Vick and Clarett's 'Right of Return'
'The right of return.' It's a powerful phrase that has been applied to both New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina and Palestinian refugees. It means that forced displacement must be resolved with some sense of justice.
Poster: I Stand with Sotomayor
Ever since President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the right wing has attacked her with racist and sexist remarks, part of a coordinated strategy to tarnish her credibility. And now they've continued their assault by publishing problematic and disrespectful images. Here is one response:
White House Announces New Mountaintop Mining Policy
Taking aim at mountaintop removal mining, this week, the Obama administration announced a new interagency effort to strengthen federal oversight of the practice and to punish mining companies who fail to protect the environment.
Iran Elections: Defeat Ahmadinejad and Other Reactionaries
Four years after the coming to power of the anti-people and deeply reactionary administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the people will be going to the polls at a time when an overwhelming majority are living under conditions much worse than before and face backbreaking economic pressures, severe suppression and deep poverty.
Podcast #101: McCarthyism in American History
On this episode we play our recent interview with authors Clarence Lang and Robbie Lieberman, editors of a new book titled Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement.
Cuba Confirms Potential of Renewable Energy Sources
HAVANA, Cuba, June 10 (acn) Wind and hydraulic energy could help Cuba generate an amount of electricity equivalent to the generating capacity of the nine thermoelectric power plants that exist in the country today.
Cuba Invests in Open-Source Software
In an attempt to reach technological independence Cuba has placed its bets on open-source software, a fact evidenced at the presentation of the Nova Operative System 2.0 during the 2009 International Convention of Informatics.
Back to the 19th Century
While Obama proclaims the 21st century, the government of Israel is returning to the 19th. One man spoke to the world, and the world listened. He walked onto the stage in Cairo alone, without hosts and without aides, and delivered a sermon to an audience of billions.
Racists, Known and Unknown
When President Obama stated that he didn't feel any pressure to choose either a minority or a woman in his choice to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter, I immediately twittered to the known universe that he was going to pick a white guy. By now the name Sotomayor is a household word. Shows you how much I know.
Iraqi CP Welcomes Obama's Commitment to Withdrawing from Iraq
The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party of Iraq, Hamid Majeed Mousa, has called upon Arab forces and governments to exert pressure in order to transform items mentioned in US President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo into concrete reality.
