(AP) JERUSALEM – Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families. The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic… Read More ›
by BOB WEBER Recently published historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats. “This was the hardest thing I’ve ever written,” said Ian Mosby, who has revealed… Read More ›
by Robert Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 1998 Here’s what white privilege sounds like: I’m sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about affirmative action in college admissions, which he opposes and I support…. Read More ›
George Zimmerman is a murderer. On February 26, 2012 Zimmerman stalked and shot his victim, 17-year-old High School student Trayvon Martin, unarmed and on his way home from a convenience store. On July 13, 2013 he succeeded in escaping justice… Read More ›
by Marissa Jackson On the morning after the Morning After, the racial tension in this country could be popped with a needle. If the prevailing narrative is to be believed, Black America is furious, outraged and depressed about George Zimmerman’s… Read More ›
It’s been 12 hours since I saw The Lone Ranger, and I still have the darn William Tell Overture stuck in my head. I wonder how long that lasts. It’s like waking up with a Tonto hangover, I guess. I have so… Read More ›
A lifelong champion of Lakota culture. A delegate to the United Nations. A descendant of one of the most important leaders in Native American history. On Friday, those were a few of the terms that family and friends used to… Read More ›
Recently a news story about a McDonald’s worker suing her employer has started making the rounds on the internet. Twenty-seven year old Natalie Gunshannon of Dallas Township (Pennsylvania) found that instead of receiving her first paycheck via direct deposit or… Read More ›
by: ALBERT BENDER Genocide is not too strong a term for what is now happening in South Dakota. The huge, shocking violation of legal and human rights being carried out by the state is tantamount to genocide against the Native American… Read More ›
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
by Mark Tran Report challenges traditional thinking that the west is pouring money into Africa through aid without receiving much in return Africa lost up to $1.4tn in illicit financial flows in 1980-2009, far exceeding money coming in over the same… Read More ›
by Todd Gitlin and Tom Engelhardt Back in the early 1970s, I worked for Pacific News Service (PNS), a small antiwar media outfit that operated out of the Bay Area Institute (BAI), a progressive think tank in San Francisco. The… Read More ›
Fight Back News Service is circulating some quotes from the icon of the South African anti-apartheid movement. The following quotes are from Mandela’s 1990 speech at a Johannesburg rally to re-launch the South African Communist Party. Nelson Mandela: The ANC [African… Read More ›
Over the past week, Brazil has witnessed its largest protests since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. This eruption of mass struggles has exposed, above all, the crisis of revolutionary leadership in the working class. The initial trigger… Read More ›
Today is June 19, or Juneteenth. While the Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, slaves in Texas didn’t find out slavery was over until June 19, 1865, hence commemorating this date as the end of legal slavery in… Read More ›
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