Thursday, September 4, 2025

Saudi bombing and blockade are devastating Yemen, and Yemenis know the US bears responsibility

U.S.-backed Saudi aggression is stoking anti-American sentiment in Yemen.

‘Happy Labor Day everyone!’: Millions lose unemployment aid on worker holiday

The loss of federal unemployment assistance at this moment "will be a double whammy of hardship" for the unemployed and their families.

Chicago cop found guilty of murdering teen on video

Finally, a bit of justice for Laquan McDonald.

Women in Congress push back against misogyny

“We have every right to do our jobs and represent our communities without fearing for our safety.”

Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State

Citizens talk about the issues of race and racial violence without taking into consideration the economic, bureaucratic, and political systems of exploitation involved. Police brutality and racism cannot be solved unless we turn to the issue of structural racism.
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Political jujitsu: Now’s the time for Medicare for all

Either expensive health care for the few, or affordable health care for the many.

Memorial for lynching victims a first step toward reconciliation

It offers a place of reckoning for generations of racial trauma.

Obama should have repealed the 1917 Espionage Act in addition to commuting Manning’s sentence

Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.
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Big tech platforms have had a “profound negative effect on democracy.” Is it time...

“People of all political stripes understand that there’s a problem here.”

50 Years After Murder, Malcolm X Remembered by Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz and Friend A....

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, Democracy Now speaks to his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, and friend, A. Peter Bailey who were both present inside the Audubon Ballroom the day Malcolm X was shot dead.