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Malcolm X Shabazz et al. v. USA A groundbreaking legal case seeks justice for the family of most iconic civil rights leaders, Malcolm X. In an unprecedented lawsuit filed by his daughters, the Shabazz family is challenging the U.S. government, the City of New York, and several high-ranking law enforcement agencies. At the heart of the case is the claim that state actors, including the FBI and NYPD...

Remembering The Legacy of Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter passed away on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100. His legacy in human rights has left an indelible mark on global diplomacy. Elected in 1977 as the 39th President of the United States, Carter made human rights a central theme of his administration. He believed that as a global power, the US had a responsibility to champion freedom, dignity, an...

We Are the Union: How Worker to Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. The bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. He famously replied, “because that’s where the money is.” We’re interested in the labor movement not only for humanitarian reasons but because that’s where the power is. Union members can withhold their labor and bring the economy to a standstill.  ...

Taxpayers Against Genocide: Lawsuit Filed Against Congress Members For Approving $26.38B In Military Aid To Israel  On December 19, 2024, a coalition of human rights activists and organizations filed a class action lawsuit against California Congress members Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman. The lawsuit alleges that the representatives misused their authority by approving $26.38 billion in military...

Charting A Way Forward: A Billionaire President, Economies and Policies The corporate media has been working to normalize Trump and his cabinet nominees who are waiting in to take the reins of the US government on January 20, 2025. Trump won the popular vote by less than his three predecessors Biden, Obama, and Bush. He lost in 2020 and attempted to stay in power by a coup that failed. But last mo...

U.S. Attorney General Choice: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi Bondi, Florida's first woman attorney general for eight years from 2011-2019, was part of Trump's defense team during his first impeachment trial and supported his false claims of fraud following the 2020 election. She's remained in Trump's orbit since then, continuing to advise him on legal matters. In announcing Bondi as his new ch...

Attacking Those In Academia Who Condemn The Israel-Gaza War All across this country, academic freedom is once again under severe attack. Why?…because at colleges and universities, professors who dare to speak out in defense of the Palestinian people and condemn Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people, are being censored, disciplined and fired. These attacks on academic freedom are no...

Fascism on Trial: Education, and the Possibility of Democracy Fascist Germany’s industrial murder of Jews in Europe 80 years ago has been seared into the consciousness of humankind. Today its a great irony of history that the Israeli government, which claims to be the moral legatee of the holocaust, is carrying out a genocide against millions of Palestinians in Gaza. This is being done with the fu...

The Zionist's Long Term Plan The humanitarian catastrophe Israel has engineered, in Gaza has no president in the modern era, “ Patrick Lawrence recently wrote, in that “Israel hates the United Nations and all it stands for, international law above all, without limit." Last week using American airplanes and bombs, Israel illegally attacked Lebanon and then Syria. It is aiming to get the United Stat...

ACLU Vows To Protect Civil Liberties Today, with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, the nation is preparing for a devastating onslaught of civil rights and civil liberties abuses. Organizing, mobilizing, and resistance is going on all over the country. Within hours after the election, the ACLU made the following announcement.   "Starting on day one, we’re ready to fight for our civil lib...

Donald Trump Elected As The Next U.S. President The election of Donald Trump as our next president exposed a truth about where “we the people” are at. Because there could be no doubt in the minds of those who elected him what Trump intends to do once back in the White House. There was nothing vague about his platform. He made it clear he believes only he and other strongmen—and that’s “strong men”...

Understanding Capitalism The great German playwright, and political figure, Berthold Brecht, observed that to understand fascism you have to understand capitalism, from whence it springs. Today, it is also helpful for us to understand that the rise of fascism in Germany 100 years ago, has parallels we can see now with the rise of fascism in the United States. Prior to World War I, which began in 1...

Special Report: Global Threats To Freedom Of Expression Arising From Gaza Conflict On top of the devastating humanitarian crisis and the issues of genocide and violations of human rights in Gaza and the West Bank, there has been an unprecedented attack on freedom of the press and freedom of expression globally prompted by that war. In August, Irene Khan the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion a...

Today we turn to the status of press freedom in Israel. Since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and during the ensuing war in Gaza ever since, which is now moving into the West Bank, the pressure on journalists who are trying to cover what’s been happening there is increasing… and more dangerous. According to the New York-based Committee To Protect Journalists, the Israel-Gaza war has claimed t...

USPS: Concerns With Louis Dejoy And Election Integrity Free elections can too easily turn into hollow formalities when coercion, manipulation, or biased governance replace voter choice and participation. The United States Postal Service has historically been one of the most trusted government institutions in the United States, with a strong reputation for reliability and nonpartisanship. Until now...

Fascism on Trial: Education, and the Possibility of Democracy Fascist Germany’s industrial murder of Jews in Europe 80 years ago has been seared into the consciousness of humankind. Today its a great irony of history that the Israeli government, which claims to be the moral legatee of the holocaust, is carrying out a genocide against millions of Palestinians in Gaza. This is being done with the fu...

Complicity In Genocide: CCR Case Against The Biden Administration Update Last fall, the internationally acclaimed Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of several Palestinian groups and individuals against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, alleging that Israel's actions in Gaza have am...

Understanding Capitalism The great German playwright, and political figure, Berthold Brecht, observed that to understand fascism you have to understand capitalism, from whence it springs. Today, it is also helpful for us to understand that the rise of fascism in Germany 100 years ago, has parallels we can see now with the rise of fascism in the United States. Prior to World War I, which began in 1...

September 11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The George W Bush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a...