racism

TheLipTV | — “Six million White Americans have some African ancestry, according to a new study, which looked at the genetic records of 145,000 people, using the genetic testing service 23andMe.com, who identified as European, African and Latino. The study found that 3.5 percent of White Americans have 1 percent, or more African ancestry. We […]

African-Americans

What Ferguson, Eric Garner, and CIA Torture Have in Common

contributors

By Shahid Buttar | (Daily Kos) | From black sites to #BlackLivesMatter, it’s time to end impunity for criminals with badges. There’s no better way for Washington to commemorate Human Rights Day than by letting the public finally learn the truth about torture. And there’s no better way for concerned Americans to do so than […]

Israel

Not the Onion: American alleged Terrorist Indicted by Israel for Planning Attacks on Muslims

contributors

TheLipTV | — “A U.S. citizen has been indicted by the state of Israel for planning terror attacks on Muslim holy sites. The man, 30-year-old Texas native Adam Everett Livvix, was arrested in November on suspicion of possessing illegal weapons and planning a terror attack. However, this isn’t the first time Livvix has been under […]

African-Americans

Top 5 ways US treatment of African-Americans resembles Apartheid South Africa

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | — From 1949 though the early 1990s, South Africa was ruled by an Afrikaner Apartheid regime that made race the basis for law and politics, and which systematically excluded black Africans from their civil and national rights, empowering white Afrikaners alone. The social statistics produced by that regime, however, are not […]

Islam-hatred

Court allows Glenn Beck to be Sued For Defamation By Saudi He Constantly Defamed

contributors

By Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) | — “”The conservative commentator Glenn Beck failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a Saudi Arabian student who Beck repeatedly accused of involvement in and being the “money man” behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston on […]

Israel

Far-Right Israeli FM Lieberman: Offer Israeli Arabs Money to Move to [Non-Existent] Palestinian State

contributors

Wotchit | — “Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proposed on Friday that Arab citizens of Israel be offered financial incentives to leave the country and relocate to a future Palestinian state. Lieberman, whose ultra-nationalist party is a core part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, has previously spoken about redrawing borders but not about using […]

African-Americans

Rudy Giuliani Wants To Prosecute Ferguson Witnesses

contributors

The Young Turks | — “Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani weighed in on the Ferguson grand jury decision Tuesday night and said that if it were his case, he would prosecute some witnesses to the police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown for lying about what they saw. In an appearance on Fox News’ […]

African-Americans

Racial Fearmongering and Ferguson: US Stereotype of “violent” African-American Men as old as Slavery

contributors

By Peter Bloom, The Open University (The Conversation) The decision not to charge police officer Darren Wilson with the unlawful shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown has reignited protests across the US. The judgment was met by violent outrage on the streets of Ferguson. After months of deliberation, a grand jury ruled that there was […]

African-Americans

Race inequality between US Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers (Again)

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | — With regard to employment, African-Americans got hit harder by the Bush Depression than did whites, and jobs have not come back for them at nearly the same rate: This vast difference between Euro-American and African-American rates of employment holds true regardless of educational level; college-educated African-Americans are also twice as […]