— Gottgläubig – Wikipedia – In Nazi Germany, Gottgläubig (literally: “Believers in God”[1][2]), was a Nazi religious movement of those who had officially left Christian churches, but kept their faith in a higher power or divine creator. Such a person was called a Gottgläubige, plural Gottgläubigen, and the state of being gottgläubig was Gottgläubigkeit. The […]

Battle of the Streets: How Anarchists and Anti-Fascists are Winning the Struggle with the Alt-Right – Agency – [anarchistagency.com] – As anti-fascist networks expanded and grew increasingly resilient, the ideologically heterogeneous networks of the far right imploded. The alt-lite turned on the alt-right, the civic nationalists turned on the ethno-nationalists, the patriot militias turned on […]

Last of Rabbit-Proof Fence sisters, whose trek home was made into famous film, dies – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) – The story brought the issue of Australia’s Stolen Generations to a national and international audience. Grandson Darryl Jones said Ms Kadibil always sought to return home to the community of Jigalong. He said after […]

Agence France-Presse // Israel accused of using ‘expanding bullets’ designed to permanently maim Palestinian protesters | South China Morning Post – Amnesty International on Friday said some of the wounds appear consistent with bullets that expand inside the body. Such ammunition is considered illegal in international warfare. “The nature of these injuries shows that Israeli […]

This video from Wales says about itself: Cardiff venue apologises after booking band accused of being Neo-Nazis 25 May 2018 They described themselves as “the soundtrack to genocide” A popular Cardiff venue has issued an apology after unwittingly booking a band accused of being Neo-Nazis. As BBC News reports, his week saw Polish band Infernal […] […]

Honduran Villagers Take Legal Action to Stop Mining Firm Digging Up Graves for Gold | Earth First! Newswire: As many as 350 bodies have reportedly been exhumed by the company’s Honduran subsidiary, Minerales de Occidente (Minosa) since the process began last fall. The issue has divided Azacualpa, a coffee-producing community perched near the edge of […]

Source // Russian journalist shot and killed in Ukrainian capital – “The first and the most obvious version is his professional activities,” Kiev Police Chief Andriy Krishchenko said in televised comments. Harlem Desir, the media freedom representative at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said he was “horrified” by Babchenko’s death. “I call […]

This 2012 Spanish rap music video is called La TuerKa Rap – Valtónyc (NO AL BORBÓ). In this song, rapper Valtónyc is not very flattering about Juan Carlos, then king, now ex-king, of Spain. The rapper mentions the king killing elephants and other, corruption etc. scandals. Scandals which led to forced resignation of Juan Carlos […] […]

Note from BW of Brazil: This very poignant piece has been touching all that read it for the past week or so. It’s a short piece penned by designer/businesswoman Ana Paula Xongani whose name, work and thoughts have appeared in a number of articles on this blog in the past few years. Her description and […] […]

Yes. That and killing Indians. Here, from the New York Times. via Carl Bogus: “Was Slavery a Factor in the Second Amendment?” — Turtle Talk

This video from Wales says about itself: Cardiff venue apologises after booking band accused of being Neo-Nazis 25 May 2018 They described themselves as “the soundtrack to genocide” A popular Cardiff venue has issued an apology after unwittingly booking a band accused of being Neo-Nazis. As BBC News reports, his week saw Polish band Infernal […] […]

NFB launches Indigenous Cinema website with more than 200 films to stream | CBC News: Films available to stream include Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell’s You Are on Indian Land, Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance and Gil Cardinal’s autobiographical Foster Child.

Black Harvard Professor, Often Cited to Discredit Black Lives Matter, Accused of Sexual Misconduct  // Fryer’s other attempts to prove white people’s hypotheses include the theory of “acting white,” expounded in another one of his discredited “studies” that employs bunk research in a desperate attempt to prove the narrative that black people ostracize their best and […]

CIA terrorist Posada Carriles dead at 90 – World Socialist Web Site – By Bill Van Auken 24 May 2018 Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA-trained killer responsible for the worst terrorist act carried out in the Americas in the twentieth century, died in a veterans’ home outside of Miami Wednesday morning. He was protected by […]

– Summary: More spoken-word and satirical observations from the @TheAngryindian on a range of issues related to modern sociopolitical and neo-cultural messiness. EXTRAS: Our usual audio concoction of politically progressive PSAs and news items; archived analysis from the late Bro. James Baldwin and an interview with Black Panther and former political prisoner Eddie Conway conducted […]

