Actor, rapper & human rights activist Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def graphically demonstrates a little of what Uncle Sam's untried, un-accused, unsentenced but permanently incarcerated prisoners at Guantanamo Bay & elsewhere undergo every day... not for the faint of heart. From the Guardian, where you can find much more real journalistic coverage of the NSA and more.
Those comfy but cowardly pundits and wannabees who solemnly declare that legitimate dissenters of all types have a moral obligation to turn themselves in to the tender mercies of the US government should take heed, or better yet try it sometime themselves. Doubtless MHP and Joy-Ann Reid would be delighted to administer the procedure.
The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on the agenda. They will not address the ICE violations of law and…
“We forget easily in America. We have forgotten the story of the Palmer Raids.”
"For an ICU VA Nurse" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
The grassroots resistance against data centers is about more than zoning. It is the latest front in America’s war against the people over land, sovereignty, and who controls the future.
To understand the violence of contemporary immigration enforcement, one must trace its lineage directly to the slave patrols of the antebellum South—a system founded on racial terror and the…
