Frank Crichlow (1932 - 2010) was a community activist and civil rights campaigner. He founded the Mangrove restaurant which became the centre for Black civil rights activism in Britain which led to the infamous Mangrove Nine trials of 1970 and the first admission of institutional racism within the Metropolitan Police force.
Video smuggled out of Israel that captures the Israeli Navy threatening to open fire on a boat containing human rights activists who were delivering aid, following the massacres in Gaza under Operation Cast Lead 2008/2009 during which over 1,400 people were killed and over 50,000 people displaced.
With the US's political landscape under more scrutiny than ever before, citizens of the US are rapidly calling for change.
Will history ever stop repeating itself? A statement on the illegalities of war and the actions which should be taken to stop the outbreak of war.
Robin Miller looks at some of the propaganda tactics used by the mainstream media to help shape public opinion and perceptions about the Israel/Palestine conflict.
With gas prices at an all-time high, oil conglomerates are, now more than ever, looking to Africa for its relatively untapped resources.
Zimbabwean political analyst George Shire talks to Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr. about the recent elections in his country, the cause of the crisis and the impact of Western interference on the democratic process of change in Zimbabwe.
A quarter of a century after the Soweto Uprising, the linguistic and social divides which underly the upheaval are still a pressing issue.
Pat Dodson, winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize, talks to Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr. about the plight of Australia's indigenous people, the recent government apology and the opportunities for black and white Australians to resolve their differences.
With religious intolerance now at the ugly centre of many of the world's major conflicts, it is important to look at the concepts of spirituality and the clashes of conformity within the contexts of organized religion.
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Michael Parenti is an American writer, lecturer, scholar, political scientist, and historian. His broad spectrum of work embodies the topics of American foreign policy, imperialism, economics, communism, fascism, socialism, religion, history, and politics, to name a few. He is a widely-known and well-respected lecturer at universities and conventions around the world. The following is an excerpt from his essay, “Imperialism 101.”
Walter Cronkite is one of the most famous reporters in American history. Having served as a front-line journalist since the Vietnam War, he has tremendous experience with government censorship and its progression from the 1960s to the present. In the following essay, he discusses that progression and comments on the condition of war-time journalism today.
Burmese Buddhist Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar. As a prisoner of conscience, her peaceful and non-violent struggle against a repressive regime has earned her such notable recognitions as the Rafto Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize. The following is an excerpt from “Freedom from Fear,” an essay she published to commemorate her winning of the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
