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Discussion of Michael Eric Dyson’s Attack on Cornel West

Quite the controversy has been stirred up in response to “The Ghost of Cornel West,” Michael Eric Dyson’s public attack on leading American activist and scholar Cornel West, in the pages of renowned...

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Exposes the Inherent Bias in “Objective” Journalism™

Reminder: If your journalism does not serve the interests of the powerful, it is not “objective”; it is “biased.” You see, the job of Objective Journalism™ is to filter and present news in a way that...

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Neo-Nazis Held Pro-Police Demonstration in Washington

White supremacist neo-Nazis held an anti-Black Lives Matter and pro-police demonstration in Olympia, Washington on the evening of 30 May. Olympia police shot two unarmed black men on 21 May. Since that...

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The Charleston Shooting Was a White Supremacist Terrorist Attack

UPDATE, 20 June: A website left behind by white supremacist terrorist Dylann Storm Roof shows that he is a full-fledged neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist. I write more about that here. ORIGINAL, 18...

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3 Americans per Day Killed by Police in Year After Shooting of Michael Brown

A year ago today, on 9 August 2014, unarmed black teen Michael Brown was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson was never indicted with a crime. In the year since Brown was shot dead, at...

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Hillary Clinton Is Incredibly Corrupt, but Her Black Lives Matter Advice Is...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is incredibly, almost cartoonishly corrupt. 18 of her top 20 (90%) donors since 1999 are corporations or provide services to corporations. Over...

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Rev. Graylan Hagler Disinvinted to Speak on Palestine, Sent Death Threats

(This article is published in Mondoweiss.) Reverend Graylan Hagler, a veteran social and economic justice activist and outspoken supporter of Palestinian human rights, was invited by the Colgate...

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Church Group Condemns Cancellation of Rev. Hagler’s ‘Ferguson to Palestine’...

(This article is published in Mondoweiss.) The Steering Committee of the United Church of Christ Palestine-Israel Network (UCCPIN) strongly condemned the cancellation of Reverend Graylan Hagler’s “From...

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#RiseUpOctober: Stop Police Terror march in NYC

Thousands of protesters from a variety of different groups, parties, and backgrounds marched in NYC on 24 October for the #RiseUpOctober: Stop Police Terror march. I took pictures: Source:...

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Five people shot at Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis: Police

(This article is published in Salon.) Five people were shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis late Monday night. The Associated Press spoke with Minneapolis police who confirmed the...

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US systemic racism, M4BL platform, Saudi Arabia, Clinton’s hawkish foreign...

On the program “By Any Means Necessary” with Eugene Puryear, I had the pleasure of discussing a recent UN expert’s report on systemic racism in the US, the Movement for Black Lives platform and its...

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