FLINT TAYLOR—Fifty-one years ago this past week, Illinois Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were slain by the Chicago police in a murderous pre-dawn raid. Over the next five decades the Hampton and Clark families, their lawyers, the Black Panther Party, movement activists, honest reporters and documentary filmmakers, and peoples’ historians have waged a continuous battle to uncover and speak the truth about Fred Hampton, the BPP, and the December 4th raid. These intergenerational and interracial efforts have led to a changing of the historical narrative from a shoot-out between the Panthers and the police, to a “shoot in” where the police fired more than 90 shots to one by the Panthers, then to a murder of Fred Hampton while he slept, drugged, in his bed, and now, to a political assassination orchestrated by the FBI under its notorious COINTEPRO program.
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The Black Misleaders give the impression of exercising black empowerment when they are in fact only promoting themselves.
10 minutes readMARGARET KIMBERLEY—The presidency is a powerful office. If he wants to, Biden can make every fatal encounter with police subject to federal instead of local prosecution. He can issue an executive order forgiving student loan debt. Biden can direct the Department of Labor to stop wage theft, including the misclassification of workers as managers which deprives them of overtime pay. The new president can do all of these things without congressional approval and that is what the CBC and NAACP ought to demand but won’t.
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White Helmets founder Le Mesurier is now a mainstream saint, but leaked docs raise questions about his widow’s role
48 minutes readKIT KLARENBERG—The linkage between JAI and the Helmets gains an acutely sinister dimension given the former’s primary base of operations was the city of Douma, the site of a highly controversial alleged chemical weapons attack 7th April 2018. The Helmets were central to Western news reporting in the initial hours and days following the contested strike, its operatives claiming two Syrian Air Force helicopters dropped barrel bombs containing the nerve agent sarin on the city. Images they provided of cylinders embedded in buildings circulated widely on social networks and media platforms the world over, along with footage of local residents being hosed down in hospitals, children foaming at the mouth, and piles of dead bodies in a housing complex.
Paris, London and Washington claimed to possess secret proof Assad’s forces had attacked the city with chemical weapons, and in response launched a series of military strikes against multiple government sites in Syria 14th April 2018. In March 2019, the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) issued a final report on the incident, which concluded there were “reasonable grounds” to believe a chemical weapons attack had occurred in Douma, and “the toxic chemical was likely molecular chlorine.”
However, a number of the organization’s previously suppressed files are now in the public domain — they make clear the report’s findings were directly contrary to the overwhelming majority of evidence collected by investigators who actually visited Douma, which pointed strongly to a staged ‘false flag’ incident.
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New Documents Show How The British Government Secretly Created ‘Regime Change’ Protests In Lebanon
22 minutes readMoA—The British government then invited certain private companies to make bids for executing these ‘Strategic Communication’ projects. The Foreign Office formally did this by issuing an ‘Expression of Interests’ which included a ‘Statement of Requirements.’ The companies were to deliver detailed offers by early May 2019 and the contract awards were to come into effect in July 2019. They would run for 21 months. Each project had a defined maximum budget. The Female Political Participation project would for example have a maximum of 1.2 million British Pounds to waste.
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US hits Search and Destroy against the New Silk Roads
18 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—The relentless paranoia about the Chinese “threat” has much to do with the exit ramp offered by Beijing to a Global South permanently indebted to IMF/World Bank exploitation. In the old order, politico-military elites were routinely bribed in exchange for unfettered corporate access to their nations’ resources, coupled with go-go privatization schemes and outright austerity (“structural adjustment”). This went on for decades until BRI became the new game in town in terms of infrastructure building – offering an alternative to the imperial footprint.
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NEERA TANDEN: Perfect Choice For The BIDEN Administration.
7 minutes readJimmy discusses why Tanden’s nomination confirms once again that neither the Democrats nor Biden have anything to offer the nation or the world, except more of the same neoliberal corruption and further expansion of the eternal warring state. A Clintonista apparatchik in the Democrat mafia, Tanden is sure to make more of her mark in US politics, to the detriment of the general public everywhere.