Image source Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights legend and leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is murdered, the evening of April 4, 1968 at 6:01pm by an assassinâs bullet outside his room, #306, on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorrain Motel in Memphis Tennessee. This brutal act shocks the conscience of the nation and the…
It is the large crime of multiple dimensions. Spousal abuse. Hundreds of millions of women trapped. Trapped not of their own doing, though every sort of flippant or fierce man, and some women, will turn blue on their room temperature IQ faces stating, drum roll: how can a woman stay in that sort of relationship? she could have left anytime didnât…
It does not pay to be too moralistic in politics. Self-elevation can lead to tripping up. Sermonising even as your stable needs cleaning can enfeeble the argument. But Bidenism, this gaffe-prone ideology currently doing the rounds in a barely breathing administration, has identified the simplest of binaries to work with. In his State of the Union…
On Thursday, President Joe Biden ordered the largest release ever from the US emergency oil reserve in a futile attempt to bring down gasoline prices that have soared to record levels following the Russo-Ukraine War. Starting in May, the United States will release 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil for six months from the Strategic Petroleum…
By Dongsheng News / April 2nd, 2022 Lockdown in Chinaâs most populous city, Shanghai; Huawei communicates an increase of 75.9% in profits for 2021, spurred by increased R&D spending. Dongsheng (Eastern Voices) is an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society. The interest in China is growing everywhere. Yet…
For more terrestrially grounded people, writing about cricket can be seen as an exercise in distant planetary speculation. The Nobel laureate Harold Pinter did not think so, calling this old English game âthe greatest thing that God ever created on earth.â Others might disagree with mild disgust, finding it archaic, jargon heavy and slow. In…
Louisiana HB 568 has been proposed to avoid those seeking to adopt from being scammed, a very worthwhile and needed goal.  Having your hopes and dreams â not to mention thousands of dollars â stolen from you, at a vulnerable time, is devastating and should never happen. However, the solution proposed by House Bill 568, sponsored by Rep. Rick…
By Stephen Joseph Scott / April 1st, 2022 www.stevescottrootsmusic.com #FreeAssangeNow #SayHisName #NoJusticeNoPeace #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #NotMeUs âWe Know They Liedâ tackles the devastation wrought by a corporate duopoly disguised as political parties in the U.S. â false wars driven by greed and avarice; a decimated middle class; and, a justice…
By Roger D. Harris / March 31st, 2022 Alex Saabâs April 6 hearing takes place in the setting of a mercurial world situation, where events in Ukraine may have indirect bearing on his case and on the larger US economic war against Venezuela. ***** In a world where the US believes it makes the rules and the rest of humanity must follow its orders…
The timing of the March 2022 release of this digital streaming documentary could not be more auspicious. For anyone wanting to understand how we arrived at a new Cold War with the second Irish-Catholic Democratic president in U.S. history, Joseph Biden, spewing belligerent absurdities about Ukraine, Russia, and Vladimir Putin, and leading a charge…
© Getty Images / Andrew BrookesThe Russian military has presented documents showing Ukraineâs interest in using drones to deliver weaponized pathogens developed in US-funded biolabs. Names of US officials involved in the biolabs projects, and the role the current US presidentâs son played in the program, were also made public during the special…
âThe water is back,â one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my whole family would start running in all directions to fill every tank, container or bottle that could possibly be filled. Quite often, the water would last for a few minutes, leaving us with…
On 16 March 2022, as Russiaâs war on Ukraine entered its second month, Kazakhstanâs President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev warned his people that âuncertainty and turbulence in the world markets are growing, and production and trade chains are collapsingâ. A week later, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a brief…
Shroud of silence Most of us in Britain do something very similar. In young Israel, Jews still venerate the criminals of their recent past because they and their loved ones are so intimately and freshly implicated in the crimes. In Britain, with its much longer colonial past, the same result is often achieved not, as in Israel, through open cheerleading…
Obscenities occupy the annals of State behaviour, revolting reminders about what governments can do. One of Australiaâs most pronounced and undeniable obscenities is its continuing effort to gut and empty international refugee law of its relevant foundations. Instead of being treated as a scandal, populists and governments the world over have…
The Great Upheaval grew out of their intuitive sense that they needed each other, had the support of each other, and together were powerful. This sense of unity was not embodied in any centralized plan or leadership, but in the feelings and action of each participant. â Jeremy Brecher, Strike! 1972 Although Critical Race Theory is now at the forefront…
On 18 March 2022, I received a letter in my e-mail box from a certain Edward OâReilly, an analyst for NewsGuard, a sort of international Decodex (which awards green or red stickers to news sites, i.e. justifies the censorship of such and such a site), linked to the CIA, NATO and the White House, concerning their analysis of the Donbass Insider site…
I could write a book on why I believe poetry can heal, engage our inner soul and give young and old a voice from which to sing ourselves into being. Even out here on the coast, we have poets gathering at dawn after a long day and night catching fish. Itâs not just another month. National Poetry Month (first organized in 1996) celebrates poetry to…
In a bizarre turn of events Tuesday, Russian and Ukrainian delegations taking part in peace negotiations in Istanbul appeared to have reached a breakthrough. But following a tepid response by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, contemptuously dismissing Russian peace overtures as nothing more than âdelaying tacticsâ meant to âdeceive people and…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead / March 30th, 2022 Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by oursâŠ. 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 short, a people become an audience…
Hewn in to human rights legislation borne of fascismâs decline in the mid twentieth century is a pool of glorious protections of civil liberties and press freedoms. It is deep, but it is not entirely immune from attack. Political opportunists undermine it in regular waves, repressing dissidence in their states and satellite states, even and especially…
The Great Upheaval grew out of their intuitive sense that they needed each other, had the support of each other, and together were powerful. This sense of unity was not embodied in any centralized plan or leadership, but in the feelings and action of each participant. â Jeremy Brecher, Strike! Although Critical Race Theory is now at the forefront…
By Allen Forrest / March 29th, 2022 Allen Forrest is a writer, painter, graphic artist and activist. He has created covers and illustrations for literary publications and books, is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University's Reed Magazine for 2015, and his Bel Red landscape paintings are part of the Bellevue College…
The Totten glacier, East Antarctica. Photograph: Esmee van Wijk/Australian Antarctic Division East Antarctica, often times referred to as âthe final frontier of global warming,â is making headlines once again. A few weeks ago East Antarcticaâs temperatures soared by 50F to 90F above normal. A couple of weeks later East Antarcticaâs Conger…
... When Nicaragua Has Seen Great Progress Under the Sandinistas? [Source: telesurenglish.net] Women Have Made Particularly Significant Gains Under the Second Sandinista Government Since 2006 Women, particularly those in the Third World, often find themselves with limited ability to participate in community organizations and political life because of…
