On the Situation in Gaza: A Statement by Radical Elders

` (Issued Nov. 2, 2023)  Radical Elders adds our voice to the worldwide outcry for an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli government’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. The insanity of our imperialist, racial capitalist world continues to explode. We add our voice to the world’s outrage at this most recent eruption, in one of …

'A story more provocative than Oppenheimer'

Robert Scheer interviews Steve James and Dave Lindorff about their film ‘A Compassionate Spy’

“I’m surprised you were able to make this film.”                        — Bob Scheer, host of KCRW’s “Scheer Intelligence” The world has somehow reached a moment where the use of nuclear weapons has possibly never been closer and the interest in nuclear weapons has possibly never …

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 …

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 …

Judge Clemon’s chance to “Make some good trouble”:

Will She Have the Guts on Xmas to Free Mumia or Grant Him a Hearing on 6 Long-Hidden D.A. Crates of Evidence?

  Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Lucretia Clemons is a model of a black woman from a very underprivileged background in racist, segregated and former slave state Mississippi, overcoming tremendous odds to succeed in a challenging career. Her grandfather, the youngest boy in a family of eight children, was compelled at the age 8 had to …

Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes.

New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust The provocative documentary “A Compassionate Spy” tells the amazing but almost unknown story of a “near-genius” Harvard physics major, who at age 17, was selected to …

America's robed ayatollahs overstep:

Let’s Hear It for ‘Justice’ Sam Alito!

  Let’s make a collective raspberry for the biggest loser of this off-year Congressional election: Supreme Court Justice and easily the most grouchy and sanctimonious jurist on the High Court bench Samuel Alito. It was Alito who led the charge to finally accomplish what the vast majority of male Republican members of Congress and state …

With assist from reform DA Krasner’s office:

Philly Judge Blows off Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Latest Appeal

  A Philadelphia lower state court jurist, Court of Common Pleas Judge Lucretia J. Clemons, has issued an notice that she is intending to summarily completely reject the latest and perhaps most dramatic legal challenge by Pennsylvania’s most well-known prison captive, Mumia Abu-Jamal of his 1982 conviction on a charge of murdering a white police …