US history

James Mattis Is A War Criminal: His Attack On Fallujah Firsthand

December 8, 2016 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org Educate! US history, War Criminal

By Dahr Jamail for Truthout - At that time I broke the story of the US military's use of white phosphorous, an incendiary weapon similar to napalm in its ability to burn all the way down to the bone. The use of white phosphorus was a violation of international law, given that it was unleashed in the city during a time when the Pentagon itself admitted to at least 50,000 civilians still being present. More than 200,000 civilians were displaced from their homes during the November siege, and over 75 percent of the city was destroyed. The horrific legacy of depleted uranium contamination continues, with stillbirths and birth defects still occurring at astronomical rates, creating a situation so extreme that some Iraqi doctors are calling it a genocide.

The Long & Bloody History Of ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis

December 8, 2016 Patrick Martin, www.wsws.org Educate! History, US history, US military

By Patrick Martin for WSWS - Trump made the remark towards the end of his rally-style address in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he elaborated a perspective that combined extreme nationalism and militarism with demagogic promises to defend the interests of the working class. He referred several times to Mattis’s nickname, “Mad Dog,” given to him after he led the savage Marine counteroffensive that retook the Iraqi city of Fallujah in December 2004. Only in today’s America could the nomination of a general with that moniker be hailed as a sign of moderation and good sense. Mattis’s nomination will require special legislation to pass Congress

75 Years Of Pearl Harbor Lies

December 2, 2016 David Swanson, www.davidswanson.org Educate! Propaganda, US history

By David Swanson for Let's Try Democracy - Pearl Harbor Day today is like Columbus Day 50 years ago. That is to say: most people still believe the hype. The myths are still maintained in their blissful unquestioned state. "New Pearl Harbors" are longed for by war makers, claimed, and exploited. Yet the original Pearl Harbor remains the most popular U.S. argument for all things military, including the long-delayed remilitarization of Japan -- not to mention the WWII internment of Japanese Americans as a model for targeting other groups today. Believers in Pearl Harbor imagine for their mythical event, in contrast to today, a greater U.S. innocence, a purer victimhood, a higher contrast of good and evil, and a total necessity of defensive war making.

None Of Them Has Ever Been My President

November 19, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Imperialism, Presidency, US history

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - As a revolutionary Black nationalist whose socialism predates my facial hairs, I have no problem saying Donald Trump is not my president. Neither is the current occupant of the White House, nor were any of the Democrats, Republicans and Whigs that preceded him. On a chilly November day in 2009 a newly-created coalition, of which I was a co-founder, marched on the White House to denounce and renounce Barack Obama as a tool of white supremacy and the imperial war machine.

An American Story Of Resistance And Resilience

November 19, 2016 Anthony Cody, www.livingindialogue.com Educate! History, Resistance, US history

By Anthony Cody for Living In Dialogue - This week a Trump surrogate, Carl Higbie, cited the unconstitutional internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two as “precedent” for how potentially disloyal Muslims might be dealt with. Last summer, Newt Gingrich, now in Trump’s inner circle of advisors, and a possible choice for Secretary of State, proposed reactivating the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Teachers are being told that they must not exhibit “anti-Trump bias,” in an effort to normalize the aberration that has occurred.

Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate

September 28, 2016 Shawn Leigh Alexander, www.aaihs.org Educate! Black History, Journalism, US history

By Shawn Leigh Alexander for AAIHS - Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America from 1880 to 1928. In 1883 Fortune, who was born into slavery in Florida, relocated to New York and became the lead editor of the New York Globe (subsequently named the Freeman and the Age), which quickly became the most widely read black paper of the era.

Star-Spangled Bigotry: Hidden Racist History Of National Anthem

August 31, 2016 Jason Johnson, www.theroot.com Educate! Nationalism, Racism, US history

By Jason Johnson for The Root - Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.” I know more people who can recite “America, F–k Yeah” from Team America than “America the Beautiful.” “Yankee Doodle”? No one older than a fifth-grader in chorus class remembers the full song. “God Bless America”? More people know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright remix than the actual full lyrics of the song. Most black folks don’t even know “the black national anthem.”

