President Joe Biden continues to proclaim endless support of apartheid Israel, but millions have decided that defense of Palestinian rights and lives is the only civilized response to barbaric aggression. Continue reading
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Freedom Rider: The end of low wage work
The combination of unemployment and additional stimulus support has made staying home a better economic decision than working for peanuts under stressful conditions. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Progressives capitulate to Biden
There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: No justice without a movement
The changes needed are fundamental to a country which puts anti-black racism at the center of politics, law and economics. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Gun violence starts at the top
If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Vaccine passports in a failed state
The non-vaccinated can be smeared and equated with MAGA hat wearing Trumpers, regardless of their religious or political affiliations. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: The U.S. can’t control the world
Slow-witted Joe Biden appears to think that we’re still in the age of the sole superpower, when in fact that era has come and gone. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: The minimal minimum wage
Most Democrats either don’t want a minimum wage increase or are too afraid of bucking their party’s donor class. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: No human rights in Texas
The people of Texas suffer unnecessarily from bad weather because their state puts oligarchs first and does not recognize the human right to health and safety. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Impeachment theater
Democracy is hanging on by a thread—not due to marauding Trumpsters—but because of bipartisan support for neoliberal policies. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Forced labor in the U.S.
Forced labor of Uyghurs in China is questionable, but there is absolute proof that incarcerated people in this country are forced to work for little or no pay. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: The never ending COVID crisis
Profits determine the US response to a health care crisis, so Americans are in trouble regardless of who occupies the White House. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Pro-Biden propaganda
The Democratic Party and its corporate media have already whitewashed Biden, and nothing will be demanded of him except that he not be Trump. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Why the left don’t protest
The worse the political and economic crisis becomes, the more lethargic the US left behaves—as if generations of collaboration with corporate Democrats has sucked the life out of the left. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Capitol riot brings U.S. foreign policy home
There needs to be soul searching and truth-telling about invasions, interventions, coups and sanctions that are far more destructive than the Trump lovers could ever be. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Let the Black Caucus Be Black
Black people suffer because they have no real representation in Congress. The Congressional Black Caucus takes its orders from Nancy Pelosi, who serves corporations, not people. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Master Biden speaks
The civil rights groups’ rather basic requests for voting rights protections and the need for federal intervention to address police brutality were minimized and dismissed by the president-elect. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Black demands for the Biden administration
The Black Misleaders give the impression of exercising black empowerment when they are in fact only promoting themselves. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Israel and the U.S. assassinate peace
Israel and Saudi Arabia are doing everything in their power to prevent Biden from rejoining the nuclear agreement—and Biden’s team has nothing to say. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Censorship in the Biden era
The corporate media have joined the incoming administration in deciding what we can and cannot see and hear. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: The real Trump coup
Trump puts whiteness first and that means he will always have support and Republican leaders know it. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: The real resistance begins
‘Kamala Auntie’ and Joe from Scranton will do as little as possible so that ‘nothing will fundamentally change’ that would halt endless wars and the Race to the Bottom.
When Pennsylvania announced that Joe Biden won in that state it became clear that he had enough Electoral College votes to become the de facto president-elect. When the news became public, millions of people responded with spontaneous celebrations. There was quite literally dancing in the streets in many cities across the country. The public reaction was unprecedented in its scope and demonstrated the depth of antipathy towards Donald Trump, who is one of the most hated presidents in modern history. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Black people lose in 2020
Black people will get nothing from a Joe Biden administration except fiscal austerity and the precarity that comes with it. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Campaign confusion in the age of collapse
Biden always obliges Trump by denying that he will do anything that rank and file Democrats want and that would in fact increase his odds of winning. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Left out of the debate
If the needs of the people aren’t being addressed, what is the purpose of putting Biden and Harris into office? Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Liberal sympathy for Trump
Everyone reveals their true self in a time of turmoil. A crisis forces exposure which can no longer be kept hidden. The revelation that Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 certainly proves this point. The phony resistance immediately showed that their opposition to Trump is no indicator of solidarity with the people. Their allegiance to the ruling classes always comes out whenever it is time for people to speak forcefully. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and black life
Reactions to the Breonna Taylor murder, settlement and verdict all have one thing in common: Black people’s inability to protect our lives. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: The Democrats’ supreme failure
The corporate Democrats refuse to back measures that appeal to huge majorities of their base, preferring instead to campaign against one evil man and his appointees. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Democrats’ climate change lies
The Republicans lie about the harm they do to the planet, and the Democrats lie and pretend they’re not doing the very same things. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Losers, suckers and war
Democrats are up in arms over Trump’s latest mouth-burst, but the truth is that both corporate parties have made the people suckers for endless, ‘bipartisan’ wars.
Americans certainly love war. Most will deny having those feelings, they will instead talk about warfare as a means of protecting freedom, spreading democracy or fighting tyrants. The end result of course is mass death, mostly of people in far away and non-white lands, but also of significant numbers of Americans. The carnage is usually downplayed in favor of worshipping those who go to kill and perhaps be killed themselves. This twisted dynamic is most visible when anyone dares to question the narrative of exceptionalism and benevolent warriors. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: The U.S. is a racist militia
U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Biden breaks his promises
Posted on May 28, 2021 by Margaret Kimberley
Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office. Continue reading →