March 22, 2018 U.S.A.: Ruchell Cinque Magee: (see previous): writing in BayView Magee lets us know his parole application will be heard by the state under a federal mandate requiring release of prisoners over 60 that have served over 25 years. He’s 79 this month held more than 54 years in a California state […]

Genetic study undermines Hindu nationalist theory – The National: The paper, titled The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia, instead suggests that India was home to several mixed populations, and that pastoralists who moved to India from Central Asia are likely to have brought with them an Indo-European language closely related to Sanskrit. The […]

Netanyahu says African migrants a ‘worse threat’ than jihadists | IOL News – “Were it not for the fence, we would be faced with… severe attacks by Sinai terrorists, and something much worse, a flood of illegal migrants from Africa,” Netanyahu’s office quoted him as telling a development conference in the southern Israel desert town […]

How (and Where) Did Hannibal Cross the Alps? Experts Finally Have Answers – However, in “Secrets of the Dead: Hannibal in the Alps,” a new documentary airing on PBS tonight (April 10), a team of experts takes a fresh look at Hannibal’s incredible trip across treacherous mountain terrain. Together, they re-create his long-lost route and […]

#Flashback // BBC News – Published on 7 Apr 2017 Syria war: US launches missile strikes in response to ‘chemical attack’ – BBC News – 7 April 2017 // – The US has carried out a missile strike against a Syrian air base in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. […]

Leaked Docs Show Neo-Nazis Building Bombs to Protect Themselves From Antifa – “I fucking love having you at events with your molotovs and smoke bombs from home,” one TWP member—apparently Parrott’s wife—told another. She implied that they had left explosives for Spencer as a gift. “I wonder what Spencer thought of the molotovs on his […]

Martin Luther King’s Memory Is Sometimes Used to Criticize Black Youth – The Atlantic – In the 50 years since his assassination, the memory of King, as fuzzy a thing as memories are, has been used as a cudgel of moral authority. Americans have crafted a version of King that is a perfect black manhood. […]

– Summary: FWR host @TheAngryindian continues to explore the not-so-odd ideological relationship(s) between various factions of the far-right and elements of the far-left – that by philosophical and historical rights – should be dead-set against everything the neo-Nazi/White Nationalist/pro-Xenophobic milieu is about as opposed to active support for their neo-fascist madness. EXTRAS: Harvested news media […]

Staff writer, Al Arabiya English // IN PICTURES: How German women suffered largest mass rape in history by Soviets – Al Arabiya English – “Our fellows were so sex-starved,” a Soviet major told a British journalist at the time, “that they often raped old women of sixty, seventy or even eighty – much to these […]

Chief Wahoo fans hurl insults at Native Americans during Cleveland Indians’ home opener | cleveland.com – Led by the Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance, demonstrators marched from West 25th Street to the Ontario Avenue side of Progressive Field, where they held signs and chanted at people entering the ballpark. In January, Indians […]

Zapatista Women Inspire The Fight Against Patriarchy | PopularResistance.Org – To a casual observer, this place might have seemed similar to any mainstream festival campsite. A distinguishing factor, however, was that there wasn’t a single man in sight. The sign on the main entrance left no one in doubt that only women and children were […]

eNCA to broadcast ‘Winnie’ documentary – Winnie explores Mandikizela-Mandela’s contribution to the struggle against apartheid from inside the country and includes interviews with Madikizela-Mandela herself, those who were closest to her, and those who sought to extinguish her radical capacity to shake up the order of things. “With acquisition of the rights to Winnie, the […]

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela ¡presente! – Workers World – She was an inspiration to oppressed women worldwide who joined the mass anti-apartheid solidarity movement, including this writer, who was a founding member of the U.S. Out of Southern Africa Network. That organization demanded U.S. corporations divest from the economy of the racist apartheid regime in the mid-1980s. […]

¿Qué es el CNI? – Congreso Nacional Indígena – El Congreso Nacional Indígena se constituyó el 12 de octubre de 1996, planteándose ser la casa de todos los pueblos indígenas, es decir un espacio donde los pueblos originarios encontraramos el espacio de reflexión y solidaridad para fortalecer nuestras luchas de resistencia y rebeldía, con nuestras […]

Fact check: Were 400 white South African farmers murdered last year? – Fact Check – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) – Such attacks can include assault, rape, murder and at times, torture — examples of which are documented by the Afrikaner civil rights group AfriForum. Johan Burger, a senior researcher with South Africa’s Institute for […]

ICE Has No Plans to Deport This WWII-Era Nazi War-Criminal Immigrant | Alternet // Palij was reportedly a guard at the Treblinka death camp, where 6,000 Jews were murdered. He was also a member of the armed forces at Trawniki extermination camp, where participants in “Operation Reinhard,” an ambiguously named plan to massacre two million […]

inquisitr.com // On South Africa’s White Genocide Myth And How Right-Wing Afrikaners Are Dividing The Nation [Opinion] – What is even more mystifying, is that Afrikaners often cite the work of Dr. Stanton when they make their misleading claims of being the victims of ethnic cleansing. This kind of false rhetoric is extremely dangerous, not […]

AP analysis: 50 years after King’s assassination, blacks still largely left out among high-paying jobs | Crain’s Detroit Business – Instead, many black workers find jobs in low-wage, less-prestigious fields where they’re overrepresented, such as food service or preparation, building maintenance and office work, the AP analysis found. In one of his final speeches, King […]

FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? | PBS NewsHour // In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists. The bulletin was released during a period of scandal for many […]

— — By Nathan Morley (Cyprus Mail Newspaper,Nicosia) // CIA could have shot Dag Hammarskjöld plane, says new investigative bookbook – Zambian Watchdog – The powerful claims feature in a new book called Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld by academic Susan Williams, which presents a four-year probe outlining the possibility that foul play was behind the […]

Why Israeli soldiers must refuse to fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters | B’Tselem – Last Friday was a bloody day in Gaza as Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians taking part in demonstrations within the Gaza Strip. Of at least 17 Palestinians killed that day, 12 were killed at the protests. Hundreds more were injured by […]

Former Brazilian President Lula: It’s Clear Marielle Franco’s Assassination Was Premeditated | Democracy Now! – In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we spend the hour with Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is now running for president again. We begin our discussion with the assassination of 38-year-old Rio city councilmember and human rights […]

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – Wikipedia – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, OLS (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 [1] – 2 April 2018), [2] also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 until her death, and was a deputy […]

Denmark Gets First Public Statue of a Black Woman, a ‘Rebel Queen’ – Bakerrs // In Denmark, where most of the public statues represent white men, two artists on Saturday unveiled the striking statue that portrays a 19th-century rebel queen who led a fiery revolt against Danish colonial rule in the Caribbean. It’s being billed […]

Repubblica founder Eugenio Scalfari has misrepresented pontiff’s words, says Vatican Source: theguardian.com // Vatican scrambles after pope appears to deny existence of hell — Eugenio Scalfari // RORATE CÆLI: Exclusive translation: newest papal controversial declarations to Scalfari – Did Pope defend the annihilation of souls? // La Repubblica March 15, 2015 // RORATE CÆLI: Exclusive […]

Pope Francis Refuses To Apologize To Indigenous Canadians For Residential Schools – The First Nations Canada: For over 100 years, starting in the late 1800’s, Canada’s government and the Catholic Church ran the residential schools program for indigenous youth in Canada. Essentially taking children from their parents at a young age in an effort to […]