December 11, 2013
-
Book Review: From the Bullet to the Ballot: An Unfavorable Review of a Work on the Black Panther Party Bruce A. Dixon
Historians are supposed to help us make sense of the world, by illuminating the forces and trends that shape the lives and destinies of ordinary people. But historians in the service of power do something else. Whether carelessly or carefully, they omit and distort to come up with histories that justify today’s establishment as the… Continue reading
-
Video: The Secret History of How Cuba Helped End Apartheid in South Africa
As the world focuses on Tuesday’s historic handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro, we look back at the pivotal role Cuba played in ending apartheid and why Castro was one of only five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela’s memorial. In the words of Mandela, the Cubans ‘destroyed the myth… Continue reading
-
Britain: Disabled widow commits suicide after benefits withdrawn By Mark Blackwood and Paul Mitchell
Despite being partially sighted, only able to walk with the aid of a cane and in constant pain due to slipped discs, Jacqueline Harris, a 53-year-old former nurse from Bristol, England, was pronounced fit for work in November 2012, following a government Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Continue reading
-
Brave Words from a Bully Pulpit By Kiri Kankhwende
With current transitional controls imposed on Bulgarians and Romanians moving to Britain due to be lifted in January, anti-EU, and in particular, anti-Roma rhetoric is ramping up. Continue reading
-
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 December 2013: PPS: “5000 Palestinians, Including 200 Children, Imprisoned By Israel”
10 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterGunmen Kill A Palestinian Officer In BethlehemIMEMC – The Palestinian Police in the West bank district of Bethlehem, has reported that an officer was shot and killed, on Tuesday [December 10 2012], after gunmen opened fire at a Police station in Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem. Continue reading
-
CIA and Mandela: Can the Story Be Told Now? Agency's role in Mandela capture still mostly not news
Back in 1990, FAIR (Extra!, 3/90) noted that the media coverage of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison failed to mention there was strong evidence that the CIA had tipped off South African authorities to Mandela’s location in 1962, resulting in his arrest. So with coverage of Mandela’s death dominating the media now, can the story… Continue reading
-
Information Clearing house 10 December 2013: America’s Gulag: Obama Sentences Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart to Death
10 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Mass Murder in the Middle East is Funded by Our Friends the Saudis By Patrick Cockburn Everyone knows where al-Qa’ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37077.htm Continue reading
-
The problem of patriotism and the left By Gerry Hassan
The Guardian editor being asked if he loves his country highlights how much of a problem the British left has with patriotism. With Scottish and EU questions being posed, this problem is coming to a head. Continue reading
-
Police, protest and the fragility of capital By Matt Bolton
The de-facto criminalisation of lawful protest by the British police only serves to highlight the fragility of the market order in its post-08 slump. Continue reading
-
“Mandela and Just People” By John Bart Gerald
And there are all those who fought South Africa’s apartheid in other countries. Payment in social justice is owed by wealthy South Africans, foreign corporations at work in South Africa, each of the Euro-American leaders flocking to South Africa with their final respects. The un-stated portion of their respect is that the independence Mandela won… Continue reading
-
“Mandela and Just People” By John Bart Gerald
And there are all those who fought South Africa’s apartheid in other countries. Payment in social justice is owed by wealthy South Africans, foreign corporations at work in South Africa, each of the Euro-American leaders flocking to South Africa with their final respects. The un-stated portion of their respect is that the independence Mandela won… Continue reading
-
Read This Before You Take That Statin By Barbara Roberts and Martha Rosenberg
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to “build healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.” Yet in its 2011-2012 financial statement, the AHA noted $521 million in donations from non-government and non-membership sources and many well-known large drug companies, including those who make and market statins, contribute amounts… Continue reading
-
Reflections on the Iran nuclear deal By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
The underlying logic for the Iran nuclear negotiations was and continues to be preposterous: on one side of the negotiating table sat major nuclear powers who are all in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires them to have either dismantled or drastically reduced their nuclear arsenal; on the other side, an NPT-… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 