100 years ago Henry Ford bought the Dearborn Independent to channel his virulent anti-Semitism. A local journal examined Ford’s bigotry and its sway in today’s white supremacist media, but Dearborn’s mayor censored the magazine and fired the editor.
A federal court this week approved a plan that will grant predatory vulture funds a huge payday while consigning the island's citizens to 40 years of high sales taxes.
So, let’s start by my alerting you that my views on the Governor Northam controversy may be different from what you expect. I don’t think that he should resign.
History is hidden in plain sight, you know; blacks in country music. It’s right there, in so many different ways. This album confronts the ways we are culturally conditioned to avoid talking about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny...
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Independent Media Institute
The most valuable way the U.S. can help is to stop making the Venezuelan economy and people scream (on all sides), by lifting its sanctions and abandoning its failed regime change operation. Only public education and outrage can make that happen.
An interview with Mohammad Omidvar, spokesperson of the Tudeh Party and editor of ‘Nameh Mardom’, the party's central organ, on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
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