Canada and the Glorification of Nazism

2022 Russian MFA Report regarding: Situation with the Glorification of Nazism, Spread of Neo-Nazism, Other Practices that Contribute to Fuelling Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance CANADA  Canada is at the forefront of countries that continue attempts to falsify the history of the Second World War. Ottawa has not outlawed the…

Jackson Water Crisis: A Legacy of Environmental Racism

Chi Chi Izundu, Mohamed Madi, Chelsea Bailey, Cooperation Jackson Community water distribution in Jackson, Mississippi (AP Photo/Steve Helber) The city of Jackson is suffering from years of neglect by the state of Mississippi. Residents of the majority Black city need a new water system, but a legacy of racism and antipathy towards their Black led city…

“Water is Dignity”: Residents in Majority-Black Jackson, Mississippi Without Drinkable Water

Natalia Marques Reports reveal that people of color are especially impacted by environmental disasters. Jackson is 82.5% Black, and has been hit with multiple water crises in recent months. The city of Jackson, Mississippi needs billions to fix its chronically broken water system. As residents enter day four of the water crisis, locals tire of…

The US Legal System is at War with the Working Class and Marginalized

Natalia Marques Protesters against police brutality in the Bronx, New York during the 2020 George Floyd uprisings (Photo: Vincent Tsai) Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the US. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people. The very laws and government agencies created to protect the…

Ajamu Baraka: “US Decision-Makers Cannot Handle the End of White Supremacy”

Global Times GT Editor’s Note: Ajamu Baraka (Baraka), the Green Party nominee for Vice President of the US in 2016, told I-Talk show why nowadays a third party can hardly affect the monopoly of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in US politics and how partisanship will evolve. He also discussed China-US relations, stressing…

Black August: Jalil Muntaqim on the Black Liberation Struggle Inside and Outside Prison Walls

Natalia Marques Jalil Muntaqim was first imprisoned in 1971, when he was only 19 years old, after being involved in revolutionary Black liberation groups the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Jalil spent 49 years behind bars before himself and his supporters won his freedom in October 2020. Black August is…

Mumia Abu-Jamal Remains the Voice of the Voiceless

Abayomi Azikiwe Mumia Abu Jamal As A Youth Member Of The Black Panther Party In Philadelphia After 40 years of incarceration the “voice of the voiceless” remains a focus of international attention Black August Series No. 2 During the late 1960s, Mumia Abu-Jamal became a youth activist in the city of Philadelphia where a succession…

Jemima Pierre: UN “Peacekeeping” in Haiti

Jemima Pierre speaks on Haiti for the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute’s “Understanding Canadian Peacekeeping” webinar. Jemima Pierre is the Haiti/Americas Coordinator for the Black Alliance for Peace & and Associate Professor in the Departments of African American Studies & Anthropology, UCLA. While few Canadian troops have been devoted to UN missions in recent years, Ottawa…

How the CIA Illegally Used African Americans for Experimental Drug Research

Kit Klarenberg By now, many will be familiar with Project MKULTRA. For decades, the CIA conducted highly unethical experiments on humans in order to perfect brainwashing, mind control and torture techniques. Perhaps the program’s most notorious aspect was the administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs to targets, particularly LSD. These substances were brought to Langley’s…

Italy: An African Killed in the Street Among Idle Passers-By

Marinella Correggia In Italy, Akila Ogorchukwu, a disabled Nigerian street vendor was punched and strangled in the street in Civitanova Marche by a 32-year-old Italian man with a history of violence and drugs. The deadly attack lasted four long minutes and took place in a central street. No one present intervened. Witnesses took video footage,…

Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Battalions Indoctrinated Children with Anti-Russian Ideology

Lucas Leiroz In a recent report, information was published on how young Ukrainians were indoctrinated to adopt racist anti-Russian ideology in training camps commanded by the neo-Nazi battalions that have been operating in the country since the Maidan coup. In these camps, in addition to ideological indoctrination, children were also initiated into military training to fight…

War as a Purpose: Young Ukrainians Radicalized in Neo-Nazi Training Camps

Thousands of Ukrainian children have been poisoned by the neo-Nazi ideology in the years since the Maidan Uprising. Grown-ups have consistently taught them hatred, calling it patriotism. To that end, the country established a whole network of children’s camps, whose instructors had served as punishers in the Donbass. ‘Let Moscow Lie in Ruins!’ In 2017,…

Protesting for Jayland Walker

Margaret Kimberley The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught. Jayland Walker was killed by police in Akron, Ohio when he was shot more than 60 times. The nature…

Fascist USA: Coeur d’Alene and a Legacy of Hate

Cassandra Devereaux Large group of “Patriotic Front” fascists arrested when preparing to attach Pride March in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. PART I: 19TH CENTURY NORTHWEST ETHNOSTATES AND THE GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS NATIONS Coeur d’Alene,the largest city in Northern Idaho, is set in truly breathtaking country. It’s on a lake that shares its name to the south,…

Massacre in Melilla: A Barbaric Crime

Alejandro López 37 refugees dead, hundreds injured in Spanish-Moroccan police massacre at Melilla border Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, working with Moroccan police acting as the European Union’s border guards, have carried out a barbaric massacre at the borders of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa. At least 37 migrants were killed and 150…

From Buffalo to Uvalde: Racism, Violence Come from the Top

John Parker People in Buffalo, N.Y., march on May 15 after racist murder of 10 Black people. From Buffalo, New York, to Uvalde, Texas, it all comes from the top. It comes from the top and trickles down to us in bullets and death. That’s the reality in a capitalist country that glorifies murder by…

Ukraine: A New Consensus on Whiteness?

​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka A march of the Azov Battalian, Svoboda, and other far-right radical groups in Kiev, October 14, 2017. (Photo: Reuters / Gleb Garanich) The Biden administration and corporate media cover up the existence of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They are disappeared from the official narrative in order to get public buy-in…

Fascism Spoken Softly Does Not Soften its Blows

New Frame Editorial As xenophobic mobilisation escalates, democracy appears increasingly fragile. A new vision of emancipation rooted in a politics of solidarity is needed now more than ever. The broader unemployment rate is 46.2%. Almost two million of the jobs lost in the lockdowns during the severely mishandled Covid-19 crisis have not returned. Millions of…