Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Linking the struggle at home and abroad Remembering the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: abcnews.go.com The following updated article was originally posted on April 3, 2024. This April 4 will mark the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Civil Rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,…
Boston Protesters gathered outside the Roxbury Crossing T-Station near the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center on March 30 to observe Palestinian Land Day in solidarity with Palestinian-led resistance against imperialism worldwide. Boston’s Roxbury Crossing on Land Day, March 30, 2025.WW photo: Steve Kirschbaum As Aya, a Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) activist, stressed, this year’s…
The Most Censored News with Lee Camp hosted by comedian/ writer/ raconteur/ provocateur/ saboteur Lee Camp is a twice-weekly look at the most censored stories within corporate media hosted by the new video platform Behind the Headlines – a MintPress video project that is 100% viewer supported. Camp both brings to light stories that are…
Wikileaks cofounder Julian Assange will not be extradited to the United States, a London court decided this morning. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that Assange would stay in the United Kingdom over fears for his psychological health. “I find that the mental condition of Mr Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite…
In November 2018, I became aware of the case of Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist and editor imprisoned in Ukraine without trial since May 2018, accused of high treason. Soon after, I interviewed Vyshinsky via email. He described his arrest and the accusations against him as politically-motivated, “an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to bolster…
The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in almost seven years. That this outrage happened in the heart of London,…
LONDON (Opinion) — This morning, the London-based branch of Empire made good on its threat and boldly moved to begin dismantling the vestiges of democracy and press freedom that still remain, vestiges that have allowed people throughout the Western world to pretend that their government and politicians still respect their rights and the rule of…
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — After getting her life back less than two years ago following her release from prison in March 2017, alleged WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning was remanded back into custody this past Friday for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury. A subpoena sent to Manning earlier this year bore the same case…
TEL AVIV – In the “only democracy” in the Middle East, military censors are working overtime to control the content of reporting and keep certain stories hidden from the public. According to a recent report by Israeli journalist Haggai Matar for online magazine +972, Israel’s military censor has notably increased the percentage of articles it partially or…
Carl Bernstein, the journalist famous for exposing details related to the Watergate scandal, was on MSNBC and described the United States Justice Department’s seizure of phone records of reporters as a “matter of policy” that went all the way up to the president. “The object of it is to try and intimidate people who talk…
Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Linking the struggle at home and abroad Remembering the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: abcnews.go.com The following updated article was originally posted on April 3, 2024. This April 4 will mark the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Civil Rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,…
Boston Protesters gathered outside the Roxbury Crossing T-Station near the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center on March 30 to observe Palestinian Land Day in solidarity with Palestinian-led resistance against imperialism worldwide. Boston’s Roxbury Crossing on Land Day, March 30, 2025.WW photo: Steve Kirschbaum As Aya, a Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) activist, stressed, this year’s…
Home » Global » West Asia/ North Africa » Philadelphia: Land Back Day Rally – Stop the Genocide Over 175 people demonstrated in Philadelphia on March 31, taking to the streets from 30th Street Station to the University of Pennsylvania on Walnut Street in recognition of Palestine Land Back Day and to once again demand…
During the partially virtual G7 on February 24, the President of the United States threatened participants with leaving the organization if they published the statement they had prepared. The current situation, with the rapprochement between the United States and Russia, is shaking up the global political landscape. As a result, all intergovernmental institutions are being…
