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  Jen St. Denis Today | TheTyee.ca Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This…

Black people made up 61% of cases where police used force that resulted in death, Ontario human rights commission report…

Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Frank Castro, The Hampton Institute | News Analysis photo above:

Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00 By Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! | Video Interview an excerpt: On Wednesday,…

Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Kathy Kelly, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police…

War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence Streams of Justice, September 28, 2009 WN: I was asked by the above-named…

By Sarah Posner Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with this hugely ironic quote, one…

WN: Some of the papers on Restorative Justice are understandably repetitive, though I culling the obviously such. image above: sikhnet.com…

By Cindy Blackstock June 30, 2021 photo above: Memorial to residential school victims outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Shelby Lisk) …

By Alicia Elliott July 12, 2021 photo above: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, referred to by former students as ‘the…

Opinion Maureen Dowd July 10, 2021 photo above: Senator Bernie Sanders heading back to his office after breakfast in Burlington,…

By Ishaan Tharoor with Claire Parker  Email photo above: A man speaks on the phone next to a mural in…

By Marie-Danielle Smith July 8, 2021 illustration above: by Anna Minzhulina WN: Military. Police. Prisons.((See here also.)) All are rife…

By Brian Bethune July 7, 2021 photo above: mindbrews.in WN: Loony and terrifying! You will also find interesting this story…

by Phyllis Bennis July 1, 2021 photo above: Then-US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld addresses a press conference at the…

By The New York Times June 30, 2021 WN: While video images can be selectively strung together, they are real…

Opinion by Ken Dryden May 27, 2021 photo above: Toronto center John Tavares is taken from the ice on a…

By Adnan R. Khan May 11, 2021 photo above: Spec Ops Magazine WN: In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR),…

May 6, 2021 By Alfred McCoy photo above: Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report | Common Dreams News…

The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28…

Opinion by  Max Boot April 28, 2021 photo above: President Biden in the Rose Garden at the White House on…

Opinion by Tammie Gregg and Donna Lieberman April 28, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. PDT image above: Julie Lai for The Washington…

April 27, 2021 by Sonali Kolhatkar image above: Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair chart below: The Washington Post, Fatal Force…

By Jake Jackson April 24, 2021 photo above: Daily Sound and Fury WN: The Prophets and Jesus constantly call us…

By German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Apr 16, 2021 WN: I will embed below the video produced. Please view that…

By Community April 16, 2021 photo above: The quote is from The Talmud. WN: The above from The Talmud echoes…

April 19, 2021 Ibram X. Kendi, Contributing writer at The Atlantic photo above: Charmaine Edwards (left) speaks to supporters during…

Gabe Ortiz Daily Kos Staff Monday April 19, 2021 photo above: AP WN: A man in our Home Improvement Group…

By BRAKKTON BOOKER 04/13/2021 WN: Words fail. . . . Please also see here and here: Black Toronto residents 20…

March 24, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic photo above: wisegeek.com WN: The "new model" called for in…

Dangerous, racist and falling apart. By nearly every metric, the nation's penal system is not just failing, it's making things…

March 26, 2020 by Ramzy Baroud photo above: Sgt. Paul L. Anstine III, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain WN:…

By Peter Manseau Feb. 19, 2021 photo above: Michael Sparks, far left, stands with other Trump supporters as they are…

February 10, 2021 by Gary Leupp photo above: via The Huffington Post WN: One can imagine with the above photo…

A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. By Timothy Snyder Jan. 9,…

Jesus Was a Victim of Empire. Acknowledging This Should Transform Christianity. By Christine Mungai, Truthout Part of the Series: Religion's…

Manmeet Singh Bhullar Left A Legacy Of Making Others Feel Like They Belong The grief and lessons, five years after…

Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and…

11/19/2020 By Samantha Beattie photo above: Jeff McIntosh/THE CANADIAN PRESS WN: My short response to the current Commissioner: She does…

When our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they have no…

Trump's Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election? I'm a Democrat, they're Republicans. Healing the political…

The Intersection of Memory and History: A Review of “The Trial of the Chicago Seven,” written and directed by Aaron…

by Wade Davis August 6, 2020 Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the…

Published on Thursday, August 06, 2020 by Common Dreams by Rev. John Dear photo above: "Our message over the years…

Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment…

WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.…

Beyond the Economic Chaos of Coronavirus Is a Global War Economy By William I. Robinson, Truthout March 23, 2020 photo…

by William T. Cavanaugh first published in: Modem Theology 11:4 October 1995 ISSN 0266-7177 WN: Dr. Cavanaugh has been producing…

There are legitimate grounds to probe the intelligence officials behind the all-consuming Trump-Russia affair. By Aaron Maté October 28, 2019…

Oct 28, 2019 Opinion | TD originals sketch above: Mr. Fish / Truthdig Chris Hedges Columnist Chris Hedges is a…

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research, October 24, 2019 “If this [U.S.] government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took…

Of Course a US President Can Murder Somebody Without Legal Jeopardy—Ain't That Great! Published on Saturday, October 26, 2019 by…

It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the…

photo above: Kelly Lytle Hernández, who received the MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, views prison abolition through the eyes of rebels Fri…

October 1, 2019 by Victor Grossman WN: Indeed! excerpts: Yes, we all detest Trump and would be gladdened and relieved…

October 1, 2019 by Paul Street photo above: White House – Public Domain WN: This is a powerful broadside against…

