By Mordecai Specktor It’s murder in Minneapolis I stopped by the Pow Wow Grounds coffee shop on Sunday afternoon, January 25. It was the day after Border Patrol agents gunned down Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at the VA hospital in Minneapolis. Pretti was pumped full of US government bullets on Nicollet Avenue just […]

By Mordecai Specktor Manufacturing crimes, again “A federal grand jury today returned a six-count indictment against four members of a far-left, anti-capitalist, and anti-government group that allegedly plotted to set off bombs in Southern California on New Year’s Eve, charging them with additional, terrorism-related felonies,” boasted a Dec. 23 press release from the United States […]

By Mordecai Specktor Leonard Peltier in Minneapolis It was a surrealistic experience to enter the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Nov. 8 and see Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement (AIM) activist who served nearly 50 years in federal prison until his release in February, greeting friends and posing for pictures in a reception room […]