This week in Black Agenda Report 5 February 2014: Whitening Detroit, Documents Prove DEA Coached Cops To Lie, Legal Lynchings

5 February 2014 — Black Agenda Report

This week in Black Agenda Report

“Operation Afro-Dilution”: Michigan’s Plan to Flood Detroit with Upscale Immigrants

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

 It is the general consensus among white people that Detroit’s problem is, too many Blacks. Michigan’s governor has a solution: flood the city with upscale green card holders. “An infusion of global migrants would enable Detroit’s corporate masters to market the metropolis as a ‘cosmopolitan’ urban cocktail, as opposed to the nation’s largest ‘Chocolate City.’”

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 4 February 2014

4 February 2014 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Press Release: Israeli Forces Raid Ein Hijleh As Villagers Remain Steadfast
IMEMC – February 4, 2014 – Large numbers of Israeli soldiers and Border Police have made several attempts to raid the reclaimed village of Ein Hijleh and in return the villagers stopped their forced advancement into the center of the village. …
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Ukraine and the pro-imperialist intellectuals By Alex Lantier

5 February 2014 — WSWS

The “Open letter on the future of Ukraine” issued by a group of Western academics and foreign policy operatives is a vile defense of the ongoing far-right protests in Ukraine supported by Washington and the European Union (EU). It peddles the old lie, repeated over nearly a quarter century of imperialist wars and interventions in Eastern Europe since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, that US and EU policy is driven only by a disinterested love of democracy and human rights.

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