The Killing Continues Since the suspension of the death penalty in Japan in September of 2009, the US is the only developed nation in the world that continues to execute its citizens -- but, perhaps, not for long. The unmasking of the political agenda behind state sanctioned killing during the... » read this article

Apartheid – Israel Builds Racist Colonies On Stolen Palestinian Land & US Taxpayers Pay For It." Apartheid – Israel Builds Racist Colonies On Stolen Palestinian Land & US Taxpayers Pay For It.... » read this article

6 February 2010 As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war. The operation in central... » read this article

(2 reports below) New death squads have arisen to replace Colombia's notorious right-wing paramilitary groups - and they are committing the same acts of terrorism against trade unionists as their predecessors, a prominent US-based rights organisation has warned. Under pressure from human rights groups and Washington, Bogota has overseen the... » read this article

About the Working Paper Palestinians would not be a people displaced, dispossessed and oppressed in 2010 if states and the UN had held Israel accountable for its massive violation of international law and the Nakba over 60 years ago. However, not only governments and the UN, but also business corporations... » read this article

Let all U.S. residents return from Haiti regardless of citizenship! Treatment or evacuation for all needing critical medical attention! Sign the Petition at http://iacenter.org/haiti/jennyreturn Send a message to President Obama, former Presidents Clinton and Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, Congressional leaders,the Congressional Black Caucus, the... » read this article

A new investigation by journalist Anand Gopal reveals harrowing details about US secret prisons in Afghanistan, under both the Bush and Obama administrations. Gopal interviewed Afghans who were detained and abused at several disclosed and undisclosed sites at US and Afghan military bases across the country. He also reveals the... » read this article

Why Militant Struggle? In a January 28 UW Daily article, Keep violence out for fairer budget Rebecca Kuensting attacks the International Socialist Organization (a UW registered student organization) for proposing “militant struggle” to oppose budget cuts and tuition increases. She feels that militant struggle must mean violence, or at least... » read this article

TOWARD THE end of the remarkable new film, Soundtrack for a Revolution, Julian Bond summarizes the civil rights movement as "ordinary people doing extraordinary things." A persistent danger swirls around this history--the danger that the participants will be canonized, effectively placing them beyond the reach of present generations ("They were... » read this article

Thomas Cleaver writes: I met many memorable individuals who stopped by the Oleo Strut coffeehouse in Killeen to see for themselves what was going on with the GI antiwar movement. One such was Professor Howard Zinn, the author of A People's History of the United States, who stopped by one... » read this article

Editor's Note: This article contains 2 reports: first a videotaped interview of 2 Palestinian children; second, a report on birth defects in Palestinian newborns, resulting from the Israeli slaughter in Gaza in 2008 and 2009. - LMB January 28, 2010 Newborn in Gaza with severe defects PNN/ Ramallah. Health professionals... » read this article

A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout with the FBI in October was shot 21 times -- at least once in the back -- and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him, says a local Detroit news report. The FBI has described Abdullah, whose... » read this article

2 February 2010 Ten members of a Baptist Church-affiliated “rescue” group from Idaho have been detained in Haiti, accused of child trafficking for attempting to spirit 33 Haitian children out of the country without any official permission. The group claimed to be taking the children to an orphanage in the... » read this article

Filmmaker Rodrigo Vazquez spent his childhood summers on his father's farm in Paraguay. For his film, This Land is Our Land, he returned to Paraguay to see how the election of Bishop Fernando Lugo in April 2008 and his attempts to redress six decades of corruption, poverty and human rights... » read this article

//   The Honduran coup regime has been forced to reverse a harsh crackdown on civil liberties amidst growing protests for the restoration of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya. But Honduran forces still blocked a large protest march and shut down two media outlets that have criticized the coup... » read this article

Some strands of feminism have a long history of serving as adjuncts of Western imperialism. Today they also enable domestic prejudice. Gore Vidal once mocked George Bush’s idea of democracy promotion as being synonymous with: ‘Be free! Or I’ll kill you’. In a similar vein, some feminists today want to... » read this article

As we near two weeks after the devastating earthquake and terrifying aftershocks in Port-au-Prince and Zacmel, Haiti, we face the inevitable media wall, that closes up, unless a story emerges of such surprise and delight that it's able to shine through.   For the media light, by it's very nature,... » read this article

This is an aerial photo of Gaza, where a 200 foot wide star of David was carved into farmland by Israeli tanks. It's one of  the images contained  in the Goldstone Report. Justice Goldstone himself spoke to students at Yale University this week, and though press coverage of the event... » read this article

Friday, January 1. It is Haitian Independence Day, and I am in a mood to celebrate year two-hundred and six. The stereo blasts a wild, up-tempo, tune. Haitian drums burn! As I dance, I explain to my befuddled husband that this exhuberant song is about a woman who survived a storm. She is stuck up... » read this article

In a three-sentence unsigned order, the United States Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that had found Mumia Abu-Jamal's original death sentence to be unconstitutional. The case has been sent back to the Third Circuit "for further consideration" in light of another decision... » read this article