February 20, 2024
“I’m going to argue that it’s not only June 19, 1865, that we should mark, but also June 19, 1867, because that’s when the French leader Maximillian was killed. It marks the end of the attempt to continue our enslavement in Mexico. It’s a history that I would urge others to investigate….”
February 20, 2024
“Settler colonialism” begins in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida in 1565. Actually, September 15, 1565. I think people sort of know that, but they’re so taken with the anglocentric narrative…
February 20, 2024
In this interview on KFAI-Minneapolis with hosts Don Olson and Dave Gutknecht, Michael Tigar encounters one of his clients for the first time, live on the radio.
February 20, 2024
…in the service of besieged Venezuela, en route to Iran, another nation similarly blockaded by America, when he was intercepted by Cape Verde authorities and thrown into prison there….
February 20, 2024
As then, and today, the primary objective of American fascist movements is to undermine the democratic impulse that threatens concentrated wealth…
February 20, 2024
“Dr. Horne, you’re from Saint Louis, and your younger brother is a Jazz musician and…I was wondering if you could paint the picture of when jazz first entered your world and psyche.”
February 20, 2024
Chavez inherited an impoverished country with a thin, glittering layer of affluence at the top. To the horror of Washington and Venezuelan plutocrats, he promptly began redistributing wealth to the poor…
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne is this year’s winner of the ABA, awarded by the Before Columbus Foundation, for his book “The Dawning of the Apocalypse,” a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed.
February 20, 2024
Russell provides sound advice for those negotiating about the terms of these defined benefit plans, which still number 50,000 and have 60 million participants among active or retired workers. As he notes, in the current bargaining environment, “participants and their union representatives are more likely to be thinking defensively”…
February 20, 2024
Born in a Jim Crow hospital. Attended racially segregated “apartheid schools.” Grew up in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood of St. Louis, an area similar to Tulsa’s Black Wall Street and home to several prominent Black businesses that were erased forever by racially motivated construction projects…
