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Race and Ethnicity
  • Greg Palast , gregpalast.com

    Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet... » read this article
  • Jerry Lanson , Common Dreams

    Once again, what we don't know about the erosion of rights in this country can be as bad as what we do While Americans debate and litigate the Arizona law authorizing search and seizure of anyone police "reasonably suspect" to be an illegal immigrant, U.S. immigration officials on trains and... » read this article
  • Nlna Bernstein , NYT

    August 29, 2010 ROCHESTER — The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens... » read this article
  • Linh Dinh , Common Dreams

    Michael Enright, a 21-year-old college student, slashed a NYC cab driver in the face and neck because this man was Muslim. Enright is being held in a psychiatric ward. If he is mad, then the United States is also insane. Enright's assault merely mirrors what we, as a nation, have... » read this article
  • Les Blough, Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Editor's Note: We originally published this article on March 12, 2009. We are now updating and bringing it to the fore as it relates to current developments with the French builder, Veolia, also referenced among my comments below. - LMB Israel's Racist Rail System. Whom does it serve and who is paying... » read this article
  • Joe Bageant , JoeBageant.com

    Honk If You Love Caviar. How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Chelsea Clinton's wedding, 15K just to rent the air-conditioned shitters -- huge chrome and glass babies with hot water and everything. No gas masks and waxy little squares of toilet paper for those guys. Yes,... » read this article
  • Keith Olbermann / Special Comment , PoliticsNewsNews

    American Fascists Association: "No More Mosques. Period!" It's not about the mosque! It's America's war on "the Other." Five months later, the American political debate -- in a time of crushing 9.5-percent unemployment, record foreclosures and bankruptcies, and climate change linked to catastrophes from Moscow to Pakistan to Iowa --... » read this article
  • Nabila Ramdani , The Guardian (UK)

    Nicolas Sarkozy is most to blame for inciting the kind of brutality that sees immigrant women and children evicted by police A disturbing video showing French police evicting immigrants of African descent is causing an uproar in France. The video shows police dragging away women who were demonstrating against their... » read this article
  • James C. McKinley, Jr. , The Gainsville Sun

    TUCSON — Dr. Bruce Parks unzips a white body bag on a steel gurney and gingerly lifts out a human skull and mandible, turning them over in his hands and examining the few teeth still in their sockets. Bodies are stored in a refrigerated area of the Pima County morgue,... » read this article
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal on death row , Workers World

    Taken from a July 4, 2010, audio column at http://prisonradio.org. Go to www.millions4mumia.org to read updates on Mumia’s ongoing struggle for freedom. The longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate would’ve been a title cherished by Robert Carlisle Byrd, who became, among many other things, a respected historian. Byrd’s beginnings were... » read this article
  • Rami G. Khouri , The Daily Star (Lebanon)

    Editor's comment: As is the case with France and their ban on the burqa, the real issue in this sad tale for Britain is the loss of their national sovereignty to the Zionist establishment in the UK and Israel. The global issue is Israel's aggression and press for war on... » read this article
  • Don Nash in Utah, U.S. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic

    Nothing brings out the worst in xenophobic America like the color of a person’s skin. Oh yeah. America has a tried and troubling history of genocidal ethnic cleansing of ‘colored’ people. For our power-point presentation, let us review the treatment of Native Americans. America’s “First Nations” that are now, well,... » read this article
  • Rob Kall , OpEd News

    I am a Jew and I am outraged and ashamed by the acts Israel has perpetrated. I am not a self hating Jew, not an anti-semite, as some religious extremist Jews have accused me and other Jews who criticize Israel. I am a Jew who knows right from wrong, who... » read this article
  • Bill Van Auken , WSWS

    4 May 2010 The state of Arizona’s enactment last month of a law targeting immigrants for police persecution has reignited a debate within the media and establishment political circles over the status of over 12 million undocumented workers living in the United States. Much of this debate has centered on... » read this article
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World News
  • Bahrain: Ali Abdulemam, blogger and Global Voices contributor arrested
    Ali Abdulemam, a leading Bahraini blogger and Global Voices Advocacy author, was arrested earlier today by the Bahraini authorities for allegedly spreading “false news” on BahrainOnline.org portal, one of the most popular pro-democracy outlets in Bahrain, amidst the worst sectarian crackdown by the...
  • Israel Invited to Join Anti-Nuclear Pact
    VIENNA - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency's inspections, an IAEA report said...
  • Laos and the legacy of Vietnam
    The US gives $3m a year to clear cluster bombs in Laos. For nine years, it spent $2m a day to drop them. We must do more Three million tons of ordnance was dropped on...
  • Fidel Castro addresses first rally in four years
    Fidel Castro has addressed a rally for the first time since handing the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul in 2006.   In a speech at Havana University, Mr Castro warned of nuclear war arising...
  • Pakistan floods and the timber mafia
      Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) Sep 2, 2010 There is a link between deforestation in Pakistan and the massive floods sweeping the country, said an official with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "Had there been...
  • US arrests 370 immigrants in Midwest raids
    31 August 2010 A large-scale police operation resulted in the arrest of 370 immigrants in ten Midwestern states last week. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) coordinated with other federal authorities in conducting the...
  • ACLU Sues U.S. Over Targeted Killing of Citizens
     August 30, 2010 The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government over an alleged policy of killing American citizens who are suspected of terrorism. The lawsuit, filed today in federal court in Washington, argued...
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