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There isn't a Biggest Story for Today, yet.
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| Saturday, April 08 | | · | An Interview with William Blum |
| Saturday, January 07 | | · | What about the quality of justice from Blacks? |
| Friday, December 23 | | · | The Double Standard of Righteous Indignation |
| Friday, December 16 | | · | Angela Davis on The Execution of Stanley Tookie Williams |
| Tuesday, December 13 | | · | Bush Sr. and North Should Join Tookie Williams |
| Monday, December 05 | | · | A Conversation with Stanley Tookie Williams |
| Tuesday, October 18 | | · | Bill O'Reilly's Racist Distortion of History |
| Tuesday, September 13 | | · | New Orleans Unmasks 'Apartheid, American Style' |
| Monday, May 09 | | · | US Totalitarian Tendencies exposed |
| Tuesday, May 03 | | · | Lobbyists or Organizers? |
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What "We Want Our Country Back" Really Means
By Margaret Kimberley
August 06, 2010 - blackagendareport.com
The founding fathers made one thing perfectly clear when they ratified the constitution in 1787. Full citizenship rights were meant only for white men of property. Over a period of nearly 200 years, people’s movements guaranteed that those rights were extended to everyone regardless of race or gender, but the fact that the struggle literally took centuries should not be forgotten. It is tempting to snicker at the sight of today’s Tea Party members, grown men wearing knee breeches and three-cornered hats. Yet their costumes tell an important tale. They evoke an era still seen as the high water mark of American society, the days of the enslavement of one race and the extermination of another. This movement has captured the Republican Party outright and leaves even some Democratic politicians and pundits in a state of fear and/or awe.
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The Anti-Empire Report
By William Blum
May 14, 2010 - killinghope.org
Terminally-dumb people have always been with us of, course. It can't be that we've suddenly gone stupid.
If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teaparty followers of Sarah "Africa is a country" Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh … If you have thoughts of moving abroad after the latest silly lies and fantasies like "Obama the Marxist" and "Obama the antichrist" … If you share Noam Chomsky's feeling: "I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime" … keep in mind that the right wing has long been at least as stupid and as mean-spirited. Consider some of the behavior of the same types for half a century during the Cold War with its beloved — albeit imaginary — "International Communist Conspiracy".
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Inside U.S.A.: The Right, the Left and the Ugly: Fear and Loathing in White America
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By BAR executive editor Glen Ford
March 12, 2010 - blackagendareport.com
"Are we witnessing a left-right convergence – or two fundamentally opposed camps intersecting at a certain point in time on the way to very different destinations?"
When President George Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first, unsuccessfully, attempted to ram a bank bailout bill through the U.S. House in late September 2008, only one-third of Republicans and three-fifths of Democrats voted for the measure. The Congressional Black Caucus was opposed, 21 to 18, with the more progressive CBC members mostly voting No. Former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich asked, "Is this the U.S. Congress or the board of directors at Goldman Sachs?" Two-thirds of the GOP Caucus bucked their president.
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Racism Watch: The State of Black America: From Oscar Grant to Barack Obama
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By Ron Jacobs
January 15, 2009
counterpunch.org
I was out in Oakland, CA. this past weekend for a friend's birthday. Naturally, I visited Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley--my old stomping grounds--while I was there. Things have changed there while remaining the same. The area is certainly much more ethnically diverse. Gentrification has slithered in, but its presence is quite minimal when compared to other sections of Berkeley, Oakland or San Francisco.
Peoples Park looks better than it has in years, with its native plant life dominating the east and west ends of that small piece of turf where so many battles have been fought. Doorways that used to shelter street people have been blocked off and some benches have been removed from areas where those same folks used to relax.
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Racism as Reflex
By Tim Wise
September 29, 2008
counterpunch.org
If hypocrisy were currency, conservatives would be able to single-handedly bail out the nation's free-falling financial system in less than a week, without the rest of us having to front so much as a penny.
So on the one hand, folks like this always tell others--especially the poor and people of color--to take "personal responsibility" for their lives, and not to blame outside factors (like racism, or the economic system) for their problems. But on the other hand, these same persons then demonstrate that their own ability to blame others for their personal setbacks, or the nation's problems, knows no rival.
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By Rootsie
February 12, 2008
www.rootsie.com
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,–
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
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Some things you need to know before the world ends
by William Blum, killinghope.org
March 5, 2007
Flash! This just in! The Cold War was not a struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
It was a struggle between the United States and the Third World. What there was, was people all over the Third World fighting for economic and political changes against US-supported repressive regimes, or setting up their own progressive governments. These acts of self-determination didn't coincide with the needs of the American power elite, and so the United States moved to crush those governments and movements even though the Soviet Union was playing virtually no role at all in these scenarios. (It is remarkable the number of people who make fun of conspiracy theories but who accepted without question the existence of an International Communist Conspiracy.)
Washington officials of course couldn't say that they were intervening to block economic or political change, so they called it "fighting communism", fighting a communist conspiracy, fighting for freedom and democracy.
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Inside U.S.A.: The Real Meaning of a Democratic Sweep: NeoCons or Liberals?
