Spear staff

Puerto Rico’s government officials recently announced that the country will not be able to concurrently provide necessary social services and satisfy its $2-billion-dollar debt payment due on July 1, 2016

The Puerto Rican government is currently contending with a $70-billion-dollar debt crisis while also experiencing an intractable 10-year economic slump.

Between 2005 and 2015, Puerto Rico’s gross national product (GNP)—the total value of all goods and services produced by Puerto Rican-owned firms—decreased by 14 percent as its debt rose to over 100 percent of GNP.

This means that the country’s debt is greater than its income.

It is nearing the August 2016 election time in local municipalities of Occupied Azania (South Africa) and all neocolonial political parties in the country have begun campaigning!

From the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA), all the way to the radical sounding Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the masses in Occupied Azania are being told what each party will do for the people.

It is a grand contest all over the country––but the question remains the same as it has since South Africa was born: what about the African working class and its interests?

Cincinnati, OH––Isaiah, three-year old African boy, fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio on May 28, 2016. Isaiah was in the gorilla enclosure with a 400-pound teenage lowland gorilla, who the zoo named Harambe, for approximately ten minutes before the zoo’s animal response team killed the animal with a shotgun. 

Colonial media media and the white population blames the mother for the death of the gorilla. We are clear that imperialism led to the gorilla's death. 

The St. Louis branch of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) will be hosting an event entitled “Black Community Control of the Police!: A BLACK POWER Demand” on Sunday, June 5, 2016  from 4-6 p.m. at Legacy Books & Café, located at 5249 Delmar Blvd.

Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the APSP will be the keynote spearker. Yeshica Clemmons, mother of Dominique Battle who was murdered by Florida sheriff's deputies; and Tani Taylor, mother of Cary Ball who was murdered by St. Louis cops will be featured speakers.

Republican candidate Donald Trump is set to be the Republican Party nominee for U.S. president. The candidacy is historic and unexpected for many.

As of May 31, 2016, Donald Trump has won enough state primary elections to secure the 1239 delegates needed to win the nomination if the delegates from those states vote according to the wishes of the people in the state during the Republican National Convention.

Walker County, TX––Symone Nicole Marshall was arrested and taken to Walker County Jail instead of a hospital after a car accident where her vehicle flipped over several times. Waker County sheriffs refused to privide her with medical treatment, even when she repeatedly requested it. Symone died in jail two weeks after her arrest.

Houston, TX––The Houston chapter of the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) will host its 4^th Annual “Juneteenth (Not Yet Uhuru): Freedom and Music Festival” on Saturday,  June 18, 2016 from 12-9pm at the 5^th Ward Community Garden, which is located at 3707 Brill Street.

U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama arrived in Riyadh on April 20, 2016 amidst crisis between the U.S. and Saudi Arabian governments.  

For decades, the sell-out Saudi royal family has been a key puppet of U.S. imperialism in the region.

The growing strength of the people’s resistance in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Turkey, Yemen, Bahrain and in Saudi Arabia itself as well as the developing power of Iran are the primary causes that are forcing a rethink of relationship throughout the region.

Baltimore pig Edward Nero was found not guilty by the colonial judicial system on all charges in the murder of 25-year-old Freddie Gray on May 23, 2016.