US Politics

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“Anonymous” Shows Split in Ruling Class
10 Sep 2018
The “Anonymous” article in the New York Times is more evidence of “a real split in the upper levels of the US ruling elite,” said Dr Gerald Horne, professor of history and Afr
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Evolving Tactics of the National Prison Strike
03 Sep 2018
The tactics of imprisoned activists have evolved since the prison strike of 2016, which was brutally repressed, especially in Georgia, said Bruce Terpstra, of the Incarcerated Work
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Cell Phones Pull Back Curtain on Prison Conditions
03 Sep 2018
Prison officials across the country are apoplectic over inmate access to cell phones, partly because “it allows people that are incarcerated to serve as reporters, to broadcast firsthand what they
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Panthers Struggled for “Global Justice”
03 Sep 2018
The Black Panther Party “saw the world through a lens of global justice,” said Robyn Spencer, author of the new book, The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black
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Democrats Must Be Confronted on Militarism
03 Sep 2018
The Women’s March on the Pentagon, scheduled for October 20 and 21, “is an important part of ‘Anti-war Autumn’” activities, said Ajamu Baraka, director of the Black Alliance for Pe
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Ugandan Police Beating of Bobi Wine is Sign of Desperation
27 Aug 2018
The police beating and arrest of Bobi Wine, the wildly popular musician and Ugandan parliamentarian, is a major “embarrassment” for the U.S., which has supported strongman Yoweri Museveni’s regime
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Gandhi and Fanon’s Shared Goals
27 Aug 2018
Whether by armed struggle or mass nonviolence, liberation movements seek to “elevate the colonized people to their proper status among humankind, and give way to a more equitable future, said
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Humanity Can Be Saved If We Listen to the Indigenous Peoples
27 Aug 2018
Climate activists should stop saying “the world will end, and we’re beyond the turning point,” said Macarena Gomez-Barris, author of The Extraction Zone: Social Ecologies and D
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21 Aug 2018
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Aretha Rejoins “Celestial Choir”
20 Aug 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal on the passing of Black music great Aretha Franklin: “She returns to the celestial choir after 76 summers of earthly life.”