Trump's Africa
Roz Chast | thenation.com | 2018-09-25
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America Is Quietly Expanding Its War in Tunisia
Héni Nsaibia | globalresearch.ca | 2018-09-25
Last month, a U.S. Africa Command spokesperson confirmed in a Task & Purpose report that Marine Corps Raiders were involved in a fierce battle in 2017 in an unnamed North African country, where they fought beside partner forces against militants … | The post America Is Quietly Expanding Its War in Tunis…
globalresearch.ca/america-is-quietly-expanding-its-war-in-tunisia/5655143

Here Are 5 of Clarence Thomas' Worst Decisions — And Proof Judge Brett Kavanaugh Is Cut from the Same Cloth
Alex Henderson, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-09-25
Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh don't just share the same rocky road to Supreme Court confirmation. | When Justice Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall on the U. S. Supreme Court in 1991, it was obvious that philosophically, the two of them were diametrically opposed. Marshall, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1967, was the High Court's first African-American justice–and he was a liberal. But Tho. . .
alternet.org/here-are-5-clarence-thomas-worst-decisions-and-proof-judge-brett-kavanaugh-cut-same-cloth

Dr. Barbara Ransby: What the Defamation of Anita Hill Can Teach Us About the Kavanaugh Hearings
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-24
News that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford will testify Thursday against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has prompted many to warn senators not to repeat the mistakes of the Anita Hill hearings of 1991, when Hill was questioned by an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee over her allegations that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her in the workplace. In the weeks after Hill testified, nearly 1,600 black feminists organized as "African American Women in Defense of Ourselves" and signed a manifesto published in an advertisement in The New York Times. We speak with histo…
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/24/dr_barbara_ransby_what_the_defamation

'Racially profiled & humiliated': Black candidate busted for dealing politics seeks apology
RT | rt.com | 2018-09-22
An African-American nominee for the Wisconsin State Assembly told RT that she felt hurt and humiliated after being racially profiled and reported to cops as she was canvassing her electorate in a predominantly white neighborhood.
rt.com/usa/439143-humiliated-degraded-wisconsin-candidate/

On Climate, the Centrists are the Deplorables
James Munson | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-21
For most countries, to be poor now is to have been rich before it mattered, like Bolivia or the Congo, or rich when it mattered, like Venezuela and Iraq. Literally torn apart for their timber, ore, labor, or spot on the map by resource-poor or depleted, or simply-gluttonous, rich ones. Terrain, climate, or sensitive agriculture…
counterpunch.org/2018/09/21/on-climate-the-centrists-are-the-deplorables/

NAACP President to Commemorate African Maafa
Juliana Bolden | naacp.org | 2018-09-17
Event to honor ancestors and mark African holocaust in Brooklyn, NY Baltimore, MD — On Tuesday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson will speak at the 24th Commemoration of The Maafa at the St. Paul Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York at 7pm EST. President Johnson will address the relevance of the African Maafa and the current […] | The post NAACP President to Commemorate African Maafa appeared first on NAACP.
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