Trump’s cancellation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a cruel and cynical blow to 800,000 undocumented young people. It holds long-time resident youth as political hostages in order to get a dysfunctional and opportunistic Congress to authorize more crackdowns on border security, more ICE raids, and more deportations. Meanwhile, losing drivers’ licenses, work… Read more »
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Editorial: Stop the witch-hunts against anti-fascists!
Most people were thrilled at the immense protest against fascists and Nazis and KKKers that swept the country after Charlottesville. But the U.S. government was not pleased. It doesn’t like masses of people in the streets challenging its politics. The Department of Homeland Security has already classified antifa (the anarchist wing of the anti-fascist movement)… Read more »
Time to defy sexual and political predators
The choice between an establishment feminist warmonger and a racist, woman-defiling bankruptcy expert is no choice at all. Watching Donald Trump stalk Hillary Clinton on stage during their second debate, I wondered: was he calculating to intimidate or just doing what comes naturally? His misogyny is hard-wired. I abhor Trump’s boasting about his assaults on… Read more »
Food — gotta have it, can’t afford it!
Most of us can only buy cheap, chemical-laden old stuff. Capitalism too is past its “sell-by” date. Begone with both!
Police murder a daily crime
Outraged demands rising for elected civilian review boards with power to prosecute cops.
G20 disruptions — how exhilarating!
“Shut down capitalism” was a telling roar from a hundred thousand in Hamburg, Germany.
Political dissent is our right!
Government criminal charges against inaugural protesters an attempt to muzzle vast opposition.
Blaming Kurds for terrorism in Turkey
Whenever there is a murderous assault on civilians in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attempts to accuse the Kurdish independence movement rather than ISIS, whose atrocities in the region are notorious. After suicide bombers attacked Ataturk airport in Istanbul, killing 42 people and injuring 239, Erdogan hedged, saying that “the bombs that explode in our… Read more »
Warning message from Dallas
The killing of five police in Dallas by a veteran of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was an act of desperation against an enemy — the U.S. police — whose relentless murders of people of color are rarely prosecuted. The two now famous police victims, Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in… Read more »
The Standing Rock fight is for all of us
When a security company set dogs on people challenging bulldozers in North Dakota on Sept. 3, the scalding images recalled similar violence against civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. And just as that Birmingham struggle was a defining moment, so too is the struggle for water and sovereignty by the Standing Rock Sioux… Read more »
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