Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

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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The Red Nation’s Message to the Free Palestine National March on Washington

by Statement by The Red Nation, published on Workers World, November 13, 2023 The following speech was delivered to 300,000 pro-Palestine marchers by The Red Nation co-founder Dr. Melanie Yazzie and was written by members of The Red Nation. The speech is also available in Arabic and Spanish at therednation.org. Video of the speech is posted at The Red Nation’s[…]

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Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking

by Caitlin Johnstone, published in Caitlin Johnstone’s Newsletter, November 13, 2023 One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests. We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss,[…]

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The Palestinian Youth Movement in a Time of War

by Susie Day, published on Socialist Action, October 30, 2023 – An Interview with Kaleem Hawla Kaleem Hawa [photo above] is a young Palestinian writer who has contributed eloquent pieces on art and film to such publications as The New York Review of Books and Art forum. But he has no time for this now. He and his comrades in the Palestinian Youth Movement[…]

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Not Hamas-Israeli Conflict: The Palestinian Cause Belongs to the World

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, October 17, 2023 At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media is now telling us it is a ‘Hamas-Israeli conflict’. But what went wrong? Israel simply became too powerful. The supposedly astounding Israeli victories over the years against Arab armies[…]

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With All Eyes on Gaza, Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Kill Dozens of West Bank Palestinians

by Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, October 13, 2023 While the world watches Israel’s military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles from the government—have killed dozens of Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past week, officials[…]

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The Struggle for Palestine is the Struggle of Working People World Wide

by Shiraz Durrani, published on Countercurrents, October 14, 2023 The attacks by ‘Israel’ on the people and the country of Palestine have increased in intensity in the last month.  Palestinian resistance has once again forced the attention of the world on the plight of a people facing another massacre and a country being destroyed.  At the same time, the Zionist[…]

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The Neocons’ Frankenstein Syndrome in Niger

by Julia Wright, published on Workers World, September 14, 2023 Mary Shelley, who wrote “Frankenstein,” published in 1819, was an English abolitionist born to radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and anarchist political philosopher William Godwin. Not only did she advocate the end of slavery, but in her father’s drawing room she overheard discussions about the beginning and the ending of biological[…]

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Musing from the Margins #3; Their Crimes are Coming Home Again

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 113, 2023 Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on September 11, Haiti, white supremacy in Biden’s Ukraine policy, the criminalization of dissent, and other issues. September 11. Less than two years after the infamous “Powell Memo” that called the capitalist rulers to action to protect their system by launching a[…]

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John Pilger on the Coming War. Speak Up, Now

By John Pilger, May 01, 2023 In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to[…]

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