The Most Important Thing You Can Share is History

© 7/2026 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/message-to-galaxy-fellows/ The most important thing you can share -- the North Star you refer to -- is History.  Real history teaches why today is the way it is, today. Malcolm X used to say, History, of all our studies, best rewards our research. When he learned about history, it transformed him. The history of Black people in America opened his head and expanded his mind. It remade [...]

Fascist Attacks on Differently-Abled People

KPFK Disarming Itself Against Trump's Fascist Playbook by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Trump and RFK Jr. are coming after people with disabilities, rejecting the applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Unfortunately, KPFK no longer airs the Access Unlimited program focusing on disability rights and resources that I had restored to the air, and thus has lost the capacity to be a platform for that community in [...]

NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST GENOCIDES

July 4, 2026 - Atlanta Georgia Today's reading of the US Declaration of Independence leaves little to celebrate. The forefathers of the USA called to dissolve the political bonds that connected their new colonies to the British empire. However, the masses of people living here, created equal in the eyes of God/Allah/the Great Spirit, were in no way treated equally or free by those who proclaimed this land to be the “United [...]

Avoiding the “Thucydides Trap”

by Alex Lo, South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3353953/chinas-rise-will-turn-thucydides-trap-its-head [Excerpt] It was no accident that President Xi Jinping cited the “Thucydides Trap” during his summit in Beijing with Trump, putting it forward as something for both superpowers to avoid. The theory, popularized by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, digs into an episode in Greek history to warn against the danger of war between a rising power and a declining one. Meanwhile, more scholars [...]

Michael Parenti, Presente!

© by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/michael-parenti-presente/ Michael Parenti was a wonderful writer, for his work was peppered with wit, insight, and a deep well of learning. Years ago, I received one of his books, that I found particularly interesting, on the Roman Empire. His thinking was original, and ground-breaking. It made you think of Rome and its Empire in a brand-new way. I got a letter from Michael, and he remarked that he [...]

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In Memory of Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña, 1932–2026

El Libro No Murió: In Memory of Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña, 1932–2026 https://threesonorans.substack.com/p/dr-rudy-acuna-father-of-chicano-studies Somewhere in a Tucson storage facility in January 2012, a copy of Occupied America sat in a cardboard box — put there by bureaucrats afraid of what a history book might do to Brown children. Today, the man who wrote it is gone. But Dr. Jessica Bernal-Mejía — a girl who was once told by a school counselor she [...]

Dolores Huerta Speaks on Coerced Sex by Cesar Chavez

Dolores Huerta Speaks https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555      “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.      I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own [...]

The US-Israeli War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that few [...]

IWD – Women Against Imperialism

International Women's Day - Global Women's Strike Like May Day, International Women's Day has its origins in the US. First declared in 1909 by Theresa Malkiel of the Socialist Party of America to commemorate a women's garment workers strike in 1857 as National Women's Day, the commemoration was adopted on a resolution by Clara Zeitkin, another Socialist, at a Copenhagen conference in 1911. It focused on demands for equality, labor rights, and [...]

Into the Buzz-saw

© 2026 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentaries/ [In commercial journalism], you either serve the Emperor or you serve the Empire, but you serve power. And if you don't, you get tossed. Think about this -- Into the Buzzsaw, that was one of the best books I ever read about journalism, because it was real cases of real journalists all across the nation, who found out stuff and tried to report it, and collided [...]

The protests in Iran, a recurring story.

By Arthur Gonzalez , Heraldo Cubano Many people have forgotten and others are unaware of the background of the current protests that have been taking place for days in Iran, because the news disseminated by Western media distorts reality and hides the truth. The protests began in Tehran's Grand Bazaar for economic reasons, but transformed into political demands against the government. Implausibly some of those now protesting are cheering Shah Reza Pahlavi, [...]

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