[Another, more critical take on Clark’s life. An important figure in post-WWII politics, especially the US invasion and occupation of Vietnam. WB]
Ramsey Clark, Former Attorney General of the United States and Principled Critic of the U.S. Warfare State, Dies at 93
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Irish FOI Data-Release Proves Hospitals Were Never Under Strain In 2020
BY MICHAEL J SULLIVAN | FREEPRESS | MARCH 9, 2021 Freepress.ie can exclusively reveal that Irish hospitals were never under strain throughout 2020, based on newly released official health system hospital data arising from our freedom of information request. If you’re in a hurry, scroll to the section on St. James’s hospital.
Irish FOI Data-Release Proves Hospitals Were Never Under Strain In 2020
Israeli ambassador seeks to exploit Black struggle in US
President Trump’s Post-Election Conduct and ‘Threats’ Violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, Civil Rights Groups Allege
“Under the specter of preventing ‘fraud,’ defendants engaged in a conspiracy, executed through a coordinated effort, to disenfranchise voters by disrupting vote counting efforts, lodging groundless challenges during recounts, and attempting to block certification of election results through intimidation and coercion of election officials and volunteers,” their new complaint filed late on Monday states. “These systematic efforts – violations of the [Voting Rights Act] and the Ku Klux Klan Act – have largely been directed at major metropolitan areas with large Black voter populations. These include Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and others. Defendants have not directed these efforts at predominantly white areas.”
The Right Should Tell the Proud Boys to Get Lost
America’s largest (and arguably most problematic) voting machine vendor is ES&S, not Dominion Voting
How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb
How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb
Webb’s troubles began in August 1996, when his employer, the San Jose Mercury News, published a groundbreaking, three-part investigation he had worked on for more than a year. Carrying the full title “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion,” Webb’s series reported that in addition to waging a proxy war for the U.S. government against Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, elements of the CIA-backed Contra rebels were also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign. The secret flow of drugs and money, Webb reported, had a direct link to the subsequent explosion of crack cocaine abuse that had devastated California’s most vulnerable African American neighborhoods.
Related:
The Dark Alliance: Gary Webb’s Incendiary 1996 SJ Mercury News Exposé
[2015] A Day When Journalism Died
Internet Archive (PDF): The Dark Alliance
The danger of a Trump coup is rapidly escalating
The danger of a Trump coup is rapidly escalating
It’s becoming increasingly apparent though, that very serious people are directing the strategy off-screen. Steve Bannon, the confirmed white supremacist and architect of Trump’s nationalistic and xenophobic “America First” policies, appears to be the one laying out the president’s battle plan. And behind Bannon has long stood the big money of those capitalist interests who’ve never had much concern for democracy, especially if it gets in the way of profits.
Within hours of the election ending, on Nov. 5 Bannon declared the outlines of the approach we now see coming to fruition: “Fortune favors boldness… Kick it to the state legislatures, kick it to the House of Representatives…. We win there.”
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