Commentaries

As the nation slinks toward the presidential election, filled more with dread than hope, they gather in support more of personality than program.They are voting for images crafted by billion-dollar ad campaigns, but also for… Full Transcript

And here we go again. A man armed with semi-automatic weapons unleashes his pent-up rage and alienation on his fellow Americans. He kills nearly a dozen people – men, women and babies – and wounds… Full Transcript

The greatest championship in tennis – Wimbledon – has just ended, and once more, the incredible Williams sisters – Venus and Serena – have risen to the occasion. Serena, at 30 years old, first won… Full Transcript

My name is Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Mumia Abu Jamal’s deep and resilient voice has been silenced and censored! I will read to you one of his illuminating commentary’s written on the occasion on Nelson Mandela’s… Full Transcript

It is a tale of the times that America’s highest court, the Supreme Court, could rule on the controversial issue of immigration, and both sides could claim victory. If ever one wondered if the court… Full Transcript

For a brief moment in time, the name and fate of Trayvon Martin broke through the daily media fog, and touched the lives of tens of thousands of people, motivating them, mobilizing them and moving… Full Transcript

Mention the name, Rodney King, and people react. They might react in different ways, but they react. For almost no one is neutral. His name is evocative because it ties you to one of the… Full Transcript

When Egyptians massed in Tahrir Square a year and ½ ago, denouncing the corrupt, Western-backed regime of Husni Mubarak, the West was faced with a quandary: How to retain Mubarakism without Mubarak? After many months… Full Transcript

Ona Move! What is Global Liberation? Is it the election of people that, (we think), thinks like us? Is it the replacement of one system with another one? Is it the imposition of more humanistic… Full Transcript

Christopher Mbewe lives in a legal nightmare. He is a lifer, having been convicted of first degree murder of his wife’s mother, Carol Tollan, back in Dec., 2005. This, despite the fact that no murder… Full Transcript