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Detroit cop who killed 7-year-old girl walks free after mistrial
By Stephen C. Webster Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley was spared a felony conviction on Tuesday over the killing of a 7-year-old girl after a jury deadlocked and a mistrial was declared, according to Detroit Free Press. Weekley shot and killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones on the night of May 16, 2010, as officers executed a search warrant on…
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It’s Juneteenth 2013. More Black people are in prison than were slaves and Paula Deen wants to bring slavery back
Today is June 19, or Juneteenth. While the Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, slaves in Texas didn’t find out slavery was over until June 19, 1865, hence commemorating this date as the end of legal slavery in the US. As Phillipe Copeland points out, the prison system was quickly positioned to take the…
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Private sector plays greater role in China’s economy
BEIJING, Dec. 26 — The weight of private enterprises in the overall economy is on the rise and that of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the decline, Ma Jiantang, minister of the National Bureau of Statistics, said on Friday. The number of private firms rose by 81.4 percent from 2004 to 2008 to reach 3.6 million…
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Past undetected: Nazi commander found living in US since 1949
A top commander of a Nazi SS-led hit squad and officer in an SS Division, accused of burning villages to the ground during World War II, has been living in Minnesota since 1949 after tricking US immigration officials. Michael Karkoc has concealed his past when he entered the US back in 1949, saying that he…
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Wal-Mart destroys the cultural heritage of Mexico
Part of the ancient Teotihuacán site, pictured above, is now underneath a Walmart. Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage for profit. An archaeologist gives her view. – By Dr Donna Yates As an archaeologist, I welcome the news that “[t]rade unions in Canada, the United States and Mexico are preparing protests and legal action against the Mexican subsidiary of…
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Nicaragua gives Chinese firm contract to build alternative to Panama Canal
Project will reinforce China’s growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over a key shipping route Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications. The president of the country’s national assembly, Rene Nuñez, announced the $40bn…
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Pablo Neruda May Have Been Killed By a CIA Double Agent
By SANTIAGO WILLS Nearly 40 years after the fact, Pablo Neruda’s death still bewilders Chilean authorities. Neruda, a Nobel laureate described by famed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, as “the first great poet of the Spanish language since the 17th century,” died in September 1973 of apparent natural causes. But in 2011 the Chilean Communist Party filed…
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Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist
By Sharmine Narwani The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments, those three magic words were invoked to shut down the conversation with an outraged, “are…
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Black Man Sentenced to 50 Years for Stealing Ribs
Willie Smith Ward of Waco, TX was sentenced to 50 years for tucking a rack of ribs under his shirt inside of a local grocery store in September 2011. The jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court were less than impressed with 43-year-old Ward’s previous five felony convictions for burglary, attempted robbery, aggravated assault, leaving the scene of an accident…
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Syrian army takes last militant bastion near Qusayr
Syrian army has retaken control of last militant bastion near Qusayr, bringing its operation closer to a successful end in this region. Government forces restored security in the village of Eastern Bweida on Saturday. On Friday, Syrian troops managed to retake control of several villages near Qusayr in Homs province. According to Syrian sources, the…
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