the cruelest hoax ever perpetrated on the colonized and the entire world is the idea that[…]

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Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult But Essential. “186,000 or Even More Deaths.” The Lancet

by Joe Iosbaker, published on Fightback News, February 10, 2025 We also have to remember that many of the migrants and refugees who come into this country are fleeing disastrous situations in their own countries which are caused by the United States.  [jb] Chicago, IL – The streets of Little Village in Chicago were filled with the sounds of drums[…]

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The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 12, 2025 When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves. While there are endless think pieces written on the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s second ascendancy to the white house, working[…]

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