Category International
An armed #FarRight militia sets up in #Quebec (09/11/17)
Une milice armée d’extrême droite s’implante au Québec | ICI.Radio-Canada.ca – La milice armée d’extrême droite du III % (milice du trois pour cent) s’implante actuellement dans plusieurs régions du Québec. Pour devenir membres du mouvement des « threepers », les aspirants doivent notamment détenir un permis de possession d’arme à feu. Un reportage […]
In Historic Report, U.N. Agency Says Israel Is Imposing an “Apartheid Regime” on Palestinian People | Democracy Now!
In Historic Report, U.N. Agency Says Israel Is Imposing an “Apartheid Regime” on Palestinian People | Democracy Now!: For the first time, a United Nations agency has directly accused Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” on the Palestinian people. The report also urges governments to “support boycott, divestment and sanctions [BDS] activities and respond positively […]
Senator Lynn Beyak stands by residential school remarks
Senator Lynn Beyak stands by residential school remarks, cites ‘fake news’ – Politics – CBC News – She also said they support her calls for an audit of all money “flowing in and out of reservations, and talks with grassroots indigenous people,” she said. “Which Indigenous people are your friends?” Independent Senator Patrick Brazeau said […]
The Hungary PM made a ‘rivers of blood’ speech … and no one cares | Cas Mudde | Opinion | The Guardian
The Hungary PM made a ‘rivers of blood’ speech … and no one cares | Cas Mudde | Opinion | The Guardian – My main point is not that the rise of the radical right is unimportant, but that these groups are often not that relevant. We devote far too much attention to relatively irrelevant […]
Carlos the Jackal on trial for 1974 Paris attack
Carlos the Jackal on trial for 1974 Paris attack – EUROPE – [hurriyetdailynews] – Carlos, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, was dubbed “Carlos the Jackal” by the press when he was giving international security services the slip while on the run. The nickname came from a fictional terrorist in the 1971 […]
#WhiteLivesMatter Domestic Terrorist Planned to Kill Jews ‘In the Spirit of Dylann Roof’
FBI: White Supremacist Says He Planned to Kill Jews ‘In the Spirit of Dylann Roof’ – The Daily Beast – McDowell had already been convicted on multiple felony charges of animal abuse, violent burglary, larceny, drugs, and assault. During his time in prison for those offenses, police said he developed connections to white supremacists. According […]
Philadelphia man acquitted of ’91 murder in less than an hour after retrial Innocence Project
Philadelphia man acquitted of ’91 murder in less than an hour after retrial Innocence Project – “We are extremely relieved that this very long nightmare is finally over for Mr. Wright and his family. DNA testing proved not only that Mr. Wright is absolutely innocent but also that law enforcement fabricated evidence against him,” said […]
proudblacksista: Return our People | Ramblings…
Return our People | Ramblings… – They, being the museums, tell us that they are not the owners of these remains, but the keepers of them until they can be handed back to the families and communities to have a burial or to be housed in somewhere safe. But these people and the hair samples […]
Common Space – #ShekuBayoh: Family react with anger to Kenny MacAskill “hunting Police Scotland” remarks
Common Space – Sheku Bayoh: Family react with anger to Kenny MacAskill “hunting Police Scotland” remarks – Writing for a police magazine, Police Professional, MacAskill said: “An assumption of institutional racism and homicide are alluded to without awaiting the outcome of complex and highly thorough investigations into a specific incident. “The fact that the police […]
To White Folks That Have Never Seen Super Light Skinned Negros Before
So, this is me. No makeup, no sorcery. This picture is a few years old. Nothing has changed. I suppose what they really mean when they think/say that I’m not black is that I don’t inspire their racist fears about black people. Or they could mean that black people don’t have certain looks. Not REAL […]
Whites see blacks as superhuman: Strength, speed, pain tolerance, and the magical negro.
