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Opinion: Capitol assault echoes Civil War-era insurrections Laura Oren FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A flag that reads "Treason" is visible on the ground in the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, after protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)Andrew Harnik, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of3 A member of the mob of Trump supporters carries the Confederate flag inside the Capitol building as Congress met to President-elect Joe Biden's victory, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Experts say the actions of President Donald Trump and his loyal...

Last month an old interview of LeBron James resurfaced that quickly went viral on NBA Twitter. The grainy footage was from a program called HBO’s On the Record with Bob Costas that was recorded shortly before James made the jump from St Vincent-St Mary High to the professional ranks. By then he was already a national sensation – Sports Illustrated had featured him on its cover more than a year earlier under the headline THE CHOSEN ONE – having spent his final season of high school basketball on a barnstorming tour that filled gyms and arenas around the country and sating the intense cur...

I can brave bad weather —Pete Townshend It struck me just the other day that this is indeed the 100th anniversary of the year when Captain Walker came home suddenly and found his wife with another man, killed him, and set the whole plot in motion. This may not be important to anyone but me, but I thought it was worth noting, considering what the odds were that we'd get this far. I mean, between murder hornets, the pandemic, and El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago, being around and healthy at the turning of the year was at longer odds than usual. Without question, this has been the worst year I've e...

Capitalism Is Not Slavery, Socialism Is   Capitalism is slavery. That was the proclamation made by newly elected Congressman Jamaal Bowman during an interview earlier this week. ““I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name,” he said. “We’ve moved from physical chattel enslavement and physical racial segregation to a plantation economic system. One that keeps the majority of Americans unemployed, or underemployed and struggling just to survive, while the power elite continues to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few, and allow large corporations to pr...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Remembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration December 21, 2020 2:19 PM CDT By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II And Elliott Smith At left, Bruce Carver Boynton in a recent photo. At right, an NAACP 'Freedom Bus' in 1961. | AP and Florida State Archives On Dec. 20, 1958, exactly 62 years ago, a young law student on his way home for the ...