BY ELÉONORE HUGHES January 30, 2024 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state bank took the microphone before roughly 150 people at a forum on slavery’s legacy in his country, which kidnapped more Africans for forced labor than any other nation.“Today’s Bank of Brazil asks Black people … Continue reading Brazil’s Slave History: Recognition & Talk of Reparations
#1 – Israel-Hamas Ceasefire 22 November 2023 Israel-Hamas Ceasefire By Gwynne Dyer – Author, Historian & Independent Journalist There are really three parties to the ‘pause’ – nobody is officially using the word ‘Author, Historian & Independent Journalistceasefire’ – that brings at least a temporary end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Two of … Continue reading Dyer on the “Pause”; West Bank Eruption? A Left-Wing Jew & the War
Gwynne Dyer: Ukrainian Breakthrough? It’s a Slog. It’s nothing like the great breakthroughs of the mid-twentieth century wars, when combined air and ground forces would tear a hole in the enemy line, the tanks would pour through, and the front would roll back several hundred kilometres before it stabilised again. By Gwynne Dyer, in Opinion … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Ukraine: A Breakthrough In Slow Motion
[NOTE: Freedom schools were a key element of 1960s civil rights activism in the deep South. Their important legacy is no longer only history, but is now being revived and reinvented, starting in Florida, as resistance to resurgent racism in education. What a great idea.] Washington Post After Florida restricts Black history, churches step up … Continue reading Freedom Schools Are Back! (Starting In Florida)
In Germany, the AfD are weaponising climate change The Economist — Sep 14th 2023 A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of a rising hard right. In Germany the overtly xenophobic Alternative for Germany (afd) has surged to become the country’s second-most popular party. Its success is polarising domestic politics and it seems poised to … Continue reading A fresh wave of hard-right populism is stalking Europe