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“The Constitution Lies in Tatters on the Floor”

Lawrence Wilkerson Interviewed by Ralph Nader https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/shooting-wars-and-trade-wars (Excerpts) Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired U.S. Army colonel. Over his 31 years of service, Col. Wilkerson served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, and Special Assistant to Gen. Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. Wilkerson also served as Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War [...]

By |2026-10-01T22:46:53-05:00October 1st, 2026|Climate Change, Donald Trump, Drones, Elections, Fascism, Historical, National Security, News, Peace and War, Politics, Ralph Nader, Veterans, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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USC, Navy Program Appears Linked to Israeli Brigade that Massacred Paramedics

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/18/usc-navy-program-appears-linked-to-specific-israeli-brigade-that-massacred-paramedics-photo-shows/ In the featured graphic: People wearing a modified version of the Israeli military's Golani Brigade logo were photographed near the Navy Trauma Training Center. By Reo, Sasha Ryu, and Jackson Mills People who appear to be part of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade were seen walking through Los Angeles General Medical Center [AKA County/USC], amid ongoing reporting by Annenberg Media about a program where USC trains Israeli military medical personnel using [...]

By |2026-02-26T23:38:45-05:00February 26th, 2026|Activism, California, Education, Genocide, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Students, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Keep Space for Peace Week

October 4-11 2025 Oppose Trump's “Golden Dome” The US military preparations for global war continue – on land, at sea, in the air, and in space. Wars cannot be fought these days without support from space systems, and the aim of the U.S. Space Force is to ensure that it controls outer space and the Earth below. Trump’s provocative plan to build a ‘Golden Dome’ umbrella over North Amrica would cost several [...]

By |2025-09-30T23:33:37-05:00September 30th, 2025|A-I Artificial Intelligence, Donald Trump, Economy, Elon Musk, News, Peace and War, Protests and Rallies, Security and Insecurity, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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THE IDA B. WELLS MEDIA DEFENSE COALITION

An invitation to join. . . THE IDA B. WELLS MEDIA DEFENSE COALITION As an ad hoc group of Pacifica program producers and other community media advocates, we have been meeting via Zoom for several months to talk through current events and take meaningful collective action against the destructive forces around us. The Trump Administration has targeted media platforms where liberal and progressive voices share information (newspapers, radio, television, college, and the [...]

By |2025-07-06T23:58:45-05:00July 6th, 2025|Activism, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Journalists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, NPR, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio, Repression, Social Media, Solidarity, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks to Student Encampment at U Penn

Address to the Students at the U Penn Palestine Solidarity Encampment by Mumia Abu-Jamal Sisters, comrades, what are you doing? What are all of you doing? And ahy are you being punished and threatened by the state? Think about that. If you think about it, you see, it is obvious as it is shocking. You are protesting against genocide, protesting against mega-violence, paid for, in large part, by American taxpayers who are [...]

By |2024-06-01T00:51:46-05:00June 1st, 2024|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, Free Speech, Human Rights, Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Venezuela, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Black in Gaza by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Black in Gaza © April 2024 by Mumia Abu-Jamal As the ruinous war continues to rage in Gaza, Black and Palestinian scholars continue to tell the untold stories of these oppressed peoples. One such scholar is Greg Thomas, the founder and editor of the journal Proud Flesh and author of several books on Black, gender and post-colonial studies. Children of a Black community in Gaza after the Israeli destruction of their home [...]

By |2024-05-04T22:37:49-05:00May 4th, 2024|Abolition, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Indigenous Nations, Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Prisons, Solidarity, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender

A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after October 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to [...]

By |2024-05-04T22:36:29-05:00May 4th, 2024|Activism, Afghanistan, Anti-Racism/Racism, Artificial Intelligence, Beyond Capitalism, Biden, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Donald Trump, Drones, Europe, Fascism, Fund Drives, Health Care, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Israel and Palestine, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Medea Benjamin, Mexico, Movements, Nicolas Davies, Palestinian, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Politics, Reviews, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Ukraine, Unions, United Nations, Venezuela, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Julian Assange: Extradition deferred, not denied

UK ruling on Julian Assange ‘killing him slowly’, say free speech advocates By John T Psaropoulos for Al Jazeera [Excerpts] Free speech advocates and experts have criticized a British court judgment for failing to stop WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US. Assange was ordered extradited from the United Kingdom in 2022 to face espionage charges in a court in Virginia in the US, and he has appealed that extradition. London’s [...]

By |2024-04-03T22:20:51-05:00April 3rd, 2024|Activism, Constitution, Death Penalty, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Peace and War, People, Politics, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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In Memoriam: Jane Eliot Holmberg Dorrel – August 22, 1954 – April 19, 2023

Jane Dorrel died peacefully on April 19th, 2023, surrounded by her husband Frank, her daughter Emily, her sister Chrissy and Chrissy’s husband Peter. She had Stage 4 Breast Cancer, which she dealt with for 12 years. She also had a stroke in October of 2022 and sepsis in January of 2023. The sepsis returned. Many thanks go to her doctors: Dr. Lasika Seneviratne and Dr. Alex Chai. And to the nurses and [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:34:05-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Featured, Frank Dorrel, Girls, Health Care, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, Obituary, Peace and War, Reproductive Rights, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Casualties of War

Casualties of War: Truth, Journalism and Critical Thought by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA While forces on the right loudly lament so-called cancel culture, the real censorship is coming from the corporate and even so-called progressive media and the state. Consider the recent decision by the British to allow the extradition of Julian Assange, after years of house arrest and incarceration, to stand trial in the US on charged related to his [...]

By |2022-04-30T18:02:42-05:00April 30th, 2022|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Drones, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Police Brutality, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Systematic over-crediting of Forest Carbon Offsets in CA

Systematic over-crediting of Forest Carbon Offsets in CA By Grayson Badgley, Jeremy Freeman, Joseph Hamman, Barbara Haya, Anna Trugman, William R L Anderegg, & Danny Cullenward https://carbonplan.org/research/forest-offsets-explainer [Excerpts] Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. Because offsets effectively allow pollution to continue, however, they must reflect real climate benefits. To better understand whether these climate claims hold up in practice, we performed a [...]

By |2021-04-30T18:35:35-05:00April 30th, 2021|California, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Energy, Environment, Sustainability, United States, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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Murder Incorporated: Book Three-Perfecting Tyranny

MURDER INCORPORATED: Empire/Genocide/Manifest Destiny Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, Foreword by Angela Davis Prison Radio, San Francisco CA, 2020, 420 pp., $20, ISBN  978-7346489-1-1 (softcover) also available as hardcover and e-book (softcover $25 including shipping from Prison Radio, PO Box 411074, SF CA 94141, https://prisonradio.org Reviewed by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA-People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) The culminating third volume in the history of US empire and [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:19:01-05:00January 30th, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Book Reviews, Books, Democracy, Historical, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, Peace and War, Politics, Reviews, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Solidarity, United States, War, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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