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‘it’s the South’: Harris County sends 15 times more Black men to death row than white
Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says.
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In defense of historical memory against imperialism
“As Africans living in the belly of the beast of imperialism we recognize that our domestic struggle against police terrorism, super exploitation, and domestic colonization are themselves part of the larger anti-imperialist struggle of the underdeveloped world.”
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SPEECH: A Challenge to Artists, Lorraine Hansberry, 1962
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’ rights.
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Israel lobby and its media enablers threatening academic freedom on campus
Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.
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Malcolm X assassination: Former security guards reveal new details pointing to FBI, NYPD conspiracy
On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part of a conspiracy to remove his protection before he was killed.
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NECESSITY: A two-part documentary series on climate resistance
Grounded in people and places at the heart of the climate crisis, ‘Oil, Water and Climate Resistance’ traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil through North America.
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Latest CPI Report : The ‘soft landing’ plane is still circling
For months the mainstream media and Washington Pols have been pushing the metaphor that the U.S. economy is a plane on its final approach to a ‘soft landing’. Soft landing is defined as inflation steadily coming down to the Federal Reserve’s goal of a 2% price level AND does so without provoking a recession.
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U.S’.s extradition of Assange is politically motivated and illegal, High Court hears
The final trial against sending the Wikileaks founder and journalist, who was too unwell to attend court or even participate by video link, to the U.S. began today.
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“Emergent” AI behavior and human destiny
What happens when killer robots start communicating with each other?
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Phony Fani Willis, misguided support, and the Atlanta Plantation
Public reaction to the Fani Willis soap opera is an example of how cynical Black misleadership creates confusion among the masses.
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Lula recalls Brazil’s Ambassador to Israel (+Palestinian Holocaust)
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recalled his ambassador to Israel, Federico Mayer, after the Zionist State declared the Brazilian president persona non grata for comparing the Israeli genocide in Gaza to the Nazi-led holocaust during the African Union summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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California pistachio billionaires funding Israel’s occupation regime
Based on tax records from Lynda and Stewart Resnicks foundation, they’ve given anywhere from $500,000 to $200,000 to the Israeli military every year, with most of it funneled through an outfit called the American Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces.
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Leave Cuba alone
Has Cuba really failed if we do not see, as in the imperial metropolis, entire families sleeping on the streets in the middle of winter or under a scorching sun in the summer, children barefoot and dressed in rags, people rummaging through garbage bins looking for something to eat, or thousands of men and women destroyed by drugs, victims of a society possessed by a cruel individualism which condemns them to wander like zombies through the main cities to feed, with their addictions, the profits of the banking and financial corporations that are the final beneficiaries of drug trafficking, a business of close to a billion dollars annually?
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Eby says the true part about Big Media out loud
A hard line against behemoths such as Bell is needed now more than ever.
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Taiwan elections: U.S. beats the war drums despite the vote
When the election results for Taiwan’s president and legislature were announced on January 13, the U.S. corporate media seemed jubilant.
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Black Liberation and Anti-Imperialism: An interview with Austin Cole
Book Forum Editor, Roberto Sirvent, interviews Austin Cole about his community organizing work and political writing.
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Camilo Torres Restrepo: Priest, revolutionary, and guerrilla fighter
February 15 marks the anniversary of the assassination of Colombian revolutionary Camilo Torres by men led by General Alvaro Valencia Tovar.
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What’s driving the rise in grocery prices–and what the Government can do about it
Skyrocketing grocery prices in America highlight how precarious our supply chains are, giving corporations ample opportunity to take advantage of consumers in the midst of minor supply shocks and major global crises. Unless we aggressively confront climate change, corporate consolidation, and profiteering, food prices will remain high and continue to climb.
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How Canada benefits from instability in Ecuador
Ottawa appears largely unconcerned by Ecuador’s social and institutional decay.
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Herbert Matthews’ great interview, sixty-six years later
“Without the press, Fidel Castro would be no more than an outlaw… isolated and ineffective,” said Herbert Matthews, who, as a profound connoisseur of Cuban and Latin American affairs, suspected that behind the iron censorship ordered by Batista in Cuba, there was a well-kept secret that was waiting to be told.