Above Photo: Leonard Peltier. Gary Stevens. The Native American activist’s attorney tells Robert Scheer why Peltier’s imprisonment is one of the worst miscarriages of justice this country has ever seen. Too few have heard of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist who has been imprisoned for 44 years based on accusations that were never proven and a trial that was appallingly mishandled. Based on his mere presence in South Dakota’s 1975 Pine Ridge Reservation shoot-out, where one Native American activist and two FBI agents were killed, Peltier has spent the better part of his life behind bars. As the website FreeLeonard.org points […]
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The Louisiana Supreme Court building is pictured in New Orleans. Fair Wayne Bryant was convicted in 1997 of stealing hedge clippers and sentenced to life. Bill Haber/AP hide caption toggle caption Bill Haber/AP The Louisiana Supreme Court building is pictured in New Orleans. Fair Wayne Bryant was convicted in 1997 of stealing hedge clippers and sentenced to life. Bill Haber/AP A Louisiana man serving a life sentence for stealing a pair of hedge clippers in 1997 was paroled on Thursday, after spending more than two decades in prison for his crime. That act of simple burglary wouldn’t normally lead to a […]
In 2016, then-Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump picked then-Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, shortly after the latter reportedly delivered a “vicious monologue” about Democrat Hillary Clinton, who was Trump’s opponent at the time. During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly suggested that his eldest daughter Ivanka should serve as his running mate, according to a soon-to-be-released book by former deputy Trump campaign manager Rick Gates, a copy of which was obtained by the Bloomberg news agency. In the book titled “Wicked Game: An Insider’s Story on How Trump Won, Mueller Failed, and America Lost”, Gates specifically focused […]
How local Arab uprising in Northeast Syria may wipe US forces & their SDF proxies out of the region …from Sputnik News, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: RT leads off this article stating that US personnel are being attacked by people inside Syria, when it is really a counter-attacking operation to prevent that part of Syria from permanent occupation by the US or its chosen proxies. The tribal chief’s are not innocent in all this as they got conned by the US to side with it against Assad. Usually a fair amount of money would have changed hands to grease the skids […]
While Zionism is clearly a nationalist ideology, that narrow framing does the term an injustice as it is so much more. Zionism is more accurately described as a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behavior. Naïve Jews were its first victims when induced to identify with an enclave in the Middle East that President Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, was induced to recognize as a “state.” Zionism is first and foremost a mental state that manifests as a dispersed form of internalized nationalism—a Diaspora—that binds to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot there. […]
Georgina Rodriguez has rounded off a busy week of twerking, posing with her partner and family aboard a vast yacht and showing off a luxury car by leaving little to the imagination on Instagram, adding that she has “no worries”. Rodriguez has spent an enviable proportion of June and July on a yacht which reportedly costs her lover, Juventus and Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo, £30,000 a week to hire. She began by posting a video of herself shaking her backside at the camera in a tight pink outfit with a pinched black waist, then held Ronaldo’s 10-year-old son, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr, […]
Seoul, South Korea’s Mayor found dead. Longest serving Seoul mayor, Park Won-soon, was found dead this morning near a mountain in the northern part of the city. A former employee of Park reported a sexual harassment case against him hours before the he disappeared. SFGate reported: Advertisement – story continues below The missing mayor of South Korea’s capital, reportedly embroiled in sexual harassment allegations, was found dead early Friday, more than half a day after giving his daughter a will-like message and then leaving home, police said. TRENDING: Radical Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant Vows to Overthrow the United States and […]