by W. T. Whitney Jr. source url: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/whitney080513.html Bombs set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 killed three and wounded over 200 people. The metropolitan area became a virtual war zone. Officials at every level let loose with doomsday-style retaliatory proclamations. For some, however, the clamor served to […]
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by Jean Shaoul A senior British politician has revealed Britain’s involvement in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first prime minister. The leader of the Congolese independence struggle from Belgium was brutally murdered just seven months after taking office on the direct orders of the U.S. and Belgium. Britain, whose involvement had long […]
Where were you when you learned about the May 13th, 1985 Bombing of MOVE? You remember. You remember because the tragedy that day touched everyone it reached. What did it teach you? Tell someone. Write a poem, short story, rhyme, or snapshot. What did it mean? What did you learn? What are you going to […]
source url: Blood Along the Border: Political Activism and Violence in Juarez, Mexico Thursday, 18 April 2013 12:02 Dawn Paley Saul Reyes Salazar is a man who understands loss. In January 2010, his sister Josefina was shot in the head, following a botched kidnapping in their hometown of Guadalupe los Bravos, across the […]
Texas Executes Another Black Man by AFRO Staff Click on the photo to view additional Photos. The gurney sits empty in the death chamber Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in Huntsville, Texas. After a nearly 9-month hiatus a former part-time car-wash worker Derrick Sonnier, 40, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for killing a suburban […]
Source URL: http://www.alternet.org/investigations/was-rfks-confessed-assassin-subject-govt-program-create-hypnotized-killers?akid=10310.264976.XS2Pbs&rd=1&src=newsletter822302&t=17&paging=off By Russ Baker Sirhan Sirhan‘s new attorney’s central claim is that Sirhan was genuinely unaware of his actions on June 5, 1968. April 9, 2013 | This article first appeared on Who, What, Why. Recent legal filings on behalf of Sirhan Sirhan, jailed 45 years ago in the death of Robert F. […]
AlterNet / By Ira Chernus April 4, 2013 | Should the United States government be allowed to assassinate its own citizens? That question was in the air briefly not long ago. April 4 is an excellent day to revive it: On April 4, 1968, the government was part of a successful conspiracy to assassinate […]
Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), there was a concerted effort to subvert the will of the people to avoid the rise “of a black Messiah” that would mobilize the African-American community into a meaningful political force. This documentary establishes historical perspective on the measures initiated by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI […]
Source : http://blackhistoryfactorfiction.com/?p=6278 Thirty years before Hitler came to power in Germany, and about forty years before Raphael Lemkin authored the word genocide, there had already been one at the hands of Germany. This genocide happened outside of Europe though. This genocide took place in AFRIKA! Like with all things related to Afrika, this is […]
by W.M.E. we Langa Martin Luther King ponders his response to opponents of open housing who were picketing him in Grosse Point Farms, Mich., as he spoke to 2,700 in a high school gym on March 14, 1968, only three weeks before his assassination in Memphis. The threats against King were so serious that the […]
