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Following Murder of Dr. King: Lessons of the April 1968 Black Rebellions, by Sam Marcy
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by Sam Marcy
Workers World, Apr. 4, 2023
April 4, 2023
Following are excerpts from an article published on April 11, 1968, in WW newspaper, by Workers World Party founding Chairperson Sam Marcy, a week after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee.
Chris Hedges and Boyah J. Farah: America Made Me a Black Man
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jan 13, 2023
Boyah J. Farah fled the war in Somalia arriving in the United States as a refugee with his mother and siblings when he was fifteen. His romantic dreams of America quickly ran into the dark undercurrents of American racism.
I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision, by Michael Parenti
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by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published August 29, 2013
January 12, 2023
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech—has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States. But the more attention given to King’s extraordinary speech, the less we seem to know about King himself, the less aware we are about the serious challenges he was presenting, challenges that remain urgent and ignored to this very day.
Happy New Year! Who Was The Radical MLK?
The Racists Return to Kindergarten, by Robert C. Koehler
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by Robert C. Koehler
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 1, 2022
Damn those Marxists!
You know their game, right? They want to spew truth and real history at our kids. No doubt they’re also in favor of dropping charges against Julian Assange, who (as all real Americans know) deserves 175 years in prison for exposing — with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian. Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País — embarrassing realities about U.S. foreign policy.
Read Glen Ford, by David Swanson
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Jan. 12, 2022
October 23, 2022
Someone asked me the other day for advice on collecting the best essays of the past 20 years. I recommended the new collection of Glen Ford’s called The Black Agenda. I recommend it to everyone — including people who are not black. I’m not black.
Michael Hudson and Ralph Nader: The Federal Reserve, Quantitative Easing, and Who Runs the US Treasury
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 17, 2022
Some follow up comments to my appearance on the Ralph Nader show.
The “American Experiment” Is Dying. What Will Replace It? by Rainer Shea
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea’s Newsletter, Sept. 18, 2022
September 19, 2022
The United States is considered the longest standing “democracy” by bourgeois thinkers because it’s never actually been a democracy, and has survived so long by undemocratically suppressing its proletariat. The jingoists who say it’s a republic and not a democracy are at least being honest about the nature of the social order they support. The USA was designed to be a modern version of Rome, an empire that only represented the interests of those who most directly benefit from the violence against the oppressed nations. Those being the rich, and the social base that’s bribed to align with the interests of the rich.
Marjorie Cohn: The Aftermath of 9-11 Lives On + Ray McGovern and Jason Leopold: 9/11 Not an “Intelligence Failure” + Ralph Nader on 9/11: The Empire’s Overkill + Abby Martin: 9/11 and the Belligerent Empire
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The Aftermath of 9-11 Lives On
Originally posted Sept. 11, 2019
TheRealNews on Sep 11, 2019
Even though a federal judge declared the government’s terrorism watchlist unconstitutional, no real remedies were put in place and the violations of civil liberties and the US wars abroad continue, says Marjorie Cohn.
Brian Becker: How the State Attacked Socialism in the US: Infiltration, Violence, Deportation
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BreakThrough News on Aug 25, 2022
Welcome to a special crossover of Dispatches with Rania Khalek and The Socialist Program with Brian Becker!
Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train
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with Howard Zinn
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally posted Feb. 6, 2010
August 28, 2022
RaddleTube on Aug 22, 2022
Documentary in which professor Howard Zinn recounts his life as a writer, educator, and leader in nonviolent social protest.
The Chris Hedges Report: W.E.B Du Bois: One of America’s Most Important Intellectuals
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Aug 26, 2022
W.E.B Du Bois was the first Black to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, and the Niagara Movement, and one of the seminal scholars of American history.
Chris Hedges: The Importance of Howard Zinn
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Dandelion Salad
August 22, 2022
Originally published Jan. 25, 2020
with Chris Hedges and Howard Zinn
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 6, 2022
On the show this week Chris Hedges discusses the importance of historian, Howard Zinn, for a fuller understanding of American history, with author and journalist, Ray Suarez.
The Chris Hedges Report: Inside the Minds of White Nationalists
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Aug 19, 2022
On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi after fire-bombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the south by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks to frighten them from abandoning calls for desegregation and voting rights.
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