Two NYPD officials involved in separate altercations during chaotic moments of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations won't face criminal charges, officials said Friday.

Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna and Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona were investigated by the…

Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported on Sunday evening that the autopsy report of detainee Arafat Jardat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, revealed that the detainee died due to extreme torture.

In a joint…

Attorneys for the man convicted of killing 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes have asked a judge for a new trial, arguing that prosecutors made improper statements to the jury and withheld information.

Michael Maurice Johnson was convicted this month of second-degree murder in the death of Barnes, a…

By Michael Coard, opinon,



Black History Month (BHM) should be abolished and should never be officially honored or even informally acknowledged. It’s nothing more than some reverse racism entitlement nonsense that gives credit to a whiny race of shiftless people who have always received much more than they have ever given to America and the colonies. Moreover,



BHM is unfair to white ethnics whose ancestors came here through…

Christopher Dorner‘s mother Nancy is being urged by her family to sue the Los Angeles Police Department over her son’s…

By Aaron Leonard, Truthout | Op-Ed 



The story of 1970s FBI informant Sheila O'Connor provides lessons for today's progressive organizations about infiltration by the state security apparatus.

(Official Notice From Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.)

Apparently the State is not happy with the fact that Chairman Fred Hampton Jr of the P.O.C.C./BPPC is building bridges and doing work in Oakland with like-minded community organizations dedicated to improving life conditions for oppressed, repressed and terrorized citizens in the city of Oakland…

The John Carlos Story, with Dave Zirin, Haymarket Books, 2011

Veronica & the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal as told to Valerie Jones, Xlibris, 2012



Two books—very different and yet with a common thread of courage. If the names do not immediately resonate with you, it is only because time and political circumstances are always changing.  



John Carlos is the man and track star who electrified us when he and Tommie…

by SAUL LANDAU

Five Cubans fighting terrorism in south Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the US public to learn from its media about the horrific injustice done by the US government to these Cuban men. But the media has barely touched the grotesque frame up of Gerarddo Hernandz, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzlaez, Ramon Labanino and Rene Gonzalez, the Cuban Five as they are called. These Cuban intelligence agents volunteered in the 1990s to…

By Matthew Lyons

As some of you may already know, up to 25 people were arrested in San Francisco at an anti-colombus day/ decolonize demonstration. Many of these people are Oakland comrades, including some who you may know have been in contact with in some capacity.



Most people arrested were beaten, and there are still people in jail with multiple injuries. Everyone has serious felonies and will be arraigned on Tuesday or Wednesday, when the bail will…

To whom it may concern and all California Prisoners:

Greetings from the entire PBSP-SHU Short Corridor Hunger Strike Representatives. We are hereby presenting this mutual agreement on behalf of all racial groups here in the PBSP-SHU Corridor. Wherein, we have arrived at a mutual agreement concerning the following points:

1. If we really want to bring about substantive…

A Toronto police officer sparked an international movement when he allegedly told a group of college students that they should not dress like “sluts” if they want to reduce the risk of being raped. Many women were offended by the comment and have taken to staging “SlutWalk” events in several countries to raise…

Fox News is reporting that  a man who is either a US citizen or an Israeli citizen living in America who supports Israel is behind the film that sparked outrage in Egypt and Libya that so far has resulted in the deaths of four US state department workers. The film was also promoted by the Koran burning…

Right wing propagandist and all around Muslim hater Robert Spencer is angry that the NYPD is shutting down its illegal spy ring that targeted Muslims in several states…

By Tom Burghardt



In a story which should have made front page headlines, Narco News investigative journalist Bill Conroy revealed that “A high-ranking Sinaloa narco-trafficking organization member’s claim that US officials have struck a deal with the leadership…

As South Africa’s mining strike threatened to spread, striking miners charged that South African police dragged an injured colleague from his hospital bed and killed him.

The allegation adds to accusations that police have used excessive violence against the strikers at the Lonmin Marikana platinum mine, following the Aug. 16 police shootings in which 34…

CHICAGO (Sept. 5, 2012) – The only United States citizen residing in the U.S. designated as a  “terrorist” by the Department of Treasury filed suit today in federal court to challenge as unconstitutional the onerous restrictions imposed on him by that designation for the past 17 years. Under the restrictions, which bar virtually all economic transactions, even those necessary for survival, Muhammad Salah is not permitted to get a job, pay rent or a mortgage, pay for his children’s…

By Adam Carpinelli, Joe Iosbaker and Steff Yorek

Two years after September 24 raids on anti-war and international solidarity activists

We demand the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s office “End the investigation!”

1. Organize protests and events the week of September 20th – 26th

Demand, two years after September 24 raids on anti-war and international solidarity activists:

“End the investigation now!”

Participate in the

2. National call in day September…

ST. PAUL — An Austin man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on a weapons charge.

Thirty-one-year-old Samuel James Johnson was sentenced in a St. Paul federal court Wednesday for possessing an assault rifle. Federal officials believed Johnson was amassing weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition as part of a plan to attack the government and minorities.

Johnson was indicted April 12 and pleaded…