Carlos Aznarez Eugenics protest, circa 1971. (Southern Conference Educational Fund via UCLA) This August 9, the world remembers with pain the International Day of the United States’ Crimes against Humanity. The list of crimes of all kinds committed by the various governments of the United States exceeds all estimates. Especially when it comes to explaining…
Category: GENOCIDE
Hiroshima as a Spectacle of Genocide
Telma Luzzani The picture of a man, with his back turned, watching the devastation, scared. Stone over stone, he sees only death. It was August 6, 1945, at the time of the morning when there were more people in the street. Unexpectedly, an atomic attack raised the temperature to 3,000 degrees Celsius and everything burned…
“We Charge Genocide”—Forerunner at UN of Black Lives Matter
W. T. Whitney, Jr.The police killing of George Floyd on May 25 provoked demonstrations worldwide. The United Nations Human Rights Council on June 17 debated a draft resolution introduced by the “African Group” of nations that condemned “structural racism endemic to the criminal justice system in the United States.” The African nations were responding to…
Honduras: Five “Disappeared” in Triunfo and the Expulsion of the Garifuna People
With the disappearance of five young people from the community of Triunfo de la Cruz, taken from their homes in the early hours of Saturday, July 19, by alleged agents of the Police Department of Investigation (DPI), the aggressions against leaders and members of the Garifuna communities have been repeated once again, and have intensified…
Frei Betto: A Genocide Is Taking Place In Brazil
Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, philosopher, liberation theologian, and Dominican friar. Involved in Brazil’s emancipatory struggles for decades, Betto was imprisoned for four years under the Military dicatatorship for helping its victims escape abroad. More recently he has been heavily involved in the battle to eradicate hunger in his country. He has made a personal…
Israeli Atrocities On the Rise
Abhijan Choudhury Two recent reports released by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA oPT), on June 18 and 24, describe the blatant human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian population in the three occupied Palestinian territories…
Colombia: “The People Confront the Continent’s Most Violent Oligarchy”
Carlos Aznarez People marched in the southern neighborhoods of the Bogota and in the center to protest the national and local government’s management of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Johan González – Colombia Informa | Peoples Dispatch In order to deepen the information about what has been happening in Colombia since the arrival of a large…
The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population “Police killings and impunity are part of a pattern of racist human rights abuses.” Hundreds of people are unnecessarily dying every day with African Americans representing a disproportionate number of…
America: Imperial Decadence and Biological Warfare
Stella Calloni The great mobilizations in New York and throughout the United States began as an outburst of the African-American population in a mass racial protest after the death of George Floyd, an unemployed man who was atrociously murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, which served as the breaking point and brought into the streets…
U.S. Police and Military Commit State Sponsored Murder and Terror Worldwide
All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) History of the Police Make no mistake, the brutal images of police murders that frequently surface on our social media and in the news are not anomalies and are not accidental. These images represent a continuation of an ongoing, deliberate, systematic form of violence which the United States settlers…
Socialism and Dignity: We Don’t Need Their Cops
Stephen Millies When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary. That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of equals doesn’t need armed thugs with badges. Billionaires and banksters didn’t require protection since these parasites didn’t exist….
“I Can’t Breathe, Please, Please!”: The Martyrdom of George Floyd
Carla Stea Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or…
