Moral Hypocrisy and U.S. Exceptionalism

In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin raised hackles among the talking-heads across the U.S. when he questioned the wisdom of President Obama’s evocation of the narcissistic idea of “American exceptionalism.”


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7 Rip-offs You Need to Know About

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Why America's Police Are More Dangerous Than Criminals

The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government.

At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.

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The Dark Side of The Western Civilization

We all admire the Western Civilization, but Do you really know what makes it possible?
The image above depicts what makes it possible for each American or European to enjoy the wealth and quality of life they have.
For Americans or Europeans to enjoy their current lifestyle, their military forces have to invade, occupy, and loot foreign lands, kill or enslave millions of people. Most of them don’t know that!

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Steve Biko

But the antidote for this particular non-racialist superstition was indicated, even during the integrationist 1960s, by John Oliver Killens when, in his 1965 essay “The black writer vis-Ã -vis his country” he observed that:Negroes are the only people in this world who are set apart because of who they are, and at the same time told to forget who they are by the very people who set them apart in the first place.” -[Killens, 1965:358-359] A few years later, in the early 1970s, the young Steve Biko, in building his Black Consciousness Movement, developed the much-needed therapy for this superstitious fear. Among other things, he

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Faces of White Supramacy

The analogue of the relationship between the White liberal and the neo-con is that of the left hand and the right hand; connected to the same body and necessary for clapping for the continuation of white supremacy. The left hand is as equally dependent on the right hand, as the right is dependent on the left.[1] Together the central system of white supremacy is adept at better managing,

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Kenyan founding president Jomo Kenyatta

This is the second and last part of a fable told by the late Kenyan founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, when he explained what Pan-Africanism should be and must be. Kenyatta was one of the founding figures of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) the predecessor to the African Union.

In the first part of the fable, Kenyatta talