May 3, 2017
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Black Agenda Report for 3 May 2017
3 May 2017 — Black Agenda Report The Challenge in Jackson, Mississippi: To Govern or to Transform by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The political organization of Jackson’s first Mayor Lumumba was divided. Some wanted to embed themselves in Mississippi’s black political class, while others aimed for a far reaching transformation of the local Continue reading
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The Green ‘Nobel’
Six brave people from around the world were awarded the most prestigious environmental award in the world last week — The Goldman Environmental Prize (aka. the ‘Green Nobel’). The award recognises the ordinary people like you and me who do extraordinary things to stand up to corporate power. People like Rodrigue and Prafulla who risked… Continue reading
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NSA: Chiquita Papers: Uncertainty Fueled Staff Concerns about Payments to Guerrillas and Paramilitaries
Chiquita’s Colombia-based staff questioned the company’s payments to illegal armed groups, and asked whether Chiquita had gone beyond extortion and was directly funding the activities of leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups, even while top company executives became “comfortable” with the idea. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 2 May 2017
2 May 2017 — Information Clearing House Reign of Idiots By Chris Hedges There is a familiar checklist for extinction. We are ticking off every item on it. Continue reading
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US-NATO Attacks against Syria Geared Towards “Regime Change”
2 May 2017 — Global Research Selected Articles: The Real Defenders of Democracy: Syria and the Struggle against the International Despotism of Wall Street By Stephen Gowans, May 02, 2017 A more sophisticated view holds that there exists in Syria an indigenous Islamist movement which—though rejecting democracy as a man-made ideology and seeking rule by the Quran Continue reading
The New Dark Age 