Spain’s foreign minister and former president of European Parliament Joseph Borrell has confirmed United States President Donald Trump suggestion that Spain build a wall across the Sahara Desert to tackle the Mediterranean migration crisis. When Spanish diplomats pointed out that the Sahara stretches for 3,000 miles, Trump shrugged off the skepticism. “The Sahara border can’t…
Category: RACISM
A Concise History of the Repression of Black Protest at HBCUs
Dr. Matthew Quest 1960s era protests at Howard University (left) and Texas Southern (right) The greatest thing about HBCUs are the toiling students fighting for justice on these campuses. Not the college presidents, boards of trustees, the administrators, teachers, or coaches. It is the students who, under adversity of both institutional racism and the duplicity…
American Fascism
Rob Urie From Whence ‘We’ Came Fascism is a loaded topic for Americans. The term is usually put forward as oppositional, as the flip side of representative democracy, e.g. authoritarian. Left unaddressed is whose interests’ American representative democracy represents. Twenty years of research by political scientist Thomas Ferguson strongly supports the conclusion that it is…
9/11 Legacy: Two Contending Fascisms
Glen Ford Two fascisms compete for popular support in the US. One is blatantly racist, the other offers a devil’s bargain that demands Black people accept austerity and war. Both must be fought. “The Clinton-Pelosi fascists invite Black people to fully participate in their own destruction — and to feel honored at the invitation.” 9/11…
Hate and Hope
Victor Grossman Berlin Bulletin No. 152, September 8, 2018 Defend Europe March with Other Neo-Nazi Organizations in Chemnitz The events in the Saxon city of Chemnitz were truly frightening. The sight of thick-skulled, Nazi-tattooed thugs growling threats as they stormed through the city center, chasing and beating up presumed “foreigners,” unfriendly journalists or any other…
Criminal Alliance Between Imperialism, Zionism and Wahhabism
Pablo Jofre Leal Translated by Internationalist 360° The aggression against the Yemeni people has surpassed all the levels of cruelty and actions guided by the hatred, ambition and perversion that a monarchical regime like that of Saudi Arabia and the extremist world view that sustains it can execute. Criminal unrest that is supported, not only…
