Category Conspiracy
PressTV-For 35 yrs in prison without conviction
PressTV-For 35 yrs in prison without conviction – A mentally ill African American man has spent more than three decades in the US state of Texas without conviction, a defense attorney says. Jerry Hartfield, 59, has been jailed for over 35 years despite his original murder conviction being thrown out from being found guilty, defense […]
We are Women Against Rape but we do not want Julian Assange extradited | Katrin Axelsson and Lisa Longstaff | Comment is free | The Guardian
In over 30 years working with thousands of rape victims who are seeking asylum from rape and other forms of torture, we have met nothing but obstruction from British governments. Time after time, they have accused women of lying and deported them with no concern for their safety. We are currently working with three women […]
Jeffrey Sterling vs. the CIA: An Untold Story of Race and Retribution | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
As early as 2000, Sterling was reaching out toward Capitol Hill about his concerns. He received a positive response from House member Julian Dixon (D-Calif.), a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, who expressed interest in pursuing the matter of racial discrimination at the CIA and contacted the agency about his case, Sterling says. […]
Exclusive Video: Violence Inside Rikers – The New Yorker
Last year, the office of Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, released a report denouncing the horrific conditions in the adolescent jail on Rikers, describing it as a place that “seems more inspired by Lord of the Flies than any legitimate philosophy of humane detention.” Browder experienced this firsthand during the many months […]
“They Couldn’t Take My Soul”: Anthony Ray Hinton on His Exoneration After 30 Years on Death Row | Democracy Now!
Days after being exonerated and freed from an Alabama prison, Anthony Ray Hinton recounts how he got through nearly 30 years on death row as an innocent man. Hinton was convicted of murdering two fast-food managers in separate robberies in 1985, based on scant evidence that later turned out to be false. Hinton is said […]
Lawyers for CIA Leaker Cite Selective Prosecution After Petraeus Plea Deal – The Intercept
In January, Sterling was convicted by a jury on nine criminal counts, including violations of the Espionage Act, for leaking classified information to Times reporter James Risen about a CIA effort to undermine Iran’s nuclear program. Sterling is to be sentenced in April and faces a maximum sentence of decades in jail. In a statement […]
Austin Police Investigate ‘Exclusively For White People’ Stickers On Businesses – keyetv.com Austin News, Weather, Traffic KEYE-TV Austin – Top Stories
Austin Police are now assisting in the investigation. Police sources say that if someone is caught posting these stickers, they will face graffiti charges.Austin Police are expected to give a statement on the investigation this afternoon.The city released this statement, ” Between midnight and 7 a.m. today, a number of local businesses in East Austin […]
Killer of Malcolm X’s grandson sentenced but questions still remain about his death
According to media accounts, the 28-year-old was a victim of beating in a Mexico City bar on May 9, 2013. “The circumstances surrounding his death are still not clear, and it is now February 2015,” said Sabrina Green, a human rights activist with the Baltimore-based Free the Move 9 Mumia. New York magazine reported at […]
18 things you should know about mass incarceration | Southern Poverty Law Center
It’s a system that has forged the world’s largest prison system, one that author and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander has labeled the “new Jim Crow.” And it’s a system that has resulted in a dramatic rise in the U.S. incarceration rate – the number of prisoners per-capita – that the National Academy of Sciences […]
August 27, 2014 Press Release, “Statement of William W. Thompson, Ph.D., Regarding the 2004 Article Examining the Possibility of a Relationship Between MMR Vaccine and Autism”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-AUGUST 27,2014 STATEMENT OF WILLIAM W. THOMPSON, Ph.D., REGARDING THE 2004 ARTICLE EXAMINING THE POSSIBILITY OF A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM My name is William Thompson. I am a Senior Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where I have worked since 1998. I regret that […]
Hip-Hop Fridays: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Crafting Legislation To Open Government Files On Tupac Shakur
Nearly 3 years prior to that day, on September 20, 2002, I wrote a BlackElectorate.com editorial, “RapCOINTELPRO X – Getting To The Top And Bottom Of The Murders Of Biggie And Tupac”. The editorial was inspired in part by the September 6, 2002 Los Angeles Times article which claimed that the Notorious B.I.G. masterminded a […]
Open letter to the UN: Police brutality in the Black community requires action | Green Left Weekly
The police brutality levied upon African/black people is systematic and is taking lives at an almost once a day rate. We have even seen young children being murdered, like Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was murdered by a Detroit police officer in 2010. Her murderer, Joseph Weekly, is still a free man.African/black people within the United States […]
Ron Howell, The Rev. and the Fugitive Sharpton tried to set up Chesimard, activists say
The black activists said they feared Sharpton was trying to deliver Chesimard into the arms of federal agents, but said they had no proof. One law-enforcement source, who declined to be identified but has detailed knowledge of Sharpton’s activities as an FBI informant, said this week that Sharpton was working as an informant at the […]
The Origin of AIDS According to Former CIA Officer John Stockwell | Top Secret Writers – Conspiracy Theory, Strange Stories and Truth
However, there are many people throughout the world who did not, and still do not, buy into this official story. One of those people is former CIA officer, John Stockwell.Stockwell has been among one of the highest ranking CIA officials to ever leave the agency. He stated that he left over differences he had with […]
Pablo Neruda: A Poet Possibly Poisoned By A CIA Agent Working For Pinochet
