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By Jerome Louison “We gotta put our heads together, and stop the violence.” - KRS One, Stop the Violence Safety. That’s how Black boys in New York say farewell when they respect you. When they appreciate your presence. When they hope to see you again, knowing they might not. Like most slang, it wasn’t constructed or focus-grouped. It emerged. Emerged from the conditions they face, and a deeply…
Pictured: Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, meets US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger in Zurich amid tight security for a summit meeting. (Photo by James Andanson/Sygma via Getty Images) By Yalda Slivo There is a section in Washington Bullets where Vijay Prashad delves into the foundations of the Western self-image. Since reading the book two years ago, I haven’t stopped thinking…
By Matthew John In recent years it has become fashionable to accuse China of economic coercion and domination in Africa - charges that often include dramatic allegations of “colonialism.” This narrative involves claims that China is engaging in widespread “debt-trap diplomacy,” buying up “ vast tracts of African farm land [with] plans to transplant millions of Chinese peasants to live and work on…
By Michael Harrison There is a familiar pattern in American politics: wars are planned in Washington, justified on television, and paid for by people who had no role in choosing them. The bill rarely arrives with the Pentagon’s logo on it. It arrives at the gas pump, in delivery fees, in grocery prices, in airline tickets, and in the quiet anxiety of households trying to stretch one paycheck…
By Shawgi Tell North Carolina is home to many low-performing highly-segregated charter schools (see here , here , and here ). Yet despite lagging academic performance, racial inequalities, and low enrollment numbers , North Carolina continues to create more charter schools, proving once again that charter schools are pay-the-rich schemes created in the name of “choice,” “competition,” and…
By Wayne Kidd The movie begins with a voice seeming to speak into a void: “Yeah, i wanna say something about my moms, man.” The words appear in subtitles on a blank panel. Suddenly, New Afrikan Political Prisoner Shaka A. Shakur appears. He speaks about his mother and his last words to her. Asking his wife to put the phone to her ear, Shaka tells her “You can let go… we going to be all right.” For…
By Brian Rome Republished from Liberation School . A foreign national spoke out against a country he accused of killing his family. After fleeing that country to escape persecution, the U.S. government arrested him and tried to deport him. The U.S. government was protective of its relationship with the foreign country he criticized and wanted to silence him through deportation. It used a…
[Pictured: A Palestinian child runs through Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, West Bank, where violence has been escalating this year. | Palestine 2024 © Oday Alshobaki/MSF] By Peter Linebaugh Republished from Journal of World-Systems Research In 1958 the assistant headmaster did the Bible reading at the morning assembly of the Karachi Grammar School (Pakistan), founded in 1848 by the Church of…
[Pictured: Iran’s Abu Mahdi naval cruise missiles are displayed in a ceremony to mark their delivery to the navy and the Revolutionary Guard navy, in Iran, July 25, 2023 (Iranian Defense Ministry photo.] By Taha Zeinali and Sara Larijani Republished from Monthly Review . The June 2025 US-Israeli military assault on Iran—featuring Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and the US Operation Midnight Hammer…
[Pictured: A Palestinian girl passes by a mural of Ghassan Kanafani in Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, West Bank, May 12, 2018. (Credit: Anne Paq/Activestills)] By Mohamad Kadan "In truth, the only way out of this murky spiral is to believe that giving is acceptable, only for civilized humans... and that taking is undesirable... that living is about offering oneself, with no expectation of…
