Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

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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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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