It is certain that Allende died during the coup staged by Pinochet’s forces. What remains unclear, however, is how. With the presidential palace La Moneda surrounded by Pinochet’s forces, Allende either committed suicide — as the official account of his death states — or was assassinated on Sept. 11, 1973.As with Allende, there is a […]
Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household – The Daily Beast
Ferguson PDMichael DalyMichael DalyU.S. News08.22.14Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per HouseholdIn the chamber where Officer Darren Wilson received a commendation six months before killing Michael Brown, a minor court generates major money from the city’s poor and working people.The Ferguson Police have now released a video that shows police Officer Darren […]
Message from Leonard Peltier 08/28/2014… – Friends of Peltier
The Constitution of the United states was a copy of Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Law. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin all wrote down as to where they got the ideas and inspiration from. The main premise of the constitution being, you have the freedom to do anything you want as long as you don’t […]
GoFundMe: Stop profiting from racially-motivated donors, celebrating Michael Brown’s death | ColorOfChange.org
The online fundraising platform GoFundMe is profiting off racially-motivated donors, some of whom are celebrating the police killing of Michael Brown. Join our campaign demanding that GoFundMe return these profits and take down Darren Wilson fundraising pages. In the past week, a fundraising effort has been started to support Darren Wilson, the officer responsible for […]
#FERGUSON “HANDS UP, NO HAND GUN” JOHN BOYE FT. TALIB KWELI
Michael Brown was wrongfully targeted for execution in order to antagonize the black population in Ferguson to riot and create “Unrest” in order to further racial divide. Why did the Ferguson “incident” happen just days away from the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots?; Black Boule Cape Crusaders & FBI’s War on Black America “The […]
Fred Hampton 1948-1969
Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed while sleeping in his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago […]
Ku Klux Klan Faction Predicts American Government Is On The Brink Of Collapse As They Train For ‘Race War’ PICTURES
Behind closed gates, the participants frequently spat the “n-word” and openly supported the killing of homosexuals they branded “fags”.Screams of “white power” angrily erupted from a wooden hut inside a forest clearing early on a Saturday morning – where the rally was hosted.Armed men and women wearing trademark robes and pointed hoods gather jeering around […]
Florida Ku Klux Klan Leader Reveals Police And Judges Are In Support Of Their Cause – YouTube
via ▶ Florida Ku Klux Klan Leader Reveals Police And Judges Are In Support Of Their Cause – YouTube. — KKK Christians Seek to Rebrand, and Say that they are Misunderstood | Black Blue Dog – by Nigel Boys The Ku Klux Klan has attempted to change its image in Iowa and has contacted residents […]
Unarmed Black Men Killed by Law Enforcement – The Root
Michael Brown, 18, was on his way to his grandmother’s house in Ferguson, Mo.–a surburb just outside of St. Louis — on August 9, 2014 when a series of events would claim his life.According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, some reports indicate that Brown and the police officer who’s accused of shooting him engaged in […]
Timeline Photos – Zinn Education Project | Facebook
Zinn Education ProjectOn July 29, 1910, citizens in the small, predominately African American town of Slocum, Texas were massacred. This was one of many towns, such as Rosewood and Tulsa, where a successful, self-sufficient African American community was the subject of a terrorist attack designed to maintain economic white supremacy. In each town, the incident […]
Nine Lives of a Black Panther: A Story of Survival | Afro
The Declaration of Independence states that “All men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” namely, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The sacrosanct document further stipulates that when people are denied those rights by the government, “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such […]
Ronald Jackson’s GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES NOW: Whites Are Superior: Highly Placed Media Racists at the New York Times, New Republic and Elsewhere
In 1994, when Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published The Bell Curve, a book espousing the so-called “academic racist” theories that black people are inherently less intelligent and more prone to crime than whites or Asians, the New York Times Book Review 10/16/94 published a fawning, credulous review by Times science reporter Malcolm Browne.The Times […]
History of Lynching in the United States, Jana Evans Braziel
“Mob violence against African-Americans served four functions within southern society during the lynching era: to eradicate specific persons accused of crimes against the white community; as a mechanism of state-sanctioned terrorism designed to maintain a degree of leverage over the African-American population; to eliminate or neutralize competitors for social, economic, or political rewards; and as […]
Malcolm’s Assasination Is Not Resolved
We also know that the NOI supported the families of those convicted for the murder during the early years of their incarceration. According to a public statement by Malcolm’s widow, folks in the NOI were openly boastful about the murder. “It was a badge of honor,” Sister Betty Shabazz says. This allegation is supported by […]
A Conversation Between Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes – Money 2007 — New York Magazine
And so, three decades after their heyday, these former street titans are still generating commerce. This makes sense, as both insist they were businessmen, first and foremost. The trick for an ambitious black man in the seventies dope game was to minimize the sway of the Italian distributors who had controlled the Harlem scene for […]
China Denounces America’s Treatment of African Americans, Minorities | Ipetisut
According to a report of the Working Group of Experts on people of African descent to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in August 2010, unemployment was a very serious issue for the Afro-descendant community in the United States, with levels of unemployment being, proportionately, four times higher among this population than in […]
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