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Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams’ defense of Penny and law enforcement power being
A succession of U.S. presidents have been committed to regime change in Syria. That long-held goal has been achieved in
By Jonathan Power At first, I was a bit surprised to find that the English admonition, “Good fences make for good neighbours” exists in many other...
“If you have a piece of crack cocaine, no bigger than this quarter that I’m holding in my hand, one quarter of one dollar, we passed a law through...
“More directly, the Black electoral imperative to seek protection from the Republican/White Man’s Party reduces African Americans to an...
While every Donald Trump utterance is given great attention and dissected for proof of nefarious intent, dangerous actions taken by Joe Biden are...
By Alon Ben-Meir The Democrats’ stunning electoral defeat will be debated for months if not years. Recrimination and finger-pointing will abound....
“F*** ‘em. I hope they are all deported. And I can’t wait until Netanyahu gets the green light to turn Gaza into a parking lot.” “Can’t...
On the evening of November 8, 2016, this columnist realized that Hillary Clinton had lost. She hadn’t yet conceded, the polls were still open on the...
All eyes have quite rightly been on Palestine for the past year. Joe Biden’s maniacal pact with Israel has killed an estimated 200,000 people, and...
The U.S. edges closer to hot war and continues aiding and abetting a genocide. Censorship and war propaganda are necessary
The indictment of New York City mayor Eric Adams is the latest example of moribund Black politics. Rich donors and
“When we engage in electoral politics, it can’t be just because a particular individual is running for office, it is to enlarge the terrain of...
It is strange for this columnist to see Springfield, Ohio become a focus of national news stories. Springfield was my late mother’s hometown and...
The United States’ decline under oligarchic rule is brutally exposed every four years, as the duopoly parties differ on fewer issues and agree that...
The Green Party is the left party most successful at gaining ballot access across the country. It is unusual for a non-duopoly formation to be on the...
‘What does democracy mean if elections are ignored and journalists are charged as criminals? That is the case today, as
The allegation that only Trump threatens democracy is a useful ruse for the Democratic Party. They continue their support for
Kamala Harris stands with the corporate democrats who are committed to austerity and imperialism. No one needs to wonder what
The United Kingdom has recently experienced a wave of rioting and blame is placed upon people referred to as “the far right.” The individuals who...
In the year 2023, an estimated 1,352 people were killed by police in the United States, meaning that 3 or 4 people were killed daily on average....
The right wing counter-revolution has been going on for more than 50 years. The Powell Memo was a 1971 directive from soon-to-be Supreme Court...
The sudden announcement that Julian Assange would be freed after a plea agreement came as a great and very welcome surprise. Assange and the...
It is clear that Congressional Black Congress Member Jamaal Bowman succumbed to the power of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC)...
The United States ended conscription, the military draft, in 1973. The all volunteer military came about because of mass protest over the Vietnam war....
The Israeli government could have freed everyone that was held by Hamas since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, if it had continued the...
“No one is above the law.” – Joe Biden ““The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous”...
By Jonathan Power The greatest American foreign affairs columnist since Walter Lippmann was William Pfaff of The International Herald Tribune. He...
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you all for this opportunity to address the Security Council and to provide a briefing on the issue of peace as it...
The Morehouse College class of 2024 has a historic opportunity to tell Joe Biden and the world that millions of
John Chell is Chief of Patrol of the New York Police Department (NYPD). Chell has made news lately because of his threatening social media posts...
On a daily basis the corporate media, members of Congress, and courtier pundits who refuse to do a basic internet search, make reference to the...
Good afternoon and power to the people! Thank you all for joining us here at this United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) conference ,...
Every war crime committed by the state of Israel, no matter how horrific, is logical if one considers a few basic facts. First, one of Israel’s...
By Jonathan Power Once again, the media is presenting us with images of the mother of all famines — stretching from Yemen to Somalia, to Sudan and...
The Biden administration deserves no praise for abstaining from a United Nations Security Council resolution which demands that Israel observe a two...
“We want Congress to tell TikTok that their time is up. We’re done with the lies the platform spreads about the Jewish people and Israel.” The...
The State of the Union address exemplifies everything that is wrong with this country. Trivialities are spun as being important,
In December 2023, the United States processed a record 300,000 asylum seekers at the southern border with Mexico. This wave of desperate people from...
“From my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I am concerned, it is high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for...
What is democracy? Dictionaries provide a variety of meanings but in general, they define it as “rule by the people,” which includes the...
“There are people who say, ‘We would like choice.’ To those people I say yes but now is not the time. Like I would like to be a size 6. Ok but...
On December 29, 2023, the Republic of South Africa charged Israel with violating the United Nation’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of...
Face the Nation Host Margaret Brennan: Thasin, you did change your mind on the president. Why? Thasin: I was a champion for Joe Biden until...
By Alon Ben-Meir * Although the two-state solution has been all along the only viable option that best serves Israel’s national security and...
On January 11, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearing the Republic of South Africa’s charge of genocide made against the...
By Jonathan Power Is what you see what you’ll get? President Xi Jinping of China is poking the US in the eye again. China, he suggests, is all set...
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. His birthday became an official federal holiday in 1983 and predictably the...
Jennifer Bates is an organizer with the BAmazon Union , the effort to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. BAmazon Union is...
It is a bad sign when the leader of the United States Senate sounds something like an actress with bizarre