ICE Grants Washington Family 60-Day Reprieve

Charles Washington’s wife and his Australian-born 13-year-old stepson (not pictured)
won a 60-day reprieve yesterday from deportation proceedings following a reexamination
by federal immigration authorities of the family’s legal status.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Hope Johnson and Luke Thomas

March 4, 2010
By now, most of us are aware of the plight of the Washington family.  Until yesterday, native […]

 

Profanity Versus the Truly Profane

Supervisor Chris Daly
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Chris Daly, special to FogCityJournal.com
January 11, 2010
For 2010, I vow to use the word “fuck” in each of my remaining Board of Supervisors meetings.
A funny little status update on Facebook - 15 seconds to compose and share with my group of on-line friends. A minute more to link to […]

 

Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure (Part II)

“Obama wants to do George Bush one better by continuing the worst of his policies,
enact more of his own, and destroy the middle class to turn America
into Guatamala with ruling elites governing a nation of serfs.”
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Stephen Lendman
Author’s Note: Part II concludes an account of Obama’s betrayal, not promised change.
December 23, 2009
Obamacare […]

 

Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure (Part I)

“In Obama’s America, only the privileged have rights,
not people of color, the poor, and growing numbers going hungry,
without jobs, and other life’s essentials his budget allocations won’t fund.”
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Stephen Lendman
December 21, 2009
Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 […]

 

Campos Wins Due Process for Undocumented Youth

Supervisor David Campos was surrounded by reporters and supporters Tuesday
following an historic vote mandating undocumented youth be tried and convicted in a court of law
before being handed over to Federal immigration authorities for deportation proceedings.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
November 13, 2009
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos won an historic veto-proof victory Tuesday for undocumented youth […]

 

Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope in the Age of Obama

In spite of the many evils committed under the two Bush regimes, Chomsky warned that it was the Clinton Doctrine, claiming the US has the right to use extreme force to preserve its global interests, was the most sinister.

 

Police State Raids Against Immigrants

Along with Muslims, Latinos are its prime targets, often using militarized unconstitutional tactics against vulnerable, defenseless people. Post-9/11, the Bush administration initiated them, and they continue under Obama.

 

Glenn Beck’s Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism,
and Racism

Fox News racist Glenn Beck
By Stephen Lendman
September 16, 2009
At a time of 24-hour news and a proliferation of television and radio talk shows featuring hatemongers and demagogues like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck may stand out as the most unhinged and extremist of all as evidenced by his jihad […]

 

FCJ Interview with CA-10 Candidate Anthony Woods

Openly gay, Woods was discharged from the US military in December 2008 after he challenged the Pentagon’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, an ignominious slap in the face to a man who put his life on the line in service of his country.