As the US Supreme Court aspires to drive a nail into the coffin of affirmative action, it is important to recognize how the Cold War helped to shape the mid-twentieth-century civil-rights people’s victories and the consequent policy of Affirmative Action in education. Some may find that connecting the conflict between the US and the USSR […]
Just viewed, for the first time, the 2012 ESPN documentary Ghosts of Ole Miss written by Wright Thompson and directed by Fritz Mitchell. The film covered the 1962 segregationist riot at the University of Mississippi in opposition to the first African American student being enrolled there, James Meredith. Interspersed into it all was the undefeated […]
A photo I took during the early days of BLM. It was December 4, 2014. Black Lives Matter had sprung up almost four months earlier after the events in Ferguson, Missouri. The remnants of Occupy Wall Street immediately latched onto this Movement™ as if it were life support. Our plan that night was to stage […]
Miko Peled on how long-running racial tensions, social divisions and the systemic oppression of Palestanians have all culminated in the current crisis in Israel.
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Unimpeded Jewish settler violence has left the Palestinian people in desperation. “Between 2010 and 2019, nearly 3,000 Israeli settler attacks killed at least 22 Palestinians and injured 1,258 others across the occupied West Bank.” “Data collected by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reveals that there have been at least 570 attacks against […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On Wednesday, July 19th, the Asian-American Sharon Zhang headlined “Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli Apartheid” and reported that on the prior day, the U.S. House passed 412 to 9 “a resolution vowing perpetual allyship with Israel and denying the country’s apartheid against Palestinians.” Zhang wrote: In […]
France is a nation divided by history, terrorism and a struggle for integration, writes Ed West in the Spectator. The ongoing ‘Intifada’ is a legacy of the brutal, violent end to France’s colonial empire.
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This week’s News on China. • SCO’s 23rd Summit • Measures to protect the chip industry • Over-reliance on seed imports • Fewer Chinese students in the US
Among the most dangerous people in the US are those who actually once fervently believed the foundational myths of the country’s social and political order. It’s the true believers — we who are schooled on republican virtues, democratic procedures, universal equality, and fair play that are said to be deeply embedded in the US experience […]
France's latest riots were not incited by its colonial past but because a cop shot a suspect who tried to flee. But it's clear this is a pretext for Leftists to violently advance their globalist agenda, says Eugyppius.
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