The US Firebombing of Wuhan, Part 1
By VT It may have cost 40,000 lives, but the US firebombing of the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 1944 is one of the least known chapters of World War 2. Here is a […]
July 4 Glorifies the US Military — a Force With White Supremacy at Its Core
BYRory Fanning, Truthout In his “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July” speech, Black abolitionist Fredrick Douglass highlighted the gross contradictions of a country that claimed to celebrate freedom and independence while embracing slavery. […]
Rehabilitating Rumsfeld, Erasing Empire: On All Those U.S. War Crimes in Iraq
BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Photograph Source: Helene C. Stikkel – Public Domain Former Bush Administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s death was accompanied by many of the apologies for state crimes that we’ve come to expect from […]
The Resistance Remains Hollow: The Weimar Ways of the Dismal Democrats
BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The Republican Party – described by Noam Chomsky years ago as “the most dangerous organization on Earth” – is now a fascist party (I will develop this […]
Native Genocide, Native Liberation
BY EVE OTTENBERG Image from the cover of Red Nation Rising The scope of violence against Native people in the United States is truly staggering. In fact, it would be safe to say the historical genocide […]
Where is Socialism in Venezuela? Lessons from the Cultural Revolution
BY CHRIS GILBERT The Cultural Revolution in China raised a number of key questions about the construction of socialism and attempted (albeit with limited success) to solve them. For that reason, its legacy remains relevant to the […]
Secret Footage of ExxonMobil Lobbyists Sparks Calls for Congressional Action
BYJessica Corbett, Common Dreams While ExxonMobil’s decades of sowing public doubt about climate science and the impact of fossil fuels have provoked various lawsuits, secretly recorded videos released Wednesday expose how the company continues to fight against U.S. […]
After Trump Blocked UN Inquiry of Racist Violence, NGOs Are Conducting Their Own
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs Shortly after the public lynching of George Floyd, the U.S. Human Rights Network and the ACLU organized an international coalition of more than 600 […]
Calling Chauvin a “Bad Apple” Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs As the murder trial of Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd proceeds, the prosecution will try to portray the defendant as a “bad apple.” […]
Commission Finds Anti-Black Police Violence Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs On April 27, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States issued its long-awaited report […]