Barbara Lee sponsors bill to end war in Afghanistan
Pack her press event Monday, Nov. 23, 12 noon, Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building courtyard, 1301 Clay St., Oakland by Kathleen Wells Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune (NNPA) – U.S....
View ArticleBombing Libya 1986-2011
by Thomas C. Mountain A child killed in fighting between government forces and rebels in Brega on Libya’s coast is laid to rest. In 1987 I was a member of the first U.S. Peace Delegation to Libya. We...
View ArticleCynthia McKinney on President Obama and Libya, Japan and 9/11 truth
by Cynthia McKinney This brief statement, made March 31 at a press conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., between the White House and the Capitol, expands on McKinney’s main story below, under...
View ArticleShut up and play? Patriotism, jock culture and the limits of free speech
by Dave Zirin In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s assassination, the sports world embraced the public eruption of patriotism. From the spontaneous cheers of 40,000 fans in Philly to amped “Military...
View ArticleObama could end Congo’s human catastrophe
by Ann Garrison Congolese refugees in Rwanda, May 2012. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that the number of internally displaced people (IDP) within Congo’s...
View ArticleThe drone wars cometh
by Mumia Abu-Jamal A U.S. assassination drone destroys a neighborhood in Mogadishu, Somalia. – Photo: PressTV For millions of people, who groaned under the gross, lumbering stupidity of the Bush years,...
View ArticleWhite supremacy rising: Monument to KKK founder being rebuilt in Selma, Alabama
by Jean Damu What do you suppose would happen if a group of American Muslims gathered and began to construct a monument to Osama bin Laden? That’s right. There’d be hell to pay. Confederate Gen. Nathan...
View ArticleBenghazi attack: Libya’s Green Resistance did it … and NATO powers are...
US ambassador’s killing had nothing to do with Al Qaeda, Islamist blowback or anti-Islamic video by Mark Robertson and Finian Cunningham Bloody fingerprints were left by a U.S. diplomat in Benghazi...
View ArticleBani Walid pays price for refusing to accept the mark of the beast
by Gerald A. Perreira Abdullah, 12, was severely burned when a missile hit his home. – Photo: Mathieu Galtier It is a year since the brutal killing of Muammar Qaddafi and the installation of NATO’s...
View ArticleFree Lynne Stewart: an open letter to the Center for Constitutional Rights
by Ralph Poynter and Ralph Shoenman Dear Center for Constitutional Rights: We received your appeal calling for urgent support of the Center for Constitutional Rights. The appeal lists those cases and...
View ArticleSusan Rice’s defense of Kagame in Congo puts Obama State Department on the...
by Ann Garrison U.S. President Barack Obama, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice The Obama administration was on the defensive about the U.S. relationship with...
View ArticleRwandan Genocide Commemoration clouded by Rwandan president’s criminality
Following the transcript in English is a French translation by Marceline Nduwamungo of the Womens’ International Network for Democracy and Peace. by Ann Garrison KPFA Evening News, April 5, 2014...
View ArticleOakland City Council postpones vote on WOSP gentrification scheme
Prologis Inc. and California Capital Investment Group spearhead scheme by Lynda Carson Oakland – On July 29, the Oakland City Council surprised observers by postponing a final vote on the West Oakland...
View ArticleDonald Lacy’s historic interview: Gary Webb tells how the government flooded...
‘Superheroes,’ which Donald Lacy calls ‘the most important play written in the last 25 years,’ was inspired by Gary Webb; it runs through Dec. 21 at the Cutting Ball Theater, 277 Taylor St., San...
View ArticleRemembering Dedon Kamathi
by Thomas Mountain Dedon Kamathi, a former Black Panther and Central Committee member of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), passed away at the end of August after suffering a stroke....
View ArticleUganda: ‘A Brilliant Genocide’
by Ann Garrison One hundred million people around the world watched the viral video “Kony 2012.” Its evangelical Christian producers’ mission was to proselytize for the use of U.S. Special Forces to...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn wants to lay the white man’s burden down
by Ann Garrison Jeremy Corbyn – Photo: Peter Nicholls, Reuters I did a Google search for “Jeremy Corbyn” and “Rwanda” on the unlikely chance that Britain’s Labor Party leader had ever said anything...
View ArticlePlausible deniability and sinister bigotry inside Texas prisons
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington “The white cop in the ghetto is as ignorant as he is frightened, and his entire concept of police work is to cow the natives. He is not compelled to answer to these natives...
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