Tag: Spotlight
I have been in Washington, D.C., for the past week battling the icy and snow-piled sidewalks and streets one week after the big snow and ice storm that immobilized the city for days.
While using the city’s buses and rail, it was apparent that the most probable danger in D.C....
From January 11 to 13, 2026, Lithuania marks the 35th anniversary of the “January Events.”
Three tumultuous days in 1991 culminated in a widely publicized mass shooting of protesters at Vilnius’s TV Tower, with 14 killed and more than 140 injured. Soviet forces purportedly, were responsible.
The bloodshed elicited an avalanche...
The condemnation by local, national and international labor organizations of the illegal January 3, 2026, U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is a welcome development.
The AFL-CIO has declared, succinctly and without elaboration, “We join the international labor community in...
H. Rap Brown was charged for instigating a riot that never took place, and was sent to a Supermax prison after being convicted of a murder to which someone else confessed
On November 23, 2025, Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown and one-time chairman of the Student...
The situation in Cuba is dire as the Trump administration ramps up its campaign to destabilize the country and destroy its revolution...
They ask if our own nation was not using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without...
The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that, in January, U.S. military forces launched at least 25 air strikes in Somalia, a country AFRICOM carried out at least 124 air strikes against in 2025, more than the total bombs dropped on Somalia by the administrations of Joe Biden, Barack Obama and...
In chaotic times like ours, it behooves us to practice proactive optimism, which is far more than infantile hope or pious faith.
Conscious, vigorous optimism is visionary and builds on our awareness of our human identity and dignity. It expresses our faith in humanity, our resolve to be morally and...
Eartha Kitt was a magnetic singer, songwriter and actress who starred as Catwoman in the 1967 season of television’s Batman and was known for her 1953 Christmas song “Santa Baby.”
In the early 1950s, Kitt recorded six top-30 songs. Orson Welles once called her “the most exciting woman in the...
In a December CovertAction Magazine article, I described the Honduran presidential election of November 30 and the accusations of fraud that surrounded it.
Since then, the electoral crisis has only deepened. And the widely criticized and blatant interventions of U.S. President Donald Trump in favor of National Party candidate Nasry...