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By Dr. Carolyn Baker, Global Research
November 8, 2006
For the past six years we have been held hostage by the neocon mob of the George W. Bush administration, selected in 2000 by the Supreme Court and taking power again in 2004 through countless dirty electoral tricks, particularly in the state of Ohio, abundantly documented by researchers of electronic voting. No one should assume that dirty tricks were not again in the works as the Democrats swept the Congressional elections of 2006 this week, followed the next day by the resignation of Dr. Death, Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Bev Harris' recent documentary, "Hacking Democracy" made very clear that both parties have been complicit in election-rigging. What is certain, however, as one witnesses the Democratic sweep is that neocon policies are guaranteed to be supplanted by neoliberal ones.
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By Dr. Kwame Nantambu, trinicenter.com
October 09, 2006
Within recent times, it has been suggested that the international community is angered that the Islamic Republic of Iran has "enriched uranium" that may lead to Iran eventually possessing a nuclear bomb.
The notion has also been bandied about that the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly stated that, "Israel should be wiped off the map."
While the latter is steeped in largely misunderstood historical precedents, however, another variable must be factored in, that is, the State of Israel is the only supreme nuclear power in the Middle East. In addition, Israel has been posited to serve, protect and defend American and European interests in that region ever since its formation on 14 May, 1948.
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An Interview with Roderick Bush
By Ron Jacobs, MRZine.org
Roderick Bush is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at St. John's University in New York. He is the author of We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century (NYU Press, 1999) and an activist. Mr. Bush grew up in the US's Jim Crow South and moved to Rochester, NY in 1959. He attended one of the premier Black universities in the US -- Howard University in Washington, DC -- during the height of the Black Power movement at the school. He went on to begin work on his doctorate at Kansas University, but he left the program to become a full-time political activist. After several years, he returned to academia in 1988, hoping to find what he called "the Long March" towards liberation, only to discover that the Movement had dissolved and that there were no organizations carrying the struggle onward. Professor Bush is currently working on a book entitled The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line, to be published in the Fall of 2007 by Temple University Press, and with Melanie E.L. Bush on a book which they have tentatively entitled Tensions in the "American" Dream: The Imperial Nation Confronts the Liberation of Nations. Earlier this year, we exchanged a couple of emails and I asked him to send me a copy of his book to review. After reading the text, I felt that the best way to get the analysis and message of the book out there would be an interview. What follows is a somewhat lengthy exchange. I encourage readers to take the time and read the entire piece. It's provocative, educational, and useful. Plus, it's a good read.
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Seymour Hersh: U.S. Helped Plan Israeli Attack, Cheney "Convinced" Assault on Lebanon Could Serve as Prelude to Preemptive Attack on Iran
By DemocracyNow.org
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports in this week's issue of the New Yorker that Israeli officials visited the White House earlier this summer to get a "green light" for an attack on Lebanon. The Bush administration approved, Hersh says, in part to remove Hezbollah as a deterrent to a potential US bombing of Iran.
AMY GOODMAN: Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He joins us in Washington, D.C. His latest piece is called "Watching Lebanon: Washington's Interests in Israel's War." We welcome you to Democracy Now!, Seymour Hersh.
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By Kurt Nimmo, kurtnimmo.com
In regard to arrested Nuwaubians in Miami, Time Magazine writes: "The arrested men appear to be part of a cult organization proclaiming itself to be Muslim—although a member of the same religious group says it is, in fact, based on a homebrew of Islam and Christianity, and calls itself 'Seas of David.' Its members, mainly Americans and Haitan (sic) immigrants, clearly have an enthusiasm for emulating and following al-Qaeda. But their only 'connection' with al-Qaeda appears to have been the fact that a government informant who had infiltrated their ranks had apparently convinced the alleged conspirators that he was, in fact, a Qaeda operative. The oaths of allegiance to the organization alleged by the indictment to have been taken by the accused were administered not by any representative of the organization, but to a U.S. government agent posing as a Qaeda operative."
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by Margaret Kimberley
BC Editor and Senior Commentator
Does George W. Bush have the numbers 6, 6, and 6 tattooed on his head? In recent years it has become popular for every calamity, natural or man made, to be ascribed to the end times, the last days, Armageddon. If the end is near, the nation most responsible is the United States of America.
Throughout history human beings have competed with Mother Nature in the killing business, and humans win hands down. The Middle Passage, the American Indian holocaust, Stalin's purges and Hitler's concentration camps took out many more millions than bad weather, or shifting tectonic plates. If no one speaks up to stop Bush and does so very soon, that awful trend will continue.
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by Margaret Kimberley
BC Editor and Senior Commentator
www.blackcommentator.com
Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly and other cable television blowhards have appointed themselves crusaders against illegal immigration to the United States. If tempted to succumb to their awful siren song, just think of the Wampanoag Indians.
In 1621 the Wampanoags watched as the Pilgrims landed at what is now known as Plymouth Rock. You know the rest of the story. The Indians were killed by warfare and disease. Treaties were broken and land was stolen. The horrific scenario played out across the rest of the nation for almost 300 years. The Iroquois, Seminoles, Choctaws, Lakotas, and Apaches all got the same treatment.
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