racism
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A Roster of Bigotry: UKIP, the Tories and the Far Right By Tim Holmes
When the racism and bigotry fuelling the EDL-backed UK Independence Party were finally revealed to public view, the results were never going to be pretty. So it proved last week, as the threat to the Tories prompted a huge dirt-digging operation, exposing a party bringing far-right extremism into the mainstream. Continue reading
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Racism, Drugs and Crime By Patricia Murphy-Robinson
16 April 2013 Today, I learned with great sorrow of the death of a woman who had a very profound affect on my life. Born I think, on exactly the same month, day and year as Fidel Castro, Patricia Murphy-Robinson died on 11 April 2013. I knew that she’d been ill having spoken to her Continue reading
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Video: Du Bois Believed Black Workers Must Lead the Struggle for Democracy
Anthony Monteiro Part 2 – On the 145th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois HIS NAME looks at Du Bois’s view on racism, capitalism and the role of black workers Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for February 20 2013: Stopping Obama From Privatizing Education, US Gives Haiti the Gift of Prisons
21 February 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization. Can We Stop Him? Will We? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon By the time his term is over, President Obama and his Race To The Top program will have forced the Continue reading
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Britain: Labour promotes anti-immigrant chauvinism By Jordan Shilton
British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has intensified his party’s promotion of anti-immigrant chauvinism. In two speeches now, Miliband has decried what he terms are uncontrolled levels of immigration, while advocating a strengthening of national identity. Continue reading
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ColdType, August 2012
Cover story is Jonathan Cook’s analysis of the West’s build-up to war in Syria, in which the West’s choice of ‘White Hat’ fighters are those democracy/freedom lovers from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, who are using oil money to fund the dissident forces. Continue reading
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The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism
American racism will always cripple its ability to occupy non-white countries, whose people the U.S. fundamentally disrespects. “The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist nation.” The latest atrocities in Afghanistan… Continue reading
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A Call for the Disavowal of Splittism By Kim Petersen
I have not read every word or heard every speech by Atzmon, but I never came to a conclusion that he was defining anything for Palestinians. Atzmon has been focused on the occupiers, a group he stems from, and what makes them occupier-oppressors, and as a member of the group (he has since renounced allegiance… Continue reading
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The “Lone Gunman” of Kandahar Province? "The Dehumanization of the Enemy" Engrained in the Behavior of US Soldiers… By Andy Dilks
The latest line from the US government on the killings has been to discuss at length the mental state of the gunman. Initially, he was described as being possibly “deranged” at the time of the shootings; then, it was stated that he had suffered a “mental breakdown”, yet another soldier from Fort Lewis-McChord (described by… Continue reading
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The “Lone Gunman” of Kandahar Province? “The Dehumanization of the Enemy” Engrained in the Behavior of US Soldiers… By Andy Dilks
The latest line from the US government on the killings has been to discuss at length the mental state of the gunman. Initially, he was described as being possibly “deranged” at the time of the shootings; then, it was stated that he had suffered a “mental breakdown”, yet another soldier from Fort Lewis-McChord (described by… Continue reading
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No Free Happy Meals for NYPD ‘Stop and Frisk’ Victims
According to its own data, the New York Police Department made over 684,000 street stops in 2011, a 603% increase over 2002, when Mayor Bloomberg first took office, and a 14% increase over 2010. Nearly 90% of “Stop and Frisk” victims are African American and Latino, though they make up only 50% of the city’s… Continue reading
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Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Marshall- Episode 8
29 February 2012 — www.boilingfrogspost.com “Black History in the United States: Slavery, Segregation, and Social Control” In a highly critical black history of the United States, this episode examines the social construction of race (and racism) starting in the late 1600s as a means of social control, devised through the colonial legal system to separate white Continue reading
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A tribute to Joe Bageant: Now the World is a Sadder, Sillier Place By Michael Tallon
This tribute to Joe Bageant originally appeared last May in La Cuadra, a print magazine published in Guatemala. The magazine recently posted the following to the web, and here it is. Continue reading
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NYT Points Out ‘Racist Overtones’ in Libyan Disinformation It Helped Spread By Peter Hart
So stories about African mercenaries are a racist mantra? If that’s the case, then point a finger at media outlets like the New York Times. While the warnings about mass rapes and mercenaries fueled the supporters of the NATO bombing, few reporters have detailed–mostly notably Patrick Cockburn in the Independent–that there was never solid evidence… Continue reading
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After London Police Killing, Media Focus on Problem of Police Restraint By Peter Hart
A former senior riot police officer with knowledge of current operations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the most recent riots were allowed to rage, in part, because police officers felt constrained. Continue reading
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Black Britain Revolts: What If It Had Been New York? By Glen Ford
Britain’s Black rebellion shocked the nation, but has not produced the kind of carnage that routinely accompanies urban unrest in the United States. ‘Had London’s current disturbances occurred on a similar scale in New York City, with outbreaks across the various boroughs, the police would have unleashed a bloodbath.’ Which is not to say that… Continue reading
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Back to the future By William Bowles
Exactly thirty years ago Brixton exploded with rage against the de facto occupation of Brixton by the Met police. And, as I write this, all kinds of madness is going down in various parts of London and elsewhere. Continue reading
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Stop the EDL march in Tower Hamlets
On Saturday 3 September the English Defence League plan to march through the streets of Tower Hamlets. They want peddle their racism and hatred through the heart of one of Britain’s biggest Muslim communities. I am asking for your help to stop them. Continue reading