This is Another Reason Why the Oppressed of The World Call Him "O-Bomb-Yuh".

Wilileaks documents show more drone attacks in this past year than the entire 4 years of Bush! Anyone who says that Iraq and Afghanistan are "Bush's War's" are dellusional to the core and are the enemies fo alla humanity. Both wars have ESCALATED EXPONENTIALLY under Obama, right along with other forms of capitalist-imperialist terror within U.S. borders:

• the explosion of police brutality, harrassment, and outright murder against black and latino peoples,
• the increase in deportations by INS,
• the increase in racially motivated violence by amerikkkan conservative/right-wing fascists amongst the population.
• the almost 'round-the-clock' protection many of these groups are given by law-enforcement, under the orders of the 'duly elected' political leadership of both amerikkkan liberal/left-wing fascists and amerikkkan conservative/right-wing fascists, or by enthusiastic supporters from within law enforcement who volunteer their services.

More from Wikileaks.

U.N. Declares Clean Water and Sanitation A Human Right. Amerikkka "abstains" from Voting.

The United Nations General Assembly has declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a human right. On Wednesday, July 28th, 2010, 122 countries supported the resolution, and over 40 countries abstained from voting, including (of course) the United States. More here.

A Critical History of [U.S.] New Communist Movement.

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.” - Marx.

Nas "My Country”.

These Little Kids Have More Heart Than Most Adults I Know. I Fight For Them!

Black Rider and Cop Watch L.A. Get Harassed by Long Beach Police Department.

Sharon Jasper Arrested for Protesting for Right Of Return.

Boycott Vaseline Products!

This past week, Vaseline launched a controversial Facebook application that encouraged users to lighten the appearance of their skin. The application was targeted at users in India, who were asked to upload their profile photos and whiten their faces.

This isn't the first time Unilever -- which owns Vaseline -- has used less-than-discreet attempts to market the virtues of white skin in India. Back in 2008, the multinational began hawking a skin-whitening product called "White Beauty."

More here.

Army Sgt. Faces 16 Years in Prison for Filming Plainclothes State Trooper Pulling a Gun On Him.

From Democracy Now...

Who Is Sara Baartman?

An Open Letter to the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement: Suggestions on Next Steps, Strategy and Unity Building.

by Kali Akuno

The righteous anger and indignation on graphic display in Oakland, California Thursday, July 8th at the mockery of justice rewarded to Johannes Mehserle for murdering Oscar Grant and the open collaboration of several non-profit organizations with the government to contain and delegitimatize the people’s resistance is a clarion call.

It’s a call not just for justice for Oscar Grant and the countless victims of police terror, but for radical, systemic change. The anger, and its focus, indicates a heightened awareness on behalf of a new generation of working class Black, Latino and Asian youth of the intractable contradictions between the imperialist state and oppressed peoples and the willingness to challenge them.

A new phase of development and a new set of challenges now confront the movement to win justice for Oscar Grant. The inexperience of the youth forces engaged and the current weaknesses and fragmentation of the left make this a very, very delicate time.

If certain conversations aren’t had, if certain lessons of the past and present aren’t incorporated, and if certain contradictions aren’t addressed, then all of the radiant energy on display July 8th could easily fade, or just as easily turn its wrath in upon itself and miss its true target.

More here.

Amerikkkan Olympic Gold Medalist Joins White Supremacist Group.

Rev. Robert Bob Richards is an Olympic 1952 and 1956 gold medal winner who was the first athlete to appear on the Wheaties cereal box.


To many, the "Vaulting Vicar" or the "Pole Vaulting Parson" was considered a true American hero. According to the American Third Position (AP3) website this all-American hero is also a white supremacist and is more than happy to join up with them.

More here.

Snitching on the Resistance: How 'celebrity' activists have set off a witch hunt against anarchist militants.

"Similarly, on June 27th, well known Toronto activist and writer Judy Rebick told a local news outlet that the black bloc should have been arrested… 'at the beginning before they had a chance to be part of a bigger crowd.' Later on the interview Rebick furthered the idea of "good protester vs. bad protester" with a twist: Now there are good militants and bad militants. The good militants just wanted to go down to the fence that was erected to protect the G20 leaders and the bad militants were the ones who smashed corporate stores and bank windows.

It is important to note that Rebick paid homage to the voting rights group the suffragettes, in her book Ten Thousand Roses. The suffragettes were a first wave militant feminist group who engaged in direct actions such as smashing store windows and setting off bombs.



More here. And here is the link for a "progressive" news organization in Canada that is publishing photos of "suspects".

Officer who Killed Oscar Grant Gets Slap On the Wrist.

"We thought the jury was dismissive,” said John Burris, a lawyer for the Grant family. “It’s a small victory, but it is not a fair representation of what happened, an officer standing over him with his hands tied and shooting him.”


The verdict, announced to a packed courtroom at the Los Angeles Superior Court, had been preceded by anxious moments in downtown Oakland, where some merchants had been boarding up storefronts in recent days in expectation of civil unrest.


Yolanda Mesa, 31, who said she was Oscar Grant’s sister in law, arrived downtown not long after the verdict, and said she was particularly upset that there had been no blacks on the jury in Los Angeles.


“We are not happy with this,” she said. “We are not happy with this at all. This is not justice.”


But for some, the very fact of a conviction of a police officer – a member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit police, not the Oakland force – was some solace. Black residents in Oakland, who make up more than a third of the population, have long had an uneasy relationship with police, whose past incidents of brutality and malfeasance have led to a long period of oversight by independent monitors and a federal judge.


“We’ve been suffering police brutality for generations,” said Lesley Phillips, a longtime Oakland resident. “We want it to end.”

More here.

ACLU Study Highlights U.S. Surveillance Society.

Welcome to the surveillance society. That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.”


The report, Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity (pdf), surveys news accounts and studies of questionable snooping and arrests in 33 states and the District of Columbia over the past decade.

More here.

Verdict Soon in Trial of Police Officer Who Killed Oscar Grant.

Jurors in the trial of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle will be given the option of convicting him of second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter or nothing at all, a judge ruled Wednesday on the eve of closing arguments. More here.

Black Congressman Opposes Obama's $33 Billion to Continue Wars of Imperialist Conquest.

"Well, it’s never been clear to me that through war we can bring peace, especially when we’re the invaders, we’re the ones using drones. We’re causing civilian deaths to many people who would otherwise be more friendly to us. We’re creating the terrorists. This is not being lost on most of the people in the country now. Our constituents now want us out of both Afghanistan and Iraq, and what we’re doing now is forming a way to discuss this with our president in an effort to make him more comfortable with doing what most people want him to do and what we thought he was going to do in the first place, namely, to clearly disengage from the military, increase the diplomatic activity, and bring in some help in terms of food supplies, aid, and positive build up of these countries and to make as many friends as we can over there rather than this ninth year of what has now become a debacle in every respect." - Rep. John Conyers (D.-MI), chair of the House Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Out of Afghanistan Caucus. More here.

So, the government can find $33 billion dollars to fund empire building, but can't find any money to extend unemployment benefits for thousands.

Israeli Killing Leaves Jerusalem Children Fatherless.

RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - "Where is my daddy? Why is he not coming home? I want my daddy," sobs seven-year-old Yasmin, her big blue eyes filling with tears. She wakes up crying every night. "My life only began when I met him. I will never meet such a wonderful man again," Yasmin's mother Moira Julani tells IPS. More here.