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 ›
Racism
Detroit Pigs Murder 7-Year-Old Girl
Aiyana Stanley Jones, age seven, was struck in the head and neck by a cop’s bullet while laying on a couch in her family home. Surprise, surprise, the murdered child just happened to be black. Detroit police raided the Jones… Read More ›
Ex-Prisoners Have Rights Too
The Ghetto as Social Control The concrete jungle in America goes by many names—the “inner-city,” the “ghetto” and “hood.” To a few million Americans this is what we call home, and not just Black and Latinos, but whites and Asian… Read More ›
Racial Profiling Now Legal in Arizona
Events in Arizona The American people learned Tuesday that the state of Arizona has passed a bill, now sitting on Governor Janice Brewer’s desk. This bill, should it become law, would result in the racial profiling of all Hispanics and… Read More ›
Confederate History Month: The Right’s Whitewashing of a Racist Regime
Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia declared this April as Virginia’s “Confederate History Month.” Virginia is not the first state to practice this. The states of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Georgia all commemorate the Confederate States of America. The… Read More ›
Videotape of Imperialist Massacre Revealed
Tape Released, CIA Seeks to Shut Down Website On Monday April 5, 2010, the website Wikileaks.org released a video showing American forces firing at civilians and journalists on a Baghdad street. On the lead-up to the leak, the American Intelligence… Read More ›
Tea Party Protesters Show True Colors
“Isolated Incidents?” So it seems that, if one is to believe the endless parade of chattering right-wing pundits on TV, racism is “not a major ideological component” of the Tea Party. Many dozens of supporters have gone on the television… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part III of VI: How Beck Turned Marx Into A Common Racist Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg cite examples of Marx’s supposed “anti-Semitism” in connection with Hitler. What Goldberg is referring to are Marx’s words on the economic status of… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part I of VI: Beck’s Countless Lies about America & the Founding Fathers On January 22nd 2010, another hardened reactionary tried to attack the history of leftism and Marxism and (surprise) managed to bring nothing new to the table at… Read More ›
MLK Day: A Dream Lost
Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›
Facts About Immigration & Joe Arpaio’s Attack on the Latino Community
Events in Maricopa The Maricopa County Sheriff’s office arrested 27 people Monday night in Arpaio’s 13th anti-immigrant raid in the Latino Community. The Sheriff’s office says 18 of these arrests were of undocumented immigrants. The two-day raid utilized helicopters and… Read More ›
Half of US Children, Most Black Children, Will Use Food Stamps
The results of a recent Cornell University study are shocking: 90% of black children, 90% of children in single-parent homes and nearly 50% of American children as a whole will eat meals provided for by food stamps at one point… Read More ›
Review of “District 9″
Spoiler-Free The plot of District 9 revolves around an alternative history of the 1980s in which an alien ship becomes stranded on Earth, leaving humanity and along with that, imperialism, to deal with the alien visitors. Throughout the film we… Read More ›
On the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. & America’s Unhealthy Obsession With the Police
In one of his comedy routines, Dave Chappelle explained why he was afraid to call the cops, even if his own house had been robbed. He acts out this scenario to his audience. Upon seeing Dave, a black man living… Read More ›