United States Hypocrisy

R&b singer Kehlani with the flag of Palestine in the Next 2 U music video R&b superstar Kehlani has had her headlining show cancelled by Cornell University after a coordinated campaigns by supporters of Israel to have her punished for supporting Palestine. The singer was scheduled to headline the University’s annual Slope Day concert on May 7th following the last day of classes. The…

Originally published on LiberationNews.org Robert Roberson “shaken baby syndrome” case reveals grave injustices for autistic people December 9, 2024 Robert Roberson On November 25, Deborah Oakes Evans, the judge who previously signed a death warrant for Robert Roberson, stepped down from the case. This is the latest twist in a series of legal wranglings around Roberson’s fate. Roberson has…

Protesters at Harvard University show support for Palestinians at a rally on Oct. 14. Joseph Presiozo / AFP – Getty Images On the night of April 26, revolutionary political prisoner and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal called in to students at CUNY University to deliver a message at this historic moment in the movement for Palestine. For the past two weeks, encampments have sprung up all across the…

Aaron Bushnell A 25 year old active duty member of the U.S. Air Force, Aaron Bushnell, has succumbed to his wounds after lighting himself on fire in protest of the U.S.-Israeli genocide of the people of Gaza. Bushnell had been in the air force since 2020 where he “trained as a client systems technician, working in IT management and as a DevOps engineer in the last year” according to his LinkedIn…

Originally posted on LiberationNews.org Texas scheduled to execute Ivan Cantu despite new evidence, recantation of witnesses January 28, 2024 Screenshot from Fox 26 On February 28, Ivan Cantu, who has maintained his innocence for over two decades, is scheduled to become the 587th person put to death by the Texas killing machine since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. Cantu was…

January 15, 2023 According to a report by CBS News, the United States will be sending 1,500 troops to both Iraq and Syria for what it claims will be going to combat ISIS. The reasoning is doubtful, considering that U.S. bases in both countries are coming under fire not from ISIS but from groups linked to the Axis of Resistance. These groups have been stepping up their attacks on U.S. forces due…

December 23, 2023 Since taking office in 2015, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been waging an unrelenting war on immigrants across the state. From the horrific Operation Lone Star, which saw thousands of National Guard troops deployed to the Texas-Mexico border and the installation of razor wire and buoys, to the forced bussing of migrants to Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, Governor Abbott has…

December 16, 2023 Darryl George with his mother Earlier this year, to the surprise of many, Governor Greg Abbott signed the CROWN Act into law, prohibiting discrimination in schools and workplaces based on hairstyles such as braids, locs and afros. The signing of this law came after years of struggle by community members pushing back against school suspensions and employment discrimination. The…

Originally published May 1, 2013 on PrisonRadio.org Palestine Prisons By Mumia Abu-Jamal It is one of the ironies of history that the descendants of the beleaguered Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, subjected to the bitter hatreds and repression of the Nazis, have established an entire sea of the oppressed and impoverished on their periphery: the open-air prison ghettoes of Palestine: Gaza and the West…

Originally published on LiberationNews.org Biden rushes border wall, bringing border policy in lockstep with Trump, Abbott Caleb Granger October 22, 2023 In a stark reversal of one of his most significant campaign promises, President Biden has waived 26 federal environmental, public health and cultural protection laws in order to fast-track construction of former President Donald Trump’s…

Article originally posted on LiberationNews.org Why Washington is responsible for every death in Gaza Joyce Chediac October 15, 2023 Image by Carlos Latuff from Latuff Cartoons The whole world watched the U.S. government rush munitions, its most advanced aircraft carriers and the most advanced fighter jets to Israel so it could wage a genocidal war on the two million Palestinians trapped in…

Originally posted on LiberationNews.org Texas’ racist border wall continues; resistance still growing April 2, 2023 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Picture form ABCNews Nearly a year and a half after Texas governor Greg Abbott announced his plans to continue Donald Trump’s border wall, the project is ongoing at great expense to the public. After years of crowdfunding by the Republican governor and a…

Originally posted on LiberationNews.org Dangerous, secret Texas police raids highlight problem of police militarization February 11, 2023 The Galveston, Texas, city government is dealing with the fallout of a recent SWAT raid conducted by local police that ended in thousands of dollars of property damage against an innocent family based on a false accusation. This and other incidents in recent…

Originally posted on LiberationNews.org Dangerous, secret Texas police raids highlight problem of police militarization February 11, 2023 The Galveston, Texas, city government is dealing with the fallout of a recent SWAT raid conducted by local police that ended in thousands of dollars of property damage against an innocent family based on a false accusation. This and other incidents in recent…

Train derailment in Slendora, Texas near Houston While the town of East Palestine, Ohio is dealing with the fallout of dangerous chemicals being released into the air following the derailment of a Norfolk Southern-owned train, a lesser known train derailment occurred near Houston, Texas just 10 days later, killing a driver and threatening to poison the environment. The train, which is operated…

100 years ago today a racist white mob went through the predominantly Black town of Rosewood in Florida and massacred countless people after a white woman falsely claimed she was raped. Over a period of 7 days, the terrorist mob killed anyone in sight and burned the city to the ground. All survivors permanently fled the city. No one in the racist mob was ever held accountable. Descendants of the…

In the past several months, there has been a steady rise in anti-Jewish hatred throughout the United States and an increase in the sharing of anti-semitic tropes and far-right conspiracy theories. This has been exacerbated by some of the world’s most famous celebrities deciding to use their platforms to spread neo-Nazi talking points and ‘Great Replacement‘ (aka ‘white genocide’) myths. Memes are…