Cambridge Police Caught 'Testilying' in Gates-gate Police Report

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and President Bill ClintonThe Cambridge Police Department has changed its story twice regarding where they got the information that the two people on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s porch were Blacks. As reported here yesterday, they first said the...

"Whites-Only" PA Pool Draws Protesters, International Criticism

The Washington Post today is focusing attention on a pool in Pennsylvania that told Black children they couldn't swim there because . . . they're Black. Although lawsuits are certainly an option in this case, I actually think that the protests these children are...

Simon and Schuster Viewing Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Project?

Site Meter Records Simon and Schuster Interestin Truth About Kos (DailyKos) Blog ProjectThis post is an acknowledgement of the interest that one anonymous user at Simon and Schuster has expressed in learning about the "Truth About Kos (DailyKos)" Project, which I...

Mainstream Media More Transparent, Reliable than DailyKos Blog

The Secret History of DailyKos' Founder and the Shadowy History of a Big Box Blog Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and The Truth About Kos (DailyKos).Having written letters to the editor of newspapers, including one published in the Boston Globe, and having...

Has the afrosphere Been Infiltrated by CIA Agents and/or Assets?

Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos), the Francis L. Holland Blog and Pam'sHouseBlend.This post is in response to a post I read over at Jack and Jill Politics, entitled, "Jill [Contee] is Headed to Blogging While Brown on Friday."I'd be really interested to know...

EasyWidget Leads to Petition on Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation

Click here to get the HTML code for the above EasyWidget.Progressive are strongly supporting "wise Latina woman" Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the US Supreme Court.  For example, African American blogger Atty. Francis L. Holland, whose previous efforts toward...

CIA-Trained Blogger Disbursing Money to "Progressives"

Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...

New York Times Supports White Supremacist Theory of "Race"

The New York Times and the white supremacist group Storm Front share a belief that there are significant and fundamental "racial" differences between color and linguistic groups based upon and residing in their genetic heritage.  Today, for example, Ian...

It's Repugnant When the Media Describes Torture as Merely "Harsh"

The most disgusting and omnipresent cliché in journalism right now is "harsh" as a word to describe "torture, as in "harsh interrogation" (WaPost)and"harsh methods" (NYT).Look up the phrase"harsh interrogation"and you'll find it 247,000 times at Google. Look up "harsh...

What Would It Cost Obama to Prosecute the Torturers?

The title of my recent article on Obama and the torture memos was an example of hyperbolic sarcasm.  The article made it clear that the title "Obama Should Pardon the War Crimes Committed Under Bush" - was not intended as a statement of my opinion, but rather as a...

Obama Should Boycott Anti-"Racism" Conference, Theory of "Races"

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Many, many but not all Blacks, including Rep. Barbara Lee, (D-Calif.), are angry that President Barack Obama is boycotting a UN World Conference on Racism. I'm...

Obama Should Pardon the War Crimes Committed Under Bush

'Let's Forgive and Forget' President Barack Obama has released the "Torture Memos" that make it clear that it was the policy of the Bush Administration, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumseld, the military and the CIA to torture prisoners, even though...

Storming the News Gatekeepers

You can practically hear these MSM guys quaking with fear and anger-- and not just at the prospect of having to deal with 'citizen journalists', but at even having to accept their very existence. But as Faye...

AfroSpear Bloggers Launch Freedom Technology Christmas Campaign

AfroSpear bloggers are encouraging Blacks to give "the gift of technology" to their children, parents and others, to empower them to communicate in the Internet Age, with recommended gifts of computers, digicams, broadband and open source software.This Christmas, the same...

A look at Field Nego - A prominent member of the AfroSpear

MSNBC, NPR, The New Republic, regional papers and now national papers like the Los Angeles Times are profiling AfroSpear and Afrosphere bloggers.  Take a sneek peak:Attorney Wayne Bennett doesn't make waves...

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