Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors...
View ArticleHow America Became a Third World Country
The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and...
View ArticleBritain, Saudis, and Wahhabism
No one can reject the role of the British Colonel, fashioned in Hollywood as the Lawrence of Arabia, in Arabs’ fight against the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent formation of Wahhabi Saudi Arabia....
View ArticleDrawing the Color Line
A black American writer, J. Saunders Redding, describes the arrival of a ship in North America in the year 1619: Sails furled, flag drooping at her rounded stern, she rode the tide in from the sea. She...
View ArticleIn Remembrance of Al-Nakba
Today is the 65th anniversary of Al-Nakba, or The Catastrophe in Arabic. It marks the period in which 750,000 indigenous Palestinians were forced into exile by Zionist leaders so they could establish...
View Article“We Treat Our Women Better”
Download: dmkw14u6db9ism11khif.mp3 White America accuses groups of people of things that they see in themselves. In doing this, they feel that they can erase the collective guilt they have over...
View ArticlePersons of a Mean and Vile Condition
In 1676, seventy years after Virginia was founded, a hundred years before it supplied leadership for the American Revolution, that colony faced a rebellion of white frontiersmen, joined by slaves and...
View ArticleI Did This While You Slept
This is true. My mom got sick my senior year of high school. Her name is Meredith, but everybody calls her Mere. She is a great mother, but she’s more than that. She’s the kind of mother that’s a best...
View ArticleWomen’s Participation in the Struggle for Liberation in Palestine
An interview with Palestinian author Sonia Nimr by Fathi Nemer. How did the first Intifada facilitate a more active participation of Palestinian women in the political struggle? The active...
View ArticleAcademic Boycotts are Necessary
I am tired of liberal Zionists who claim to support the Palestinians on moral grounds, but then consistently feel as if they get to dictate the agenda. The oppressed in this struggle are the...
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