May 27, 2021
Color of Law
Executive Editor
Emanuel doesn’t know the first thing about Japan or foreign affairs, other than his love for war.
President Joe Biden reportedly selected Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff, as his pick for U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Emanuel is…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Israel is back in the news, not so much for its achievements in combating COVID-19, but for its stunning success in increasing the mortality rate of Palestinians, especially children via sophisticated weaponry.
At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
What rules could possibly legitimize the kind of destruction we just witnessed in Gaza, and who would want to live in a world ruled by them?
The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much of the world is also…
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Commentary
Columnist
the Republican attacks on teaching critical race theory and systemic racism in public schools. They reject teaching the truth about the intersection of race and oppression in the origins and development of our nation.
Republicans are quickly upgrading a series of insurrections as a response to the growing influence of ethnic minorities across multiple spheres in American life—education, culture, and…
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Commentary
Columnist
All farmers have been under the gun, at least since the end of World War II, when American agriculture started to become more and more mechanized and in thrall to the giant chemical companies that were busily convincing them that they needed pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers to make their crops grow.
A major American newspaper headlined, “A Windfall for Minority Farmers Divides Rural America” and many of us look at the history of the exploitation and oppression…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Trump’s cult members don't believe in the United States of America, they believe in White people’s land - there’s a huge difference… these people are cut from the same crimson and gray rags as their grandparents.
"This is the most tragic picture of man's inhumanity to man” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made that sharp and poignant observation about African-Americans a half-a-century…
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