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The Gentification of the Left By Mike Wayne, Deidre O’Neill
The post-colonial philosopher Gayatri Spivak once famously asked: ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ Colonialism though is not just about race, it is also about that great unmentionable, class. And class colonization is one of the most central features of British social and political life. Continue reading
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Key Mistakes Sway Jury in Zimmerman Trial: Jury Prevented from Considering Race and “First Aggressor” By Marjorie Cohn
A Southern jury of six women – none of them black – found 28-year-old George Zimmerman’s shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to be justifiable homicide because he acted in self-defense. The jurors were prohibited from considering race. They were instructed only on the parts of self-defense law that helped Zimmerman, and the chief police… Continue reading
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A United Nations For the Rest of Us, But Not For Israel By Mohamed Khodr
On May 15, 2013 Israel will celebrate its 65th year of “independence” (from whom?), a celebration steeped in historical lies, myths, blood, and the forced expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians from their homeland with the political, economic, and military support of the U.S. and Britain, two colonial racist powers who themselves understand the meaning of… Continue reading
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Boston Bombing Involves Clearly Staged Carnage By Sheila Casey
“Does a compelling description of a terrorist attack, replete with ‘eyewitness accounts’ of the terrifying scene, and official pronouncements, constitute an actual event?” – Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy. Continue reading
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Boston Terror Attack Carried Out Right Under Nose of Police and Military
16 April 2013 — Washington’s Blog Terror Bombing Shows that Our Anti-Terrorism Policies Are Ineffective Continue reading
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A TV Network Prematurely Reports Nelson Mandela Died–Do Some Want Him Gone? By Danny Schechter
New York, New York: A South African media outlet, no doubt eager to be first, aired a TV obituary of Nelson Mandela. It was very positive and respectful, except for the fact he hadn’t died. Continue reading
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CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION by Jiang Chunyun
As the old Chinese proverb goes, “To return a kindness with gratitude is a good deed, the act of an upright man; to treat a kindness with ingratitude is a bad deed, the act of a petty man.” These words, “good” and “bad,” “gratitude” and “ingratitude,” have long been the most fundamental criteria for judging… Continue reading
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Video: W.E.B. Du Bois vs Booker T. Washington – Then and Now
20 February, 2013 — The Real News Network Anthony Monteiro : Feb. 23, 2013 is the 145th anniversary of the birth of Du Bois, considered a founder of the civil rights movement and father of Pan Africanism (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Obama Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Peace Laureates, “Drones Apart”. Martin Luther King: “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring.” By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the most blatant act of symbolism, as Africa is now threatened by a President who touted the importance of his African roots four years ago, Obama reaffirmed his Presidential oath today on both Abraham Lincoln’s Bible – and that of Martin Luther King – on the day dedicated to Martin Luther King. Continue reading
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Obama Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Peace Laureates, “Drones Apart”. Martin Luther King: “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring.” By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the most blatant act of symbolism, as Africa is now threatened by a President who touted the importance of his African roots four years ago, Obama reaffirmed his Presidential oath today on both Abraham Lincoln’s Bible – and that of Martin Luther King – on the day dedicated to Martin Luther King. Continue reading
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The Guardian vs. the Conventional Wisdom on Venezuela By Alex Main
Just as it appeared that the current conventional wisdom on Venezuela had spread and hardened irreversibly throughout the major media, on Monday the UK daily The Guardian published an editorial entitled “Venezuela, defying predictions – again.” The piece deftly takes on a few commonly held views found in much of the media coverage of Venezuela. Continue reading
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All 27 UK Foreign Affairs lawyers: Iraq war unlawful. Obama, politicians, US media: no response By Carl Herman
All the lawyers in the UK’s Foreign Affairs Department concluded the US/UK invasion of Iraq was an unlawful War of Aggression. Their expert advice is the most qualified to make that legal determination; all 27 of them were in agreement. Continue reading
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US seeks ‘world supremacy’ through advanced weapons – Russian Security Chief
Nikolay Patrushev, commenting on how atomic weapons play more of a political role than a military one, said the consequences of even a “limited nuclear intervention” are so catastrophic that it makes the usage of such weapons absolutely impossible. Continue reading
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The Legal Creation of Race in America By Devon DB
When examining history, it seems that a narrative has evolved over time that slavery somehow just happened in the United States due to the need for cheap labor and that Africans were chosen because they could do that labor the best. While this is true, it is far from the full reality of the situation.… Continue reading
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Millions Still Without Power As Temperature Nears Freezing In Eastern US By Bill Van Auken
Fear is growing that Sandy’s death toll, already topping 100, will be augmented by further fatalities, caused not by natural disaster but rather the inability and unwillingness of all levels of government and a social system driven by private profit to mount an adequate relief effort for the millions of people left without electricity, heat,… Continue reading
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Australia’s Uranium Bonanza: Making the World a More Dangerous Place By John Pilger
Australia has 40% of the world’s uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is also a non-signatory. The threat of nuclear war between them is constant.… Continue reading
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Apartheid never died in South Africa. It inspired a world order upheld by force and illusion By John Pilger
The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both an historic and contemporary model. Continue reading
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How the Chosen Ones ended Australia’s Olympic Prowess and Revealed a Secret Past By John Pilger
Wally MacArthur was one of the “stolen generation”. The victim of a eugenics-inspired campaign to “breed out the black”, Wally was taken from his mother as a small boy and was destined to become a servant in white society. His gift was speed. Running without shoes, he was the Usain Bolt of his day. Wally… Continue reading
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HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels By Julie Lévesque
In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, people in the US, Canada and the EU, who made donations to those humanitarian organisations and NGOs did not realize that their contribution to Haiti’s reconstruction would be channeled towards the building of five star hotels to house foreign businessmen. Their expectation was that the money would… Continue reading
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