A History Of Lynching

July 16, 2016 Janaya Khan, www.therealnews.com Educate! Lynching, US history

By Janaya Khan for The Real News Network - Welcome to the Real News Network. I'm Janaya Khan. If you've been watching the news, if you've been having conversations around the dinner table, what you've heard and what you've seen in the world with Black Lives Matter having uprisings across the States, with five police officers in Dallas who were recently shot and Obama's speech on that, I think we're all wondering, what's next?

America: The Land Of Terrorists And Massacres

June 22, 2016 Marsha Cole, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Massacres, Orlando, Orlando Shooting, Shooting, US history

By Marsha Cole for Black Agenda Report - The updated 2016 ROOTS historical chronicle finally got it right. Africans have resisted European/American terrorism from the moment it reared its ugly head to present day struggle against state sponsored police murders of African peoples. The current version of ROOTS reminds us that beheadings, lynchings, rapes, kidnappings, selling children, working and boiling people to death did not start with ISIL – these perverted and psychopathic practices constituted the building blocks of the American empire.

What Happened To The Civil Rights Movement After 1965?

June 17, 2016 Adam Sanchez, www.zinnedproject.org Educate! Black History, Civil rights movement, US history

By Adam Sanchez for Zinn Education Project - Fifty years ago this week, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairperson Stokely Carmichael made the famous call for “Black Power.” Carmichael’s speech came in the midst of the “March Against Fear,” a walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, to encourage African Americans to use their newly won right to vote. But while almost every middle and high school student learns about the Civil Rights Movement, they rarely learn about this march—or the related struggles that continued long after the Voting Rights Act.

How The Irish Easter Uprising In 1916 Sparked US Politics

May 10, 2016 David Brundage, www.theconversation.com Educate! Politics, United States, US history

By David Brundage for The Conversation - On July 27, 1919, Marcus Garvey, the African-American nationalist then nearing the height of his influence, rose to address a crowd of almost 6,000 people who had come to dedicate Liberty Hall, on Harlem’s 138th Street, as the new headquarters of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The UNIA, which Garvey had originally founded five years earlier in his native Jamaica, had grown rapidly since its relocation to the United States. By the early 1920s, it had chapters in more than 30 American cities and African-American supporters that historians believe numbered in the millions.

The Untold History Of US War Crimes

May 9, 2016 Peter Kuzinick and Edu Montesanti, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! United States, US history, War crimes

By Peter Kuzinick and Edu Montesanti for Global Research - Peter Kuznick: It is interesting to me that when I speak to people from outside the United States, most think the atomic bombings were unnecessary and unjustifiable, but most Americans still believe that the atomic bombs were actually humane acts because they saved the lives of not only hundreds of thousands of Americans who would have died in an invasion but of millions of Japanese. That is a comforting illusion that is deeply held by many Americans, especially older ones.

Farmworkers Who Sparked Biggest Labor Movement In U.S. History

May 2, 2016 Alexa Strabuk, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Cesar Chavez, Farmworkers, Labor Movement, US history

By Alexa Strabuk for Yes! Magazine - On a dusty Thursday evening, a couple hundred yards across the railroad tracks from old town Delano, California, Roger Gadiano ambles out of his one-story house to conduct his usual tour. The gray-haired Filipino man grew up in Delano and can tell you not only his own story but also the story of a small, seemingly prosaic agricultural town. He hops into his aging pickup and points out passing landmarks that any outsider might consider bleak and forgotten: a rundown grocery store, a vacant lot, the second story of an old motel.

At 15 She Desegregated A High School, At 73 She Is Doing It Again

March 17, 2016 Rebecca Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Black History, Racism, Segregation, US history

By Rebecca Klein for The Huffington Post - When Dorothy Counts-Scoggins showed up for her first day of high school almost 60 years ago, she didn't even make it into the building before she was spat on, targeted with thrown trash and told to "go back to Africa." She was 15 years old that day in 1957 and the first black student to attend Harding High, a previously all-white school in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Police Beating That Opened America’s Eyes To Jim Crow’s Brutality

March 15, 2016 Staff, www.theconversation.com Educate! Black History, police brutality, Racism, US history

By Staff of The Conversation - On the evening of February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier that day, he’d been honorably discharged, and he was heading to Winnsboro, South Carolina to reunite with his wife. The bus driver made a stop en route. When Woodard asked if he had time to use the bathroom, the driver cursed loudly at him. Woodard would later admit in a deposition that he cursed back.

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