by Enrique Guerrero-Lopez and Adam Weaver/Truthout As various segments of the US radical left begin planting their flags in the electoral arena, Syriza’s recent fall from grace should serve as a stark reminder of the unfulfilled promise of the electoral road to socialism. Syriza’s rise to power elicited […]
by DeRay McKesson/The Guardian Mike Brown should be alive today. He should be home from his first year at college, visiting friends and enjoying summer as he prepares to return to campus. The movement began one year ago as Brown’s body lay in the street of Canfield Drive […]
by Russ Walsh/Russ on Reading In case you missed it, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, erstwhile presidential candidate, declared on CNN Sunday that teachers unions need a “punch in the face.” Faced with declining numbers in the polls and with being out-bullied by Donald Trump, Christie has […]
by Jalil Muntaqim/FreeJalil.com To lose a child under any circumstances is heart-wrenching for any parent. This is especially true when it is done by a representative of government. When the police kill, particularly a child, more specifically a man-child of color, it raises many questions about justification. As […]
by Colin Wilson/originally published at rs21 Seventy years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author recalls a visit to Hiroshima where he met a survivor. When I visited Hiroshima in 2003 what initially struck me was the […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Occupy Entitlement Written off like a disobedient child; a subversive flare-up of Millenial angst. Left for dead by many outside of the movement, the ones who failed to engage in it. Who failed to touch it. The dying light of the Occupy movement […]
by Shahd Abusalama/Guest/Palestine From My Eyes Overnight on Friday, 31 July, a group of masked Jewish settlers threw firebombs through a window of the Dawabsha family house in Kufr Douma, near Nablus. They fell in the bedroom where the whole family had been sleeping peacefully, setting the house […]
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