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“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” ‒ Malcolm X, from an (...)
We are now three weeks from the U.S. presidential election as the country sees a worsening of the pandemic, a continued economic crisis, threats of armed violence from the right, and an increasingly erratic President Donald Trump whose own experience with coronavirus leads him—perhaps because of (...)
The American election and the country’s future are once again a question. Early on the morning of October 2, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and wife Melania Trump had both contracted the coronavirus. Since then it was revealed that others, including the director of the presidential (...)
Voter suppression has become a real issue in recent years. The major discussion has been centered on Democrats correctly accusing the Republicans of disenfranchising people of color and working class people.
But now the Democrats are actively seeking to keep the Green Party presidential and (...)
In August, Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett delivered a key ruling blocking many gig workers from suing in court when tech companies deny them overtime pay. It’s just one in a long history of decisions that favored corporate interests.
Seventh US Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks (...)
More evidence of national hysteria. First it was covid 19 hysterical claims of conspiracy (morphing into the anti-mask denialism), now it’s the wildfires that are supposedly being set by a combination of antifa and Black Lives Matter. Violence is already in the air. And as the author of this (...)
“The 2020 presidential election is between Black Lives Matter, a multiracial democracy — and white supremacy. The outcome is open.”
President Donald Trump knows what many liberals and some on the left do not: a majority of whites vote “whiteness” over their economic self-interests. Why? When Blacks (...)
The Republican National Convention centered on two interrelated themes.
One was adulation of Trump as the strong leader who can save the county, and he must hold onto power come what may.
The other was his means to do this – blatant racism through mobilizing an assault on the Black Lives (...)
Internet Research Agency also hired real, unwitting freelance reporters in operation Facebook has removed
The Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 US election created a fake leftwing news publication, staffed it with fake editors with AI-generated photos and hired real freelance (...)
“And I contend that the cry of ‘Black Power’ is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro,” King said. “I think that we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has (...)
Joe Biden began his speech to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination with a quote from the civil-rights radical and Black revolutionary Ella Baker: “Give people light and they will find a way.” Though Baker may have been commenting on her particular approach to organizing, Biden used the line as (...)
BY ALL POLITICAL leading indicators, Donald Trump is taking down the Republican Party to its most shattering electoral debacle in decades. “Presiding,” if that’s a word for anything Trump does, over the entirely preventable health and economic COVID-19 calamity, he’s proving himself willing to (...)
Politics in the United States has always revolved around the issue of race and racism. When a woman is tapped for a top elected office, the vile sexism of white men also spills out.
President Donald Trump once again raised the issue of “birthism” regarding Democratic vice-presidential nominee (...)
The 1980s may have been 40 years ago, but there is no denying that besides big-hair bands and leg warmers, the decade is still defined by Ronald Reagan, the “MTV generation” and a culture of conservatism and corporate consumerism.
In Ohio University professor of history Kevin Mattson’s new book (...)
Trump and the Republicans are planning to sabotage the November election in order to throw it into chaos.
They hope to use this to keep Trump in power and the Senate with a Republican majority.
They plan to do this by two campaigns. One is to undermine the post office to make counting of (...)
In universities and the workplace, the new online call-out culture defines identities in terms of race and gender. But it views class as a personal issue.
Those on the US left seldom come from a working-class background. They are mostly well educated and came of political age in a social (...)
On June 30, 2020 a landmark case was filed by the California Fair Housing and Employment office in the federal court in San Jose, USA, against the IT giant Cisco, Inc. The case, filed on behalf of an employee (John Doe, a pseudonym) of Cisco, charges his immediate supervisors of discrimination (...)
John Sandweg says the deployment of homeland security officials is a ‘manufactured crisis’ stemming from ‘a failure of leadership’.
The former acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which works under the Department of Homeland Security, has condemned the Trump (...)
While anonymous federal agents continue their campaign of lawless violent attacks on BLM protesters in Portland, Oregon, causing the protests to grow in reaction, President Trump says he will send more such agents into other cities to wreak havoc.
With his poll numbers dropping, due in part to (...)
Amidst a global pandemic, Third World internationalism offers a framework to connect today’s movements against antiblackness, imperialism and anti-Asian racism.
Sax Rohmer’s 1913 novel, The Mystery of Fu Manchu, captivated readers with its distillation of centuries of Western desire, fear and (...)
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