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On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT) designation. The SSOT designation will further isolate Cuba diplomatically and economically.
Biden only removed

The Syrian people never gave up in the years since 2011, whether inside the country or in exile, and continue on today amid myriad obstacles

I was born in 1955 in the segregated state of Alabama where the oppressive conditions of segregation meant that my only escape was to “travel in thought” which could only be found in books.

Crucial to a just peace is an alternative vision of the ultimate goal in Palestine: From the river to the sea, freedom and democracy.

Here is my problem with the film.  While enjoyable, it is not a great film.

Register at pepeace.org. Whether or not you make it, all donations go to Community Movement Builders, a “collective of black people creating sustainable, self-determining communities.”

Here’s a brief survey of campist responses post-Assad.

While portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods for Wall Street.

These are just symptoms of the decline of the Democratic party as the supposed party representing the working class and social progress.

I don’t think the election of Trump runs straight along the lines of White racism alone. It reflects racism, sexism and self-hate that includes Black, Brown and Women that voted for

“This dictatorship is worse than it was under Somoza.”

Gilbert Achcar explains the sudden collapse of the Syrian regime