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The Black Alliance for Peace Welcomes the Release of Leonard Peltier and Demands Unrestricted Release of all U.S. Political Prisoners

Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace, January 28, 2025 The immoral life sentence of American Indian Movement freedom fighter, political prisoner and prisoner of war, Leonard Peltier was commuted by the U.S. President Joe Biden, only moments before Biden’s term in office ended. Now 80 years old, Peltier languished for over 50 years in prison after being unjustly convicted[…]

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Switzerland Deports Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah

by Electronic Intifada, published on Popular Resistance, January 29, 2025 Human rights experts condemn detention of prominent Palestinian journalist. The Electronic Intifada’s executive director Ali Abunimah was deported by Switzerland on Monday after spending two nights in jail. Abunimah described his experience in a statement he made upon arrival to Istanbul airport late Monday. He said that he was “cut[…]

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What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Internationalist 360º, December 26, 2024 The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power[…]

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White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship.  That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]

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U.S. Policy in Korea is Stuck in a Time Warp With Little Having Changed Since 1950

by Dermot Hudson, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 15, 2024 The DPRK Has Thwarted U.S. Designs to Control the Korean Peninsula in a Major Historical Accomplishment. Revisiting the lead up to the Korean war, a tale of atrocities, before, during and after… an important description of events prior to the Korean War.  I had no idea so many of[…]

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In the Face of Repression, Resistance Thrives

Statement by Students for Justice in Palestine at George Washington University and George Washington University Student Coalition for Palestine, published on Mondoweiss, December 15, 2023 It has been over two months since the beginning of the Zionist regime most recent stage of genocide against the steadfast people of Gaza, in which almost 20,000 of our people have been slaughtered by[…]

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Predicting Pestilence

by Kathy Kelly, published on LA Progressive, December 4, 2023 World Health Organization now says disease could be even deadlier than airstrikes in Gaza. Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the sound of children screaming. In a video posted on X (formerly known[…]

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54th National Day of Mourning Demands: ‘Land Back, from Turtle Island to Palestine!’

By Workers World Boston Bureau posted on Workers World, November 28, 2023 Plymouth, Massachusetts ~Over 2,000 Indigenous people and their supporters — with thousands more in attendance via live stream — shut down business as usual in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 23 to commemorate the 54th National Day of Mourning (NDOM). Here — where millions of tourist dollars depend on[…]

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The Issue is Not Racism But the Pan European White Supremacist Colonial/Capitalist Patriarchy!

by Ajamu Baraka,  published on Black Agenda Report, November 15, 2023 Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old. Presentation at the 30th Anniversary of the Black Community Process (PCN), Bogota, Colombia, November 12, 2023 The modern concept of race and what became[…]

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