Adam Waytz of Northwestern University and Kelly Marie Hoffman and Sophie Trawalter of the University of Virginia report the results of several studies on this subject in an upcoming issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science. In one experiment, white Internet users were shown a white face and a black face and asked to decide: […]
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 […]
Ex-Black Panther Leader Elaine Brown Slams Stanley Nelson’s ‘Condemnable’ Documentary – The Daily Beast
As an aside, to answer any charge that my condemnation of this film arises from the fact that Nelson tossed most of his interview with me onto the cutting room floor, I note that my autobiography, A Taste of Power, my own Black Panther story, has never gone out of print and was just picked […]
Zanj Rebellion – Wikipedia
Zanj Rebellion – The Zanj Rebellion or the Negro Rebellion was the culmination of series of small revolts. It took place near the city of Basra, located in present-day southern Iraq, over a period of fifteen years (AD 869–883). The insurrection is believed to have involved enslaved Bantus (Zanj) that had originally been captured from […]
John Molyneux: Picasso and African Art
Underpinning much racist ideology is the notion that the development of civilization was basically a European or western phenomenon. In reality, civilization – living in cities, literacy, law etc. – developed first in three main areas, none of them in Europe: the middle eastern fertile crescent (Iraq to Egypt), northwestern India and southeast China. Moreover […]
European Racism : Nigger, are you crazy? Hoe vernietig je de zwarte identiteit? – NRC Handelsblad
Nigger, are you crazy? Hoe vernietig je de zwarte identiteit? – NRC Handelsblad van vrijdag 31 juli 2015 — Amerika, vooral blank Amerika, leefde een paar jaar in een droom. Een nieuwe tijd was aangebroken, waarin de oude problematische rassenverhoudingen er niet meer toe deden. Het aantreden van Barack Obama, de eerste zwarte president, onderstreepte […]
Slaughter Of Young Black Trans Women Intensifies, With 5 Murders Reported In 1 Week – Towleroad
The other day we told you how Shade Schuler, whose badly decomposed body was found in a vacant field in Dallas, was the 13th transgender person known to have been murdered this year, eclipsing the total from all of 2014.Since then, three additional murders of transgender women have been reported, bringing the 2015 total to […]
Jindal Wants To Block Removal Of Confederate Monuments In New Orleans
“Gov. Jindal opposes the tearing down of these historical statues and has instructed his staff to look into the Heritage Act to determine the legal authority he has as governor to stop it,” Jindal spokesman Doug Cain said in an email to the New Orleans Advocate.The statues in question include Confederate Commander Robert E. Lee […]
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 […]
DEADLY DIPLOMACY: THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES OCCUPATION OF HAITI | Black Star News
The U.S. rationale for occupying Haiti in 1915 was to supposedly restore political order and maintain economic stability in Haiti. Instead, given its chicanery, the U.S. occupation of Haiti has led to unintended and negative consequences for Haiti. These consequences include, but are not limited to the U.S. gaining complete control of Haitian finances; the […]
What Should be Done About Rikers Island’s Dark Fugitive Slave History? – CityLab
[Uploaded on Aug 4, 2011 –> An artificial island, a solid waste landfill, Rikers is the world’s largest penal colony. Incarcerating over 130,000 NY’ers a year, Rikers is a key component to the NYPD’s community policing strategy. Arrest a lot of young people, build long rap sheets, and keep people moving through the system with […]
Inside the Twisted Mind of John Russell Houser – The Daily Beast
Inside the Twisted Mind of John Russell Houser – The Daily Beast. Houser’s posts on the site were made in early 2014. In one about Golden Dawn, he called the group “a legitimate effort to solve problems.” “The leaders of the group are in fact leaders,” he wrote. “Intelligent, well spoken, and exercising good faith.” […]
▶ Inside The Ku Klux Klan: KKK Explain Their Plan For Expansion – YouTube
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) – Terrorist Group History – Objectives: The KKK’s is a white supremacist group. It holds that only white, heterosexual Christians deserve civil rights. Its original mandate, to reverse the equality granted African -Americans after the Civil War has expanded as the social demographics of the United States have changed. It also […]
Ida B. Wells: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Ida B. Wells-Barnett would have turned 153 on July 16. She was a writer and editor, a suffragist and an early leader in the civil rights movement.“We salute Ida B. Wells with a Doodle that commemorates her journalistic mettle and her unequivocal commitment to the advancement of civil liberties,” Google says.Wells-Barnett is also known for […]
Black Time Travel | Civil Rights historians ignore this group because they actually defended themselves
The Deacons are a segment of the larger tradition of Black Power in the United States. This tradition began with the inception of African slavery in the U.S. and with the use of Africans as chattel slaves in the Western Hemisphere. Stokely Carmichael defines Black Power as: “The goal of black self-determination and black self-identity—Black […]
Twitter Slams New York Times for Serena Williams ‘Body Image’ Story – The Root
The article says that in spite of Williams’s success (a win Saturday would give her 21 Grand Slam singles titles and her fourth in a row) body-image issues among female tennis players persist, forcing many players to avoid bulking up.Williams “has large biceps and a mold-breaking muscular frame, which packs the power and athleticism that […]
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on […]
Was Race a Factor in Sterling Case? | Consortiumnews
Five months ago, in court, prosecutors kept claiming that Sterling’s pursuit of the racial-bias lawsuit showed a key “motive” for providing classified information to journalist James Risen. The government’s case at the highly problematic trial was built entirely on circumstantial evidence. Lacking anything more, the prosecution hammered on ostensible motives, telling the jury that Sterling’s […]
Black artist will burn, bury the Confederate flag across the South on Memorial Day | theGrio
John Sims, an artist from Sarasota, Florida, is honoring the constitutional right of self-expression by staging burnings and burials of the Rebel flag, that troublesome symbol of the Old South that many, particularly African-Americans, associate with slavery, white supremacy and state-sponsored terrorism and lynchings. “We are in America, and people have the right to fly […]
The 1974 Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mother | Dillsnap Cogitations
During arraignment on murder charges, Chenault referred to himself in an alter personality, a “Hebrew”, and gave the name of the alter to the court as “Servant JACOB”. In court, Chenault was observed to be biting and licking his lips, and clasping his hands, repetitively. When asked about the shooting, Wayne responded, “I’m a Hebrew […]
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