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

31 August 2010 The French government is seeking to win support from official European institutions for its racist policy of rounding up and deporting members of the Roma community. At a meeting of ambassadors held at the Hotel Matignon last week, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced that he had... » read this article

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

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

 Sunni Patterson, poet and performer, gives us a heart-stopping message in verse about the injustices committed by the state in New Orleans and the strength and resolve of the people to fight for their dignity and human rights. Sunni is from the Lower Ninth Ward, but like thousands of the city’s residents has been forced... » read this article

An Arab Israeli man has been convicted of “rape by deception” and sentenced to 18 months is prison after having consensual sex with a Jewish woman he had lied to. Sabbar Kashur, a Muslim from East Jerusalem, told the woman that he too was Jewish. The case has raised questions... » read this article

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

Editor's Comment: President Nicolas Sarkozy's expulsion of the Roma (Gypsies) from France is a flashback to 1940 when the Nazis did the same thing. Sarkozy's just doing it in planes instead of cattle cars. How can this be when there is free movement across borders in Europe? His move to... » read this article

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

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

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

In the United States, we have two sets of rules for workers: one that applies to farm and domestic laborers, and another that applies to everyone else. Everyone else gets a 40-hour week, mandatory days off, and other protections. Farm and domestic workers don't. Why the labor-force apartheid? I don't... » read this article

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

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

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

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

Beside my brothers and my sisters, I’ll proudly take a stand. When liberty’s in jeopardy, I’ll always do what’s right. I’m out here on the frontline, sleep in peace tonight. American soldier, I’m an American soldier…” So goes the ringtone of Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce’s (R-Mesa) phone—as performed by... » read this article

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

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

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