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Professor Sang Hea Kil, a tenured Justice Studies professor at San José State University (SJSU), became widely known for her involvement in pro‑Palestinian campus protests. She was fired in 2025 after the university determined she had violated campus and CSU policies during several protest‑related incidents. In June 2026, however, an arbitrator ruled that her termination was excessive, ordering SJSU to reinstate her with back pay and reduce the penalty to a one‑month unpaid suspension.
Prof. Kil is an Asian American with no roots or affiliation to the Middle East. She is also known for her work with the California Faculty Association (CFA), where she serves as co‑chair of its Palestine, Arab, and Muslim Caucus. She has long been active in student advocacy, labor organizing, and pro‑Palestinian activism across CSU campuses. Like many Americans, Prof. Kil has not shied away from speaking out against injustice — most notably the genocide in Gaza and the plight of the Palestinian people.
I hope Trump, Miller, ICE and all the haters have a great celebration about their Supreme Court’s greenlight for the president to end of temporary protective status for Haitians and Syrians. I’d make a bet this is going to be a case of maybe “they should have been careful about what they wished for.” They’ve already seen fierce push back from agribusiness and farmers on all sides of the political spectrum for diminishing their workforce, forcing them to make allowances or look the other way. Now with more than 1.1 million workers at risk of losing the right to work based on a protective status, they can’t imagine the whelping from their allies and foes in the healthcare, service, industrial, and agricultural sectors.
The Columbus Free Press has a long history of investigating stolen elections beginning with the 2000 election (Bush vs Gore). Our most important contribution was the stolen election of 2004, where George W Bush and Karl Rove stole the election from John Kerry. This election was stolen in Ohio, so the Free P ress orchestrated important public hearings and published “Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election?”. Similarly we reported on Trump's theoretical defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Trump's most recent “win” over Kamala Harris. We recognize that Trump spent 4 years crying about a stolen election that was not stolen (2020), effectively causing Democrats to remain silent, as usual (Trump-cry makes America reluctant to discuss Stolen Elections).
Under Orange King Trump, the wannabe fascist government of the United States is working to ensure there is never a fair election in America again, and are specifically targeting the midterm elections.
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire recently. Is that a good thing for one person to have that much wealth and influence? How feasible are Musk's plans to build spaceships to go the moon, Mars, or other areas of the solar system?
There are some good reasons the US have not gone back to the moon since 1972. Anything can go wrong on a mission as we have seen with Apollo 13, which failed to get to the moon but managed to return to Earth with its astronauts still alive.
There's not much reason to go. There's no life there or no way to grow anything. There's no oil or mining prospects there. The whole moon would have to be covered with gold to reap the enormous expenditures of financing a mission there. Even the worst land on Earth is better than the best land on the moon or Mars. It would certainly be much cheaper to build data centers here.
Every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had a history of colonizing other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people engage in. Here, I want to bring in an issue less discussed in this massive literature, one that challenges colonization via activities that sustain humans and nature or what we can dub “eco-sumud” (ecological steadfastness).
Last July, whistleblowers came forward regarding an NSA-authorized audit conducted in December 2024 showing Kamala Harris won in a landslide. According to those whistleblowers, the findings were buried to protect wealthy pedophiles on both sides of the political aisle from a Harris DOJ.
Last week, on May 8, 2026, Dr. Steven Greer held a major disclosure press conference in which he discussed meeting with one of the most senior figures in national security from a prior administration, as well as Epstein’s role as an intelligence asset:
“He has the audio and video of some files from Epstein island of key people in our intelligence and national security system… that are compromised and are being actively blackmailed… we’re talking blackmailing officials at the highest level that is interfering in the function of government. So that is what Epstein island was it was a honeypot set up by the intelligence community to entrap certain high-value targets and then control them through that process of blackmail.”
There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon.
The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor issue whose pros and cons are assessed solely on the basis of whether they will be successful or unsuccessful in achieving regime change. The kind which views imperialist extraction from the global south as the natural order of the world, with centrists and progressives squabbling only about how evenly that plunder should be distributed among westerners.
The unacceptable type of racism is the kind which affects other westerners. The kind whose consequences western liberals have to see.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan honor the musicians who refused Trump's use of their artistic material and dropped out of the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair this 4th of July.
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