The Spark | REL355 FA07 | Johnson – With that we jump ahead to the 1960’s and the Nation of Islam’s alliances with various white supremacist groups. I have already mentioned briefly George Lincoln Rockwell’s attendance at an NOI convention in 1962, but instead of focusing on it for my analysis I would like to […]

To watch the full documentary where this clip came from go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RleIo…. Governor Wallace denies the facts from credible research at that time and says everything is just fine in Alabama. He was a candidate for president during this year. Also worth seeing – https://youtu.be/YoW1Ak00weE

– KKK Grand Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson defends his vision of a segregated America on a 1982 episode of “Crossfire.” More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/

A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Ali Winston, special to ProPublica May 22, 4:45 p.m. EDT // An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an… — ProPublica – Beck was well-positioned both to be offended by Pistolis’ alleged conduct and to report it: Beck had served in the Marines from 2002 through 2006, including a tour […]

A Georgia penitentiary in 1911. Library of Congress Henry Minter was working as a farm laborer in Georgia in the 1870s when he met Mary Dotson, a young black servant girl. The couple never married – which would have been illegal at the time – but they stayed together until Henry’s death. Mary, who was […]

Funzing Talks | Black Tudors: Three Untold Stories – Funzing – Historian Dr. Miranda Kaufmann tells the intriguing tales of three Africans living in Tudor England – a diver employed by Henry VIII to recover guns from the wreck of the Mary Rose, a Moroccan woman baptized in Elizabethan London and a porter who whipped […]

Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European // livescience.com – Little is known about the history of Ashkenazi Jews before they were expelled from the Mediterranean and settled in what is now Poland around the 12th century. On average, all Ashkenazi Jews are genetically as closely related to each other as fourth or fifth cousins, said […]

Guardians of the Amazon from Survival International on Vimeo. On International Biodiversity Day, GJEP recognizes the fundamental role played by Indigenous Peoples in protecting the most biodiverse lands remaining on the planet. In this piece, Survival International… Read More The post ‘Guardians of the Amazon’ Seize Illegal Loggers to Protect Uncontacted Tribe appeared first… via ‘Guardians […]

– In the only first-hand account of the infamous 28 January 1961 meeting which took place between Malcolm X and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), former Nation of Islam (NOI) minister, Jeremiah Shabazz (in whose home the meeting took place), provides a riveting account of everything that transpired during the meeting. While the stated purpose […]

Mass mobilisation is far from the only trick in the anti-fascist book. This isn’t an argument against squaddism, local electoral politics, media exposés or anything else in the anti-fascist toolbox. However, it is an important tactic, and it’s important to get it right. Mass demonstrations, whether marches or statics, have historically been important to fascist […] […]

Guardians of the Amazon from Survival International on Vimeo. On International Biodiversity Day, GJEP recognizes the fundamental role played by Indigenous Peoples in protecting the most biodiverse lands remaining on the planet. In this piece, Survival International… Read More The post ‘Guardians of the Amazon’ Seize Illegal Loggers to Protect Uncontacted Tribe appeared first… via ‘Guardians […]

Myanmar: New evidence reveals Rohingya armed group massacred scores in Rakhine State | Amnesty International: A Rohingya armed group brandishing guns and swords is responsible for at least one, and potentially a second, massacre of up to 99 Hindu women, men, and children as well as additional unlawful killings and abductions of Hindu villagers in […]

Royal Wedding Celebrates Black Culture, But U.K. Gov’t Has Been Targeting Black Immigrants for Years | Democracy Now! – While the royal wedding has been heralded for celebrating black culture, the British government is facing ongoing scrutiny for hostile immigration policies that have targeted black immigrants. Last month, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigned amid […]

Aboriginal settlement in Australia was planned migration, study says – [smh.com.au] – “There’s always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident,” study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm said. “What […]

Rethinking the Black Power Movement – [exhibitions.nypl.org] – Black Power radicals like Baraka supported not only Castro’s Cuban Revolution but also the pan-African socialist experiments in Ghana designed by Kwame Nkrumah; and his generation identified with such writers as Aimé Césaire in Martinique and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o in Kenya. They sought the truth of black […]