US Was Model for South African Apartheid
The US acted as midwife to South Africaâs apartheid system, said Dr. Gerald Horne, author of âUS Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.â Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black Americaâs most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated âthe blueprintâ for South Africaâs apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as âa combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.â
Mumia Book Supplants Howard Zinn
âMumia has decided to go to the next level and replace Howard Zinn,â the revered author of âA Peopleâs History of the United States,â said Todd Steven Burroughs, an author and biographer of Mumia Abu Jamal, at a roundtable discussion of Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria three-part book, âMurder Incrporated,â at Newark, New Jerseyâs Source of Knowledge bookstore. Mumia and VIttoria bring a âdecolonized perspectiveâ to US history, said Burroughs.
On Prison Radio, Abu Jamal said voters should reject Joe Bidenâs presidential candidacy because of his support for the 1990s Crime Bill, a bankruptcy act that enslaved students to college debt, and the Iraq war.
Mackler Running Against War
âIf weâre going to change anything in the word,â said Socialist Action Party presidential candidate Jeff Mackler, âwe need to build a massive, united social movement that challenges the inherent prerogatives, interventions and wars of capitalism.â
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The US sows hysteria about China because Washington can no longer dictate global affairs without any significant challenge.
What Kagame has done to Rusesabagina, of Hotel Rwanda fame, embarrasses the US foreign policy establishment that has lionized his brutal regime for so long, writes Ann Garrison.
Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
Some thugs like to Lie all dayâ strip our rights away,
Africa canât demonstrate independence and power because the entire continent has a giant U.S. military boot on its neck.
