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02/01/2006:

"Black History Has Not Motivated Whites to Remedy Racial Injustice"

Black History Has Not Motivated Whites to Remedy Racial Injustice
As we begin Black History month, it is increasingly clear that teaching about America’s longstanding mistreatment of blacks has not fostered majority political support for racial justice. The long history of America’s denial of voting rights to blacks did not stop the overt suppression of black voting rights in Florida in 2000, or in Ohio in 2004. Nor did our nation’s 200 year denial of any legal rights to Southern Blacks improve the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. The sad truth is that most white voters are unswayed by the facts of Black History, and since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act have repeatedly elected governments firmly controlled by those whose political predecessors unleashed attack dogs against Martin Luther King, Jr. While Black History has inspired many people of all races to battle racial injustice, America's white majority remains unswayed.

Coretta Scott King dead at 78
Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband’s dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence, died Tuesday. She was 78.

Plans to offer Kenya 'Dog Food' as aid
A dog food supplement will be provided as food aid for Kenya by the founder of a New Zealand dog food company. The manufacturer plans to donate powdered dog food packets for the starving children of Kenya to assist with their survival.

The Truth about Institutional Racism in the British Media
As quick as the furore over Sir Ian Blair’s comments about institutional racism in the media erupted, so the very institution at the heart of the argument – the mainstream media is already burying the story. But this accusation is not new and Sir Ian Blair was not the first person to raise this issue.


Abramoff Tied to South African Apartheid-Era Assassin
The scandal is also making news in South Africa. That's because in the mid-1980s Jack Abramoff helped launch the pro-aparthed International Freedom Foundation. According to the South African Mail & Guardian, the IFF was promoted as an independent think tank but it was actually part of an elaborate South African military intelligence operation set up to combat sanctions and undermine Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

Experts Worried As 16 Local Languages Are About to Vanish
On September 10, 1953, a Mr Ojambo arap Kishero wrote to the Bungoma district officer asking for a licence to hold a meeting that would help trace Bong'om people's history. For, he claimed, they were "losing their language".

Skeletons discovered: first African slaves in New World
Archaeologists have found what they think are the oldest remains of slaves brought from Africa to the New World. The remains, in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century, not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas.

Bush's State of the Union - Endless War and Domestic Repression

Bush vows aggressive foreign role

State of the Union speech: Bush declares war on the world

Harry Belafonte on Bush, Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and Having His Conversations with Martin Luther King Wiretapped by the FBI

There is No Stop Button in the Race for Human Re-Engineering

Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases

Pentagon Can Now Fund Foreign Militaries

Chile gets its first U.S. F-16 warplanes

Yes to Colombia, Chile & Pakistan; No to Venezuela

Venezuela may buy Russian or Chinese warplanes

Microsoft Joins 'Blackworm' D-Day Warning Chorus

Starring in A Farce, A Monster Becomes A Hero

We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid

Haiti: the forgotten occupation