As the National Football League’s Super Bowl has grown in epic proportions to become U.S. television’s most watched single event, so has its media day, which occurs on the Tuesday before the Sunday game. On media day, the athletes and coaches, representing the American Football Conference and National Football Conference champions, are grilled by thousands [...]
Facts about People’s Korea
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Editor February 2, 2013 » Add the first comment.
There are facts, and then there is fiction. Let’s deal with the fiction first. In the fictional world reflected in Hollywood movies like the remake of “Red Dawn,” the socialist north of Korea launches a war against the United States, invading and killing many people. It would hardly be necessary to answer such a ridiculous [...]
The Tet Offensive
In using military force to bend countries to their will, the imperialists have always had a wide technological advantage over peoples whose economic and scientific development was stifled by years of colonial domination. Yet there have been remarkable victories that inspired the Black Panthers in this country to say, “The power of the people is [...]
On 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade
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Editor January 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision is Jan. 22. How have women fared since then in getting U.S. courts to recognize their right to choose for themselves whether to complete or terminate a pregnancy? It has been a tough struggle, one that can seem even harder today than in earlier [...]
Imperialist hands off Mali!
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Editor January 21, 2013 » Add the first comment.
A full analysis of France’s imperialist invasion of Mali requires a look at the relations among the different peoples of this West African country and the history of their struggles. It also involves the contradictions among the imperialist powers for hegemony in Africa and the world. But sometimes you can see clearest by looking from [...]
Rape, there and here
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Editor January 9, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The brutal gang rape and beating of a young woman student on Dec. 16 in Delhi, India, sparked massive demonstrations by women and their male supporters in major cities throughout that country. Her subsequent death on Dec. 29, from the severe injuries she sustained, resulted in further massive protests. The unnamed victim — whom protesters [...]
Emancipation and incarceration
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Editor January 4, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Even as the U.S. officially celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans make up the largest portion of this country’s enormous prison population. The great hopes generated by that document brought a flood of Black men escaping from chattel slavery into the ranks of the Union Army, thus turning the tide of [...]
Recognizing a lie in Syria
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Editor December 21, 2012 » Add the first comment.
On Dec. 11, the U.S. took what the Obama administration calls a “big step.” It formally recognized the Syrian Opposition Council as the sole “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. Most observers were not surprised: Washington and its allies have been laboring mightily for months to create the very organization they now “recognize.” Just before [...]
Syria, Egypt & imperialism
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Editor December 16, 2012 » Add the first comment.
If you’re reading this editorial, you probably don’t believe that when cops invade poor Black or Latino/a neighborhoods, they do it to protect the innocent and the elderly. You probably don’t believe that the governor of Michigan is attacking unions in order to protect workers from paying dues. And you’re absolutely right. These elements are [...]
Stand with Hugo Chávez & Venezuela
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Editor December 13, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary career as military rebel, people’s hero and agent of deep social change in Venezuela, as well as a leader of the anti-imperialist struggle in Latin America, has inspired the world while putting fear in the hearts of the imperialists. His announcement that his cancer has returned despite many efforts by Cuba’s stellar [...]
