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The United States has amassed a huge military presence around Iran, including an aircraft carrier group, fighter jets, and drones indicating that war is imminent.
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is calling for popular resistance to these criminal and illegal U.S. threats to take place throughout the country.
If there is a U.S. attack on Iran, we call for unified and immediate EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTIONS across the United States and beyond.
In an attempt to build internal opposition, the U.S. has used escalating sanctions and economic destabilization plans against Iran for decades.
The efforts to establish a compliant regime have included military attacks, economic sabotage, and assassinations of Iran’s leaders by the United States and Israel. The U.S. has now brought one of the largest concentrations of military power the world has seen to surround Iran, a country of 90 million people.
There can’t be much doubt that the New York Times is not President Trump’s favorite newspaper. Weeks ago, they included in the Sunday paper a special section that sought to survey the changes that Trump had wrought in his first year. Stripping out any opinion, and looking at “just the fact, ma’am,” it wasn’t hard to make a pretty unvarnished list of changes big and small, narrow and wide across the country, so here goes.
We’re boycotting these corporations who are profiting off of Trump’s racist immigration and deportation agenda and telling their CEOs why we’re fed up.
Send a Letter to These Millionaire CEOs
ICE, Border Patrol, and their umbrella institution—the Department of Homeland Security—have been terrorizing, abusing, and murdering people for months now. We’ve already called on you to demand that the Senate defund these institutions, and now it’s time to boycott companies that make money off of them.
I opened Arthur Baker’s Autobiography Looking For the Perfect Beat knowing I would receive an immersive music lesson. Arthur Baker is a pioneer of both Hip Hop and electronic music. Baker produced Afrika Bambaataa’s Planet Rock.
I haven’t listened to Planet Rock for awhile because I don’t like Afrika Bambaataa’’s pedophilia.
Baker doesn’t discuss Bambaataa’s pedophilia process. Later Arthur Baker shops ideas in Harvey Weinstein’s office with Trainspotting’s Irvine Welsh. Baker doesn’t imply Weinstein sexually assaulted him or Irvine.
I still watch Weinstein produced movies like Fahrenheit 911. I realized I could read about Afrika Bambaataa.
Arthur Baker explains production in important Hip Hop. Planet Rock, and SugarHill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight popularized Hip Hop beyond NYC gyspy cabs.
Arthur Baker isn’t Black but Baker does detail an immersion in Black cultures.
Looking For the Perfect Beat story starts with a child whose heroes were Beatles, Malcolm X, MLK JR, Dylan, and JFK. Yippie.
US Rep. Randy Fine is a Jewish lawmaker from Florida 6th District wants to make it a hate crime and put you in prison for 5 years if you criticize Israel. Later he posted on X, "If they force us to choose the choice between dogs and Muslims, the choice is not a difficult one." In other words, he would rather insult 2 billion Muslims than insult a single dog.
Imagine if a Muslim lawmaker like Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib would have said this about Jews or any other group. The headlines would be screaming for weeks. The double standards are deafening. No outrage expressed by mainstream media, no call for censure, and no call for an apology to Muslims for comparing them to dogs. X would have suspended Omar and Tlaib permanently faster than you can say sticks and bricks.
The Save America Act will destroy democracy in order to save it. Tradition!
Another redux: ICE is the New Klux Klan. Meanwhile, Vietnam joins the Board of Taking a Piece, while the New York Times declares it will uncover wrongdoing without pointing out that it was wrong. Prexy cancels saving the earth, again, since it conflicts with beautiful clean his friends (with benefits, clearly). Israel moves to annex its illegal colonies, while Mamdani moves to convert a business-boosting committee tyo a justice-boosting one. No baby steps here.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan play a variety of songs about Black history and the Black experience, good and bad, in our nation.
Listen live at 11pm Fridays, February 20 and 27 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Mondays at 2pm streaming February 23 and March 2 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
The Texas state education board recently has considered draft legislation that would create the nation’s first-ever statewide K-12 required reading list for public schools. Inevitably, Jewish sourced material is prominent among the texts on the list, including Elie Wiesel’s holocaust memoir “Night” and Anne Frank’s Diary. It appears that the legislation will be approved and, if it is, each of the selected works would become mandatory reading for Texas’s 5.5 million schoolchildren as soon as the 2030-31 school year.
A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one of its most decisive midterm elections ever.
Gallup, however, was stating the obvious. It is a surprise that not all Americans feel this way, judging by the coarse, often outright racist discourse currently being normalized by top American officials. Some call this new rhetoric the "language of humiliation," where officials refer to entire social and racial groups as ‘vermin’, ‘garbage’, or ‘invaders’.