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jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Nov.08.2008
On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, come revelations that blueprints were found, from 1941, in a Berlin flat that reveal the plan to expand the concentration camp at Auschwitz, and annihilate 11 million European Jews.   You'll recall that Kristallnacht,...
krys-freeman's picture
Nov.06.2008
Whether or not Ralph Naders prevailing message about the working class has an iota of truth in it, his inability to address his inappropriate use of a racially charged and derogatory trope to offer that message, renders him and the message irrelevant . This isn't a KRAMER situation because it isn't...
lawrence-grobel's picture
Nov.05.2008
Just thought I'd share this with you all: Righting Civil Wrongs - Larry 
thomas-dotson's picture
Nov.04.2008
The world changed tonight. A surely as it changed the day the Berlin wall came down. I am filled with such joy and amazement. My country has made a  wonderful, history-making choice. A choice that makes me feel hopeful. Hope, what a strange feeling for a pessimist like me. However, there's other...
ugo-mattei's picture
Oct.27.2008
A reader of Plunder sends me the following story from Australia. As with the Incas (human sacrifice), the Afghans (Burqua),  the Somali (female sexual "mutilation"), also the first Australians have been accused of terrible violations. the usual strategy  to plunder resources and to dump...
farzana-versey's picture
Oct.17.2008
I wouldn’t be as pat as Fidel Castro. The former Cuban President thinks it is a “pure miracle” that Barack Obama has not been assassinated as yet, despite the deep racism that exists in the US. “Millions of whites cannot reconcile in their minds with the idea that a black man with his wife and...
clinton-fein's picture
Oct.10.2008
It’s not the freakish, shrill non-answers she gives in the few not-quite interviews by not even close to journalists. It’s not the hard core fundamentalism, sugar-coated to create an illusion that she supported her unmarried teenage daughter’s “choice” to carry her fetus to term, when she would...
donna-johnson's picture
Sep.27.2008
The new kkk has their white hoods off these days because, as they said on their website, they are progressive and more effective in drawing attention to their cause on behalf of the white race, or white christian americans. Supreme Master Maverick McCain Showed Who Is Really In Charge in the...
amy-king's picture
Sep.26.2008
Click To Play   Part 1 of 3 Stay tuned for the *complete* audio of the Race and Poetry panel @ PennSound [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/King.html or on a "bigger" page, waiting to hear]. In the meantime, *incomplete* video @ Blip.TV [http://amyking.blip.tv/ - better...
robert-gray's picture
Sep.24.2008
scars still starkly markthe map of old mobile ancient racial scarsscars of segregationand oppressionseen in the streetsin anonymous eyeslooks of anger regretand resentmentlinger from the residueof separation andinequality they remainmarked indeliblyin countless eager mindsextinguished dreamsand put...