Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have carried out a number of attacks in recent days targeting local Palestinians and foreign journalists, as well as detaining U.S. Congressmember Ro Khanna during a fact-finding trip. Khanna said that when Israeli forces arrived, they sided with the settlers. “The U.S. government just merrily goes along funding these atrocities against American citizens, not to speak of atrocities against Palestinians who don’t happen to be American citizens,” says Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. “All of this is being done with our tax dollars.”
The beating of Sen. Charles Sumner in 1856 by Rep. Preston Brooks over a speech against slavery sparked a nationwide debate over free speech, political violence and the relationship between the two.
“Don’t look towards the politicians or the elected officials to be your savior,” Jenkins says. “You are your savior. Your people are your savior.” Joshua Scheer Masked white supremacists marching through the nation’s capital on the Fourth of July are disturbing enough. But the deeper danger, anti-fascist researcher Daryle Lamont Jenkins argues, is the political […]
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The Patriot Front’s bold incursions into U.S. cities are a sign of their burgeoning strength and of the weakness of Black movement politics. “Our people, born to this nation of our European race, must reforge themselves as a new collective capable of asserting our right to cultural […]
A year after Trump allocated billions for his immigration terror campaign, deportation agents are amassing historic amounts of military weapons.
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Whatever the disappointments and scandals with the candidates themselves, the Trump administration war on voters, voting and election outcomes is well underway. It is only going to get more contentious, not less. In the last week or so, we have been inundated with reports of rape allegations in Maine leading to withdrawal of Democrat Graham [...]
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