Black Agenda Report 19 October 2017

19 October 2017 — Black Agenda Report

Democrats Deploy the #BlackLivesMatter Brand for 2018 Campaign — The Electoral Justice Project 

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
#BlackLivesMatter claims to be “a global inspriing movement for black liberation.” It’s a brand with lavish corporate funding to put the movement stank on neoliberal black Democrats running in 2018. Continue reading

No, US Didn’t ‘Stand By’ Indonesian Genocide—It Actively Participated

18 October 2017 — FAIR

NYT: U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, Papers Show

US government documents actually show the US playing a much more active role in the Indonesian genocide than this New York Times headline (10/18/17) suggests.

There’s a story in the New York Times today (1/18/17) headlined:

US Stood By as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, Papers Show

“Standing by,” however, is not what the United States did during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–66; rather, it actively supported the massacres, which were applauded at the time by the New York Times.

Continue reading

No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide—It Actively Participated

18 October 2017 — FAIR

NYT: U.S. Stood by as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, Papers Show

US government documents actually show the US playing a much more active role in the Indonesian genocide than this New York Times headline (10/18/17) suggests.

There’s a story in the New York Times today (1/18/17) headlined:

US Stood By as Indonesia Killed a Half-Million People, Papers Show

“Standing by,” however, is not what the United States did during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–66; rather, it actively supported the massacres, which were applauded at the time by the New York Times.

Continue reading