June 22, 2018
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Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped and drugged By Patrick Martin
Court documents made public in Virginia and Texas give a glimpse of the systematic brutality being meted out to immigrant children in both public and private jails. Children are strapped down, hooded and beaten, or drugged by force, as part of the everyday procedure in what can only be called the American Gulag. Continue reading
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Korean Voices Missing From Major Papers’ Opinions on Singapore Summit By Adam Johnson
In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly ignored. Continue reading
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Video: The Circuit of Death in the “Enlarged Mediterranean” By Manlio Dinucci
The politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark – those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons. Perhaps we should say the “Enlarged Mediterranean”, an area which, in the framework of USA /… Continue reading
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Video: The Circuit of Death in the “Enlarged Mediterranean” By Manlio Dinucci
The politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark – those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons. Perhaps we should say the “Enlarged Mediterranean”, an area which, in the framework of USA /… Continue reading
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IRR News (8 – 21 June 2018)
21 June 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This week the Guardian published The List of 34,361 known deaths at the EU’s borders since 1993, which includes three teenage Eritrean asylum seekers, who came from the migrant camp in Calais to the UK, who have committed suicide here in the past seven Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report June 21, 2018: Saving the Green Party, Democrats White Supremacists Too, Democrats Unhinged by Korea
21 June 2018 — Black Agenda Report Can the Green Party Be Saved From Liberal Tokenism and Black Opportunism? We’ll See. – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The Green Party’s identity caucuses have become anti-democratic strongholds of backward opportunism. Reforming them is an urgent priority if the GP is ever to become a Continue reading
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The Ministry of Cruelty
It’s a special vengeance that capital takes on those who only make counterrevolution halfway. And make no mistake, the policies and programs of the last ten years have been half-a-counterrevolution. Whether presented as austerity, or as special investment vehicles, or direct capital injections, or quantitative easing, behind all those masks stands the attack on labor,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 