The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black America’s most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated “the blueprint” for South Africa’s apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as “a combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.”
The case of the Wilmington Ten was one of the most egregious instances of injustice and political repression from the post-World War II black freedom struggle.
Only policies that provide people with authority to hire and fire police, investigate, conduct hearings and decide punishment will end police brutality.
The billionaire is leading the scramble for Bolivia’s lithium resources under a coup government.
It is now all but certain that Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate.
A democracy is not just being “allowed” to “choose” your representatives, but having representatives that actually align with peoples material interests.
