Lydia McCaskill, a masters and doctoral student a North Carolina Central University and activist firebrand in her hometown of Gastonia, proposes a process of “de-white supremification” in the US, similar to “de-Nazification” of Germany after World War Two. “The purpose would be “to remove any, every and all things that represent or signify any type…
Category: GENOCIDE
Whitewashing the Destruction of Libya
Nu’man Abd al-Wahid The British, both left and right, simply do not want to acknowledge the role their government played in destroying Libya and the attendant migration crises. “The destruction of Libya caused the first migration flow across the Mediterranean into Europe.” Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe identifies three waves of migration to western Europe…
The Long, Disgraceful History of American Attacks on Brown and Black Women’s Reproductive Systems
Natasha Lennard In front of a small crowd of activists and media, city workers remove a statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon and medical pioneer in the field of gynecology, from its perch on the edge of Central Park on April 17, 2018 in Harlem, New York. Forced sterilization of poor women of color…
Israeli Human Rights Group Highlights How Israel Makes Fishing in Gaza Deadly
Kathryn ShihadahThe Gaza Strip, just six miles wide, boasts a twenty-five-mile coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. Fishing is a natural industry in such a location and as recently as 2000, was a lucrative business for ten thousand Gazans. Today, only about 3,700 remain in the fishing trade – and about ninety-five percent of these live…
Racism, Capitalism: Are Reparations Impossible?
Mireille Fanon Mendès France In December 2014, the UN General Assembly proclaimed in its Resolution 68/237 the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024). This Decade should have aimed at encouraging states to eradicate the social injustices produced by history and to combat racism and racial prejudice and discrimination that people of African descent…
It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
Ann Garrison Photo: In April 1995, Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Army massacred 8,000 Hutus sheltering in an internal refugee camp in Kibeho, Rwanda. Photograph by Paul Lowe. “Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” writes Ann Garrison, “because it has served their interests…
Reformism & Colonial Chauvinism are Enemies of Socialism
Rainer Shea In Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, J. Sakai writes that “While there were many exploited and poverty-stricken immigrant proletarians, these new Euro-American workers as a whole were a privileged labor stratum. As a labor aristocracy it had, instead of a pro- letarian, revolutionary consciousness, a petit-bourgeois consciousness that was unable to…
America is Indefensible
Onyesonwu Chatoyer Note: This article was first published in 2016, when Americans were deciding between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the US presidential election. A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a…
“The Man Who Heals Women” Calls for an International Criminal Tribunal for Congo
Ann Garrison The West lavishes praise on Dr. Denis Mukwege for healing victims of weaponized sexual violence but protects the perpetrators, writes Ann Garrison. “The same traitors who have been acting in collusion with foreign forces for over 25 years.” The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Dr. Denis Mukwege is receiving death threats, and not for…
Plan Colombia and the Spiral of Massacres and Assassinations of Social Leaders
Marco TeruggiMobilization in Cali to demand justice for the murder of five young people in Llano Verde Photo: courtesy of Santiago Vázquez. Reports of massacres follow one after another in Colombia. According to the United Nations, this year alone there have been 40, to which another one was added on August 18, as the murders…
USA: Responsibility for Brutal and Lethal Scientific “Experiments”
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…
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…
