Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
The Anxieties of White Christian Racists in America
New York Times | By Ross Douthat | 18 July 2010 The Roots of White Anxiety In March of 2000, Pat Buchanan came to speak at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Harvard being Harvard, the audience hissed and sneered and made wisecracks. Buchanan being Buchanan, he gave as good as he got. While the assembled Ivy Leaguers accused him [...]
Anti-War Conference in Albany, NY (23-25 July 2010)
Times Union | By Dennis Yusko | 18 July 2010 From fighting a war to fighting war Veterans more vocal in anti-war movement "Fear turns into hatred and overcomes everything you are," McCord said from his Wichita home. "You turn into a monster over there. I feel it is my duty to speak out on the wars and what I witnessed." ALBANY -- Ethan [...]
U.S. Racism and the Immigration Debate
Global Times | By Rong Xiaoqing | 15 July 2010 Reality of racism underlies immigration debate If immigrants in the US had a universal face, it would be oval with yellow-brown skin and every attribute in perfect harmony: eyes, not too large, not too small, nose, not too squat, not too pointed. This at least is the picture generated by New [...]
Ho-Hum! More Racism in America
Washington Post | By Greg Sargent | 14 July 2010 Latest right wing attack: Obama only cares about black victims of terrorism This has to be the dumbest attack yet: Some on the right are on a tear because President Obama allegedly said Al Qaeda kills Africans because the organization is "racist." The hint here is that Obama cares more about [...]
MI5/6 Complicit in Abduction, Torture of Non-White U.K. Citizens
Guardian | By Ian Cobain and Owen Bowcott | 14 July 2010 Covert words that paint a vivid picture of complicity in torture Foreign Office and No 10 interventions revealed Emails and memos began months after September 11 Early January 2002. The Taliban regime in Kabul had been toppled, Nato forces were spreading out across Afghanistan, [...]
Tea Party Racist Calls NAACP Racist
Huffington Post | By Mark Williams | 14 July 2010 Mark Williams, Tea Party Express Spokesman: NAACP Is Racist (VIDEO) (TRANSCRIPT) Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams fired an unexpected response to a challenge from CNN contributor Roland Martin. Asked to tell racists "you're not welcome" in the tea party, Williams replied, "Racists [...]
Afghanistan’s Srebrinica: Massacre, and Mass Graves in Dasht-e-Leili
Physicians for Human Rights War Crimes Video Afghanistan's Srebrenica: Under the leadership of CIA agent, notorious Afghan warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the U.S. in November 2001, buried in mass graves in the [...]
Bosnians mark Srebrenica genocide
Islâmi Davet - Islamic Invitation | 11 July 2010 Fifteen years after Serbs slaughtered almost 8,000 Muslims in what is believed to be one of the worst massacres in Europe, Bosnians hold a special ceremony to remember the victims. Bosnians gathered at Potocari memorial in Srebrenica on Sunday to honor the victims of the Srebrenica [...]
Likudniks in U.S. Government; and U.S. War Crimes Exposed
Antiwar | By Scott Horton | 4 July 2010 Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses why Bush and Cheney must have known most Guantanamo prisoners were innocent, the US military’s inability to do battlefield vetting of Afghan war prisoners, [...]
Does Israel Make Us Safer?
The Daily Beast | By Thaddeus Russell | 4 July 2010 Israel just announced it has loosened Gaza blockade rules to allow in consumer goods and Turkey is demanding an apology for the flotilla raid. As Obama and Netanyahu await tomorrow's meeting, historian Thaddeus Russell argues that it's time to ask if the country makes Americans safer—even [...]
