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Protesters outside of the Boise event hosting Charles Murray.

White Supremacist Charles Murray Met with Protests in Idaho as National Mobilizations Against Racism Spread

Sam Mayfield and Ben Dangl August 29, 2017 Sam Mayfield and Ben Dangl

At a time when activists around the US are confronting Nazis, white supremacists, and fascists in the streets and in power, Idahoan protesters took a stand against racism in their predominantly Republican state. On Saturday, August 28, dozens of people gathered in Boise to voice their opposition to a political fundraising event hosting notorious white supremacist and sociologist Charles Murray. “His research and his so-called science is used to justify neo-Nazism and white nationalist movements,” one protester explained.

US B-1B Lancer bombing in Afghanistan. President Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in his last year in office.

“Attack We Will:” Trump’s Most Racist Rant Was on Continuing the War in Afghanistan

Brian Terrell August 29, 2017 Brian Terrell

In a speech last week, President Trump announced that the 17 year old war in Afghanistan will go on pretty much as it has. The war against Afghanistan is as much a war about race and white supremacy as was the Civil War. And the violence that we see in American streets is a direct and inevitable result of the violence of our county’s wars abroad.

Number of People Displaced by Climate Change Could Reach One Billion by 2050

Baher Kamal August 28, 2017 Baher Kamal

Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts such as devastating droughts or floods, extreme weather, destruction of land and natural resources, and the consequences of famine and starvation. The speed with which climate change has been taking place might lead to such a scenario by 2050. If so, 1 in 9 human beings would be on the move by then.

Shannon Rivers protested Trump at the Phoenix rally on Tuesday. For Rivers, a tribal citizen of the Akimel O’odham of the Gila River Indian Community, the alliance between indigenous people and Latinos is personal. “Many [Latinos] are our family,” he said. Photo by Jenni Monet.

“This Is Our Land”: Indigenous Rights Activists Respond to White Supremacist Rhetoric

Jenni Monet August 25, 2017 Jenni Monet

“The historical trauma is still happening today. We’re still suffering but in different ways,” said Anthony Thosh Collins, a citizen of the Onk Akimel O’odham with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. For Collins and dozens of other indigenous rights activists, their message in response to recent white supremacist rhetoric was simple: “This is our land.”

The US bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945.

Nuclear Apocalypse: Trump and Kim Should Not Hold the World Hostage

Ramzy Baroud August 25, 2017 Ramzy Baroud

Both Trump and Kim are dubious figures, driven by fragile egos and unsound judgement. Yet, they are both in a position that, if not reigned in soon, could threaten global security and the lives of millions. Neither Washington, nor Pyongyang, Tel Aviv or anyone else should hold the world hostage, exacting political and economic ransom in exchange for not destroying our planet.

The aftermath of a previous demolition of the Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb (Getty Images)

The Resistance of Al-Araqeeb Village: How Palestinian Bedouins Refused to Surrender 116 Times

Ramzy Baroud August 21, 2017 Ramzy Baroud

On August 1, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises, the village resident immediately began rebuilding their homes. If the repeated destruction of the village is an indication of Israel's stubborn insistence to uproot Palestine's Bedouins, the rebuilding is indicative of the tenacity of the Bedouin community in Palestine.