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"History is watching: - former CBS News anchor Dan Rather on Facebook rips Donald Trump's veiled assassination threat against his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump in a bid to his followers, who also oppose gun control, said his "Second Amendment people" might be able to stop Hillary Clinton's appointment of Supreme Court justices. This is a new level of the GOP's war on women, where the right has fueled attacks on women and the murder of abortion providers.

The reason for today's powerful and persistent insistence that Black lives matter is based on the irrefutable evidence throughout American history that Black lives have never mattered. Black lives that were enslaved for 250 years never much mattered beyond the kind of economic concern held for livestock. Black lives that suffered a hundred years of brutal segregation and discrimination following slavery's abolition never mattered until Black people raised their voices...

If, as Cornel West says, 'justice is what love looks like in public,' then Freedom Square is an embodiment of practicing justice....With grace, imagination and courage, Freedom Square offers a glimpse into a new future and is boldly showing the world how to make Black lives matter.

The ANC’s historical losses in local elections should serve as a wake up call for the future, the trade union federation, COSATU, stated in a press release.

Deaths like that of Darius Robinso at the hands of prison guards underlie the lethal risk faced by those who are incarcerated.

A unique community-owned broadband cooperative will free dozens of tiny towns and farms from reliance on slower corporate providers.

In addition, Trump said he would lower corporate tax rates from 40% to 15% - a rate he said punished "companies for making products in America".

Out of touch; Unnoticed; Inside; Over the edge; Ending cute

Adolph Reed on assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the task ahead.

NACLA's editors introduce the latest print issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas - Currency of Death: Unraveling the Political Economy of the Drug Wars.