racism

TeleSur | – – Some Southern cities are rethinking the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property. Not Alabama. Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that prohibits the removal of Confederate monuments and other long-standing historical markers. The bill, passed in both the House and Senate, prohibits “the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or […]

Donald Trump

Bannon booted from US National Security Council, takes swipe at Susan Rice

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TeleSur | – – “General McMaster has returned the NSC to its proper function,” Bannon said in a statement. U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has been removed from the National Security Council’s principals committee, replaced by U.S. intelligence officials, according to a new presidential memorandum issued Wednesday. The decision was made by […]

Archaeology

No, supremacists, the Vikings wouldn’t have put up with “Teuton” Donald Trump

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By Keith Ruiter | (The Conversation) | – – It has been suggested that Donald Trump “may get his assertive rather than passive manner from his alleged Viking ancestors”. Or so says Russian genealogist Aleksey Nilogov, who has been finding some traction for his beliefs on nationalistic eastern European news sites such as the Estonian […]

Dissent

What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about Resistance in Age of Trump

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By Jon Else | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, welcomed John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, and other march organizers […]

Cuba

What’s Cuba Really Like?

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H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – What is Cuba like? Since visiting there recently, I have been asked this question hundreds of times and learned that every third person harbors a desire to visit there. Yes, there are iconic ‘57 Chevrolets, some in mint condition for taking tourists around Havana. But most […]

Africa

Africa Trade Summit in US Had Zero Africans After Visas Denied

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TeleSur | – – “This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation,” organizer Mary Flowers told the media. An African trade summit organized by the University of Southern California ended up with zero Africans as they were all denied visas to enter the United States just days before the summit despite applying months ahead of […]

Donald Trump

Is White Supremacy Making A Comeback?

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AJ+ | (Video Clip) “Former FBI undercover agent Mike German discusses the resurgence of the white supremacist movement now under President Trump.” AJ+: “Is White Supremacy Making A Comeback?”

Far Right

What everyone Needs to know about alt-NeoNazi President Steve Bannon

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AJ+ | (Video Clip) | – – “President Trump is calling for an investigation into voter fraud, and media sources have discovered that his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was actually registered in two different states. Here are some other things you should know about Bannon.” AJ+: “Steve Bannon: What You Need To Know” —- Related […]

African-Americans

Dear Rep. King: Our Civilization isn’t White and American Babies aren’t Other

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Rep Steve King of Iowa (whose constituents should be ashamed to show their faces in public went full-on racist again, supporting hate-speech master Geert Wilders in his quixotic quest to reverse globalization and ban Muslims from Europe. King lauded Wilders’ supposed wisdom and added “we can’t […]