Sep 30, 2019 TD originals Bill Blum photo above: President Donald Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence at left, takes…

Daniel Pantaleo suffered the absolute minimal consequence for killing Eric Garner. The fact that the police union is throwing a…

By Cade Metz July 13, 2019 photo above: The Brainwash database, created by Stanford University researchers, contained more than 10,000…

How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration Camps? By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published July 4, 2019…

Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen photo above: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem WN: Randy…

Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted. A stunningly successful experiment has the potential to upend the mainstream US approach to…

Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism March 15, 2019 by Ben Debney drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair WN:…

Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Published March 14, 2019 photo above:…

On the Record: Jody Wilson-Raybould’s Devastating Testimony on the SNC-Lavalin Scandal Trudeau tried to pressure justice minister to cut deal…

How Colin Kaepernick Beat the NFL His settlement with the league is a major victory for the leader of the…

Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons Natasha Lennard February 9 2019, 6:00 a.m.…

Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration WN: The article highlighted below is outstanding commentary on the…

Former New York Times reporter slams grand jury report on clerical abuse Jan 11, 2019 by Thomas Reese, Religion News…

Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics “All I’m saying is don’t act like the way…

Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Polling A new Washington Post Fact Checker poll Take…

February 06, 2017 by Vern Redekop WN: Anything my friend and scholar Vern Redekop writes -- and he is prolific!…

The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians. By Eliza Griswold…

The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean August 24, 2018 Slavery…

By William Rivers Pitt Truthout, Published July 4, 2018 WN: I love it when people not necessarily in the faith…

Posted on July 21, 2015 by christian hegemony Challenging Christian Hegemony Practical tools for recognizing and resisting Christian dominance WN:…

Jan 25, 2018 by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service Opinion photo above: Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley,…

For years, racism has been defined by the violence of far-right extremists, but a more insidious kind of prejudice can…

SEP 11, 2017 Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and…

The hate must end. August 13, 2017 This weekend, hundreds of alt-right white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, to hold…

August 12, 2017 John Kiriakou Contributor photo above: President Kennedy minutes before his assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.…

Friday, June 30, 2017 by Abby Zimet, staff writer full text: For a break from the current squalor, we pay…

AUGUST 24, 2016 by ERIC DRAITSER WN: White Supremacy has many disguised faces. One is "white liberal", worn by those…

Dear friends, The unimaginable has happened. President Trump. And worse, there are Trumps in every town. Threatening all our democracies.…

December 16, 2015 Watch Full Show DemocracyNow! WN: The audience booed when conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked evangelical neurosurgeon…

In a 25-minute interview with John Pilger, an award-winning Australian journalist, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange summarized his analysis of emails…

Tomgram: Ann Jones, Donald Trump's Open Carry | TomDispatch By Ann Jones an excerpt: Donald Trump grabbed a new lifeline.…

How Trump stopped the gaslighting of America. By Matthew Arnold October 26 9:07 photo above: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump…

by Flyn Ritchie October 21, 2016 photo above: Gwendoline Allison was one of several speakers at an October 18 press…

Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation - Truthdig Posted on Sep 29, 2016 By Marjorie Cohn President Obama has…

“The urgency to create change is at an all-time high.” 07/13/2016 09:04 pm ET Updated Jul 15, 2016 Read the…

September 26, 2014 by CHARLES R. LARSON WN: There is someone of my acquaintance who rails against the US Black…

photo above (from this article): A sign marking the number of days activists have occupied Freedom Square, an encampment across…

There’s a power in using our privilege as American Jews to stand for peace and justice. By Ilana Sumka August…

photo above: “John Wayne,” an active- duty serviceman, watches his trainer demonstrate a “controlled pair”—two shots to the center of…

Written by  Aline Fontaine and Morgane Remy, Translation by Leslie Thatcher By Aline Fontaine and Morgane Remy and Translated by…

His statement on the shootings of African-Americans and the targeting of police officers July 25, 2016 an excerpt: “As a…

Friday, 22 July 2016 05:14 MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT an excerpt:   "Law and order" were the…

Posted by Rebecca Gordon at 4:00pm, July 17, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch Photo above: US Predator drone an…

Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police With Little Oversight Douglas Gillison, Nick…

Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00 By Michelle Chen, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Motorcycle officers in a motorcade escort for…

The video features celebrities such as Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, and Rihanna. Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn Jul. 13, 2016 6:50 PM In the…

Sunday, 10 July 2016 00:00 By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police…

Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Aislinn Pulley, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators protest police violence after Alton Sterling…

photo above: President Barack Obama convenes a meeting in the Situation Room to discuss the latest on the San Bernardino,…

2 May 2016 Joseph Margulies photo above: Joseph Margulies an excerpt: Do you want to know the real problem with…

Friday, 03 June 2016 00:00 By James Kilgore, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Image:

Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Report an excerpt: AMY GOODMAN: Jules Boykoff, can…

WN: Another now-and-then article. An excerpt: In Western civilization, logic and ethics are usually mutually exclusive, while ideology and ethics…

WN: I love this story! Father Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Christian still very active today (and now Archbishop Chacour) in…

image above: hub.wsu.edu WN: This is a true story in which in 2000 we intervened on behalf of a friend,…

WN: War and Hell is an interactive essay with a movie and a book. The movie: Saving Private Ryan. The…