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God blesses America. The United States thinks it is omnipotent. But Americans themselves are impotent. They have no control over what their leaders think or do. Have you noticed that the United States does cyber espionage While everyone else hacks? If you want to understand the United states You should listen to a 72 year …

Enough with the 1st Amendment hypocrisy of Biden and his AG Merrick Garland!

They Can’t Extol US Press Freedom while Seeking to Extradite and Prosecute Publisher Assange

  Today’s make or break for President Joe Biden and his wimpy attorney general Merrick Garland on the issue of a free press. The US Constitution, flawed as it is as a founding document, is unequivocal on the matter. Its much cited and touted First Amendment states; “Congress shall make no law…abridging freedom of speech …

Blatant bias by Black judge

Ruling Rejects Rights For Abu-Jamal – Again!

Editorial note: The recent ruling rejecting an appeal filed by Mumia Abu-Jamal bent law and logic. Below is a critique of that ruling rendered by Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons. This insightful critique is from Wendell Griffen, a recently retired judge in Arkansas. The distinguished career of Griffen includes lawyer, head of a …

US/UK Seek to Silence Julian Assange and Free Press:

After 4 Years in Isolation, Action Causes Light to Pierce Through for Assange as Australia Says: ‘Enough!’

By Dave Lindorff and Ron Ridenour (published in Counterpunch) On April 4, in what could be a major positive development in the 11-year entrapment and four-year solitary confinement by Britain of Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, he was visited for the first time in the hell-hole of Belmarsh Prison by the Australian Labour Party-led government’s …

Clemons cops out

Lucretia And The Law Of Lawlessness

When Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons released an inmate from prison in May 2021, she clearly saw how prosecutors illegally withholding evidence of innocence caused that Philadelphia man to languish in prison for nearly 30-years on a wrongful murder conviction. As Clemons released Eric Riddick from prison on May 28, 2021, she declared …

DC March 18 peace demo blacked outby US corporate media

Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media

  In the early morning of March 20, 2003, US Navy bombers on aircraft carriers and Tomahawk missile-launching vessels in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, along with Air Force B-52s in Britain and B-2s in Diego Garcia, struck Baghdad and other parts of Iraq in a “Shock and Awe” blitzkrieg to oust Iraqi dictator …

What does this have to do with ‘defense?’:

Biden’s 2024 Funding Proposal is a War Budget and He Is Leading Us to War

  From Aug. 7, 1789 when it was created, to September 18, 1947, the American people knew that their government had a Department of War, and that it had an Army and a Navy for that purpose, both to defend the country against attack, as it did in 1812, and to make war, as it …

That deadly gang in blue - police

Sickening Similarities In Police Assaults Evidence Resilience Of Racism

Editor’s note: Exclusive new information about Mumia Abu-Jamal in the sidebar below. This article incorporates that information. Raw racism deeply embedded in law enforcement connects the fatal January 7, 2023 police beating of a Black man in Memphis, Tennessee with a vicious December 9, 1981 police assault on a Black man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That …

Ignorance fuels bigotry

Conservatives Mangle Meaning Of Dr. King’s Message

A few weeks before Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his legendary “I Have A Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, a major book publisher released a book that featured a collection of King’s sermons. One of the 17 sermons in that book contained a poignant warning from King that is critical for understanding the roots …