Using the Authorization of Use of Military Force passed in 2001, as well as ongoing Executive Orders renewing a declaration of a State of Emergency, the Executive Branches of both the Bush and Obama administrations have continued to escalate violations of Constitutional principles, domestic and international laws. Now targeted “enemies” will be assassinated based on…
Martin Luther King national memorial on pace for 2011 debut By Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY Forty-two years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, a memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring his legacy is a year and a half from completion. Rica Orszag, spokesperson for The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial…
Tavis Smiley and others who knew King at the time explore the significance of his Riverside Church address against the Vietnam War on April 4, 1967 in this PBD special, just aired http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/reports/episode-two.html Here is the audio and text of the actual speech in full: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
An FBI Memorandum dated October 25, 1968 has recently been released regarding their intention to prevent public access to autopsy photographs and a neuropathology report from the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968. All copies are to be collected and secured following the trial of Sirhan Sirhan in December,…
Note: New materials on assassination of Robert F. Kennedy? FBI Releases Files Kept in Room Filled with Secrets Wednesday, March 31, 2010 After concealing highly-secretive investigations for more than 60 years, the FBI has released a small volume of documents from its little known “special file room” in Washington, DC. The room, created by former…
AMY GOODMAN: On Wednesday night, PBS will air Tavis Smiley’s special MLK: A Call to Conscience. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/29/as_obama_visits_afghanistan_tavis_smiley Democracy Now! March 29, 2010 As Obama Visits Afghanistan, Tavis Smiley on Rev. Martin Luther King and His Opposition to the Vietnam War As the President renews his commitment to expand the American military presence in Afghanistan, we…
Killer of Malcolm X Granted Parole New York Times March 19, 2010, 3:03 pm By ANDY NEWMAN AND JOHN ELIGON After being turned down for parole 16 times, Malcolm X’s only confessed assassin is about to gain his freedom. Thomas Hagan has been held since moments after shots rang out in the Audubon Ballroom in…
COPA members are currently visiting Congressional members and Committee Staff members to lobby for oversight hearings on the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Here are our talking points. We are also promoting passage of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Records Act about to be introduced by Rep. John Lewis (GA) and Senator John Kerry…
Another example of Tom Hanks’ version of “history” by noted analyst Chalmers Johnson – John Judge Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, An Imperialist Comedy Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 4:41pm, January 6, 2008. Open Steve Coll’s aptly titled book, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September…
This article appeared in Time this week, my commentary follows – John Judge How Tom Hanks Became America’s Historian in Chief By Douglas Brinkley Time Magazine Saturday, Mar. 06, 2010 To the young Tom Hanks, history was as dull as an algebra equation. For Hanks — a classic baby boomer, born in 1956 — World…
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