After unarmed, 18 year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by the Ferguson police, the town (just outside of St. Louis, Missouri) erupted. The government responded with even more repression, as these pictures […]
Ferguson erupts
Perspectives for War on Gaza
It is hard to see how Israel’s attacks on Gaza will not escalate. On the one side, it does not seem that Hamas can back down from its demand that the blockade […]
Israeli treatment of African asylum seekers approaches Nazi Germany
52% Israeli Jews agree that African refugees in Israel are “a cancer”; 32% support physical assaults on Africans and African businesses. Politicians openly advocate “concentration camps” for and “gassing” of African asylum […]
Treatment of Africans in Israel
Well worth watching.
Gaza and Israel: A World Turned Upside Down
It seems to be a world turned upside down and inside out. A little boy with half his head blown off, a half dozen boys shelled by an Israeli naval ship while […]
Latest Crisis in Israel
The kidnapping and murder of three Israeli settler teens was criminal in every sense of the word – on both “moral” (whatever that means) as well as political grounds. It strengthens official Israeli […]
Oscar Perez-Giron and the Fight for Justice
Another week, another victim of apparent police murder. Below is a link to a video, along with some commentary/reporting, of one of the latest of these murders – the apparent police murder […]
India: Background to Election of Modi
by Roger Silverman The sweeping electoral victory of the BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi has been greeted worldwide with a mixture of euphoria and alarm. For big business, the justification […]
Tommy Smith & John Carlos
Amazing that this simple act of protest brought about such repercussions. It shows the political role that athletes play in the US and worldwide.
Michael Dunn Trial… The past isn’t past.
Michael Dunn – a respectable murderer Back in the bad old days, white people could kill blacks with complete impunity, especially in the South. Have things really changed? In November of 2012, […]