Dear Les, A Black man is beaten to death by White teenagers after they assault him with racist slurs. The attackers tell the man's friends they'll be next if they and "their kind" don't leave town. Then, the attackers are cleared of all serious charges by an all-White jury. We... » read this article

"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the  persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings." - Dorothy Thompson Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opening speech at the 2009 United Nations  World Conference Against Racism, dubbed Durban II, addressed numerous inconvenient  and uncomfortable truths... » read this article

"So be careful, if Obama looks better than Bush, it means you just don’t know how he’s about to screw you. Careful Cuba and Venezuela. And if you’re looking for a black president to finally make America discuss its history of racism, wait a little longer." The World Conference on... » read this article

Kiilu Nyasha is a San Francisco-based journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kiilu hosts a weekly TV program, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, on SF Live (Comcast 76 and AT&T 99), which can be viewed live at www.accessf.org every Friday at 7:30 pm (PST), and rebroadcast Saturdays... » read this article

Editor's Note: In 2003 we joined others, mostly people of color, in Jackson Square to protest the "English Only" rule about to be introduced in Boston's Public School System. The campaign to deny children the right to bilingual teaching was led by Ron Unz, a wealthy and politically-connected California multi-millionaire. Unz' racist, cross-country show demanded... » read this article

Biography of Umm Kulthum http://uncensoredarabwomanblues.blogspot.com/... » read this article

Received from an Axis of Logic who wrote the following comment about this article: "I worked with Muslims over the years. Most were good decent people. They were with me on 9/11 and condemned the WTC attacks. They also got along very well with the Jewish workers. The ADL doesn't want... » read this article

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help. White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and... » read this article

The Anti-Defamation League is a master of deceit. A good example is the recent ADL blast against a conference in suburban Baltimore on August 16, 2008, where I was a speaker. Dedicated to peace and cross-cultural understanding, the meeting was organized by Jamaat al-Muslimeen, a local Islamic group. The ADL,... » read this article

A bizarre new trend is emerging: traditional armed conquests are increasingly less effective, and countries with high birthrates have the edge. What was the most important battle of the late 20th century? You could argue it was the one that took place on the southern border of Morocco on November... » read this article

The following report was published today on the BBC web site. Upon reading it the impression is that a "crime wave" perpetrated by Eastern European immigrants to the UK turned out to be fiction and was fanned by press quotes of senior police officers such as Cambridgeshire's Chief Constable, Julie... » read this article

By Les Blough, Axis of Logic, April 7, 2008 I personally have had two memorable experiences, both negatively related to the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I recount these experiences in advance of an excellent article (below), written by Patrick Martin for World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on... » read this article

William F. Buckley Jr. was evil. He equated Dr. Martin Luther King with Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell. He gay-baited author Gore Vidal on national television. “The literature of women’s liberation is so stupefyingly awful,” he wrote. Yet the corporate media, “liberal”’ and “conservative,” have been gushing out praise for... » read this article

In an opening speech at the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, Martin Luther King read a brief historic paper titled "Humanity and the Importance of Jazz."   Here, in full, are his comments:   "God has brought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create... » read this article

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A US jury convicted a member of white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan of kidnapping and conspiracy on Thursday over the 1964 deaths of two black teenagers in south-west Mississippi. James Ford Seale, 71, faces life in prison in the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee.... » read this article

"The music was co-opted; musicians were signed to contracts, drawn in by money and were set upon with debt as they were made to pay record labels back for producers, equipment, video production and the only way out is to make more records, incur more debt and hope to sell... » read this article

For all his chauvinistic, misogynistic and racist drivel, old man Imus finally got the boot. I can't say I feel particularly bad, considering his confederate-style punditry and his perpetuation of negative imagery of the non-white males our society, but I still think people are missing the point. Racism, bigotry and... » read this article

YOU CAN’T APPRECIATE the raw racism of Don Imus’ hateful characterization of the Rutgers women’s basketball team until you know what they did to him. Nothing! They became “nappy-headed hos” not because of anything they said. It wasn’t anything they had done. The offense that prompted this giant of our... » read this article

A determined outpouring of 40,000 people, stretching 20 city blocks, rallied here on Dec. 16 to denounce the police killing of 23-year-old Sean Bell, an unarmed Black man who died after a hail of 50 police bullets on the morning of his wedding day. The crowd loudly chanted their demand... » read this article