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Black Lives Matter in Australia: wherever black people are, there is racism – and resistance

Black Lives Matter in Australia: wherever black people are, there is racism – and resistance

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By Patrisse Cullors and Rodney Diverlus — Of the many remarkable moments on our Australian trip so far, there’s one that stands out. On Tuesday night, we visited the Redfern community centre to meet with local Indigenous people and hear their stories. After playing the didgeridoo, Nathan Scott stood up, opened up his notebook and read out his father’s story. He was only six months old when his father Douglas…

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America’s expanding ‘shadow war’ in Africa

America’s expanding ‘shadow war’ in Africa

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By Katrina vanden Heuvel — That four U.S. Army soldiers lost their lives in an ambush in Niger should spark a reckoning. While U.S. news outlets flood us with reports on President Trump’s alleged insults to a widow who lost her husband and the congresswoman who defended her, and probe the tactical details of the ambush, the real question is: What are U.S. soldiers doing in combat in Niger and elsewhere across…

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Members of the 3rd Special Forces Group, 2nd battalion cry at the tomb of US Army Sgt. La David Johnson at his burial service in the Memorial Gardens East cemetery on October 21, 2017, in Hollywood, Florida. Sgt. Johnson and three other US soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger on October 4, 2017.

The US, Africa and a New Century of War

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By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout — Most Americans’ broad ignorance regarding Africa is a long-standing phenomenon, one perpetuated from the top down. In 2008, the campaign staffers tasked to wrangle Sarah Palin were terrified people would discover she thought Africa was one big country. In 2001, President George W. Bush told a gathering in Sweden, “Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.” Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to none other than the…

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Wealthy Institutions Quietly Financing White Nationalism

Wealthy Institutions Quietly Financing White Nationalism

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Organizations that claim to serve the public good are enriching Robert Mercer. By Judd Legum and Danielle Mclean, Think Progress — The connection between Breitbart, a far-right website, and the white nationalist movement was hardly a secret. Steve Bannon, who served as Executive Chairman of the publication before and after serving as Trump’s chief strategist, called Breitbart “the platform for the alt-right,” a euphemism for white nationalists and their sympathizers. These extreme…

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Illustration by Marion Fayolle

How Protest Works

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By Kenneth T. Andrews — Do protests and social movements matter? Do they really bring about change? Answering this question is tricky. It’s not obvious, for example, how much the recent shift to the right in American politics reflects the efforts of the Tea Party movement and how much it reflects deeper developments such as increasing racial hostility and negative reactions to globalization. Sometimes a movement matters far less than the social, economic and political forces that give rise to the movement itself.

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RAM member Ben Daley (center) attacks an unidentified woman at the “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign of Menace

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They train to fight. They post their beatings online. And so far, they have little reason to fear the authorities. By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham for ProPublica — It was about 10 a.m. on Aug. 12 when the melee erupted just north of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia. About two dozen white supremacists — many equipped with helmets and wooden shields — were battling with…

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Idris Elba as the Asgardian warrior Heimdall in Thor: the Dark World. (photo: Marvel/Yahoo)

Yes, White Supremacists, Some Vikings Were Muslims and Thor Was Brown

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By Juan Cole — The archeological identification of stylized Arabic text for God (Allah) and Ali (the prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law) in burial garments of the Vikings in Sweden has thrown white supremacists into a tizzy. While the garments could just be the result of trade with the Middle East, it can’t be ruled out that there were some converts to Islam. This possibility drove the Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, the…

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