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“The 2020 presidential election is between Black Lives Matter, a multiracial democracy — and white supremacy. The outcome is open.”
President Donald Trump knows what many liberals and some on the left do not: a majority of whites vote “whiteness” over their economic self-interests. Why? When Blacks (...)
The Republican National Convention centered on two interrelated themes.
One was adulation of Trump as the strong leader who can save the county, and he must hold onto power come what may.
The other was his means to do this – blatant racism through mobilizing an assault on the Black Lives (...)
Internet Research Agency also hired real, unwitting freelance reporters in operation Facebook has removed
The Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 US election created a fake leftwing news publication, staffed it with fake editors with AI-generated photos and hired real freelance (...)
“And I contend that the cry of ‘Black Power’ is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro,” King said. “I think that we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has (...)
BY ALL POLITICAL leading indicators, Donald Trump is taking down the Republican Party to its most shattering electoral debacle in decades. “Presiding,” if that’s a word for anything Trump does, over the entirely preventable health and economic COVID-19 calamity, he’s proving himself willing to (...)
Politics in the United States has always revolved around the issue of race and racism. When a woman is tapped for a top elected office, the vile sexism of white men also spills out.
President Donald Trump once again raised the issue of “birthism” regarding Democratic vice-presidential nominee (...)
The 1980s may have been 40 years ago, but there is no denying that besides big-hair bands and leg warmers, the decade is still defined by Ronald Reagan, the “MTV generation” and a culture of conservatism and corporate consumerism.
In Ohio University professor of history Kevin Mattson’s new book (...)
Trump and the Republicans are planning to sabotage the November election in order to throw it into chaos.
They hope to use this to keep Trump in power and the Senate with a Republican majority.
They plan to do this by two campaigns. One is to undermine the post office to make counting of (...)
In universities and the workplace, the new online call-out culture defines identities in terms of race and gender. But it views class as a personal issue.
Those on the US left seldom come from a working-class background. They are mostly well educated and came of political age in a social (...)
On June 30, 2020 a landmark case was filed by the California Fair Housing and Employment office in the federal court in San Jose, USA, against the IT giant Cisco, Inc. The case, filed on behalf of an employee (John Doe, a pseudonym) of Cisco, charges his immediate supervisors of discrimination (...)
John Sandweg says the deployment of homeland security officials is a ‘manufactured crisis’ stemming from ‘a failure of leadership’.
The former acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which works under the Department of Homeland Security, has condemned the Trump (...)
While anonymous federal agents continue their campaign of lawless violent attacks on BLM protesters in Portland, Oregon, causing the protests to grow in reaction, President Trump says he will send more such agents into other cities to wreak havoc.
With his poll numbers dropping, due in part to (...)
Amidst a global pandemic, Third World internationalism offers a framework to connect today’s movements against antiblackness, imperialism and anti-Asian racism.
Sax Rohmer’s 1913 novel, The Mystery of Fu Manchu, captivated readers with its distillation of centuries of Western desire, fear and (...)
Interview with Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins
The Green Party, at a virtual convention completed on July 11, nominated the ticket of Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker to run in the U.S. presidential election in November. To find out more about the candidates and their platform, (...)
How discrimination is integrated into the daily lives of the Indian diaspora still needs to be understood.
What happens to caste when Indians migrate to Western countries? Do their feelings of being born superior or inferior, their belief in the purity-pollution ethic, just melt away? The (...)
While the US has been set ablaze since the end of May 2020 by a multitude of major antiracist demonstrations and the ordinary working people of the world’s top power remain hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic (as of 9 July 2020, in the United States, according to official figures more than 3.1 (...)
Just because some who complain about censorship are hypocrites, privileged elitists, or defensive bigots, that doesn’t mean we should abandon the ideal of robust debate.
I’m a reluctant participant in the debate over free speech and the alleged threat of “cancel culture.” I’ve hesitated to join in (...)
Late May and early June saw the biggest wave of mass rebellion in the United States since the 1960s. Protests erupted in every major city and in all fifty states, demanding an end to racist police brutality. The character of these uprisings has been less like protests and more like rebellions, (...)
The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today.
Four recent polls — including one released this week by Civis (...)
Racial Capitalism and COVID-19
On April 28, 2020, Donald Trump utilized the Defense Production Act to keep meat-processing plants open. As of this writing, twenty-two plants have closed, if only temporarily, after large numbers of workers tested positive for COVID-19. Yet, the number of worker (...)
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