Oddly, the European Union asked questions, but didn’t mention Putin or Russia regarding Navalny’s poisoning.
political repression
Political Snooping: Don’t Let Them Get Away With It!
Governments regularly invoke the “public interest” as the reason for increased police budgets and expanded police powers.
Shredding the Constitution: federal police invade Portland and beyond
With cops of every description on the rampage, resistance is fertile.
Report from Argentina: quarantine, poverty and repression provoke protest
How the government is using the pandemic to collapse the public healthcare system, fire workers, rescue big business, and repress growing protest.
Letters to the editor, April 2020
An update on Mumia Abu-Jamal, and readers weigh in on: popularity of Freedom Socialist, electoral remedies, a post-Brexit message, and military production and the climate.
Julian Assange, the free press, and whistleblowers
The U.S.’ zealous pursuit of Assange is really an attempt to bully, intimidate and threaten” those who expose and protest governments’ war crimes and corruption.
Puerto Rico: Feminists and union teachers key to uprising
This historic moment could go beyond kicking out corrupt politicians.
Anti-union ICE raids
The war on immigrants is a war on all workers.
Partners in crime: Saudi Arabia and USA
The U.S. is deeply implicated in Saudi crimes like the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — or, at best, silent about them.
Red Fawn sentenced
Native American water protector from Standing Rock struggle was forced to take a “non-cooperating plea agreement” and 57-month jail sentence. She couldn’t get a fair trial for the “attempted murder” charge with a lifetime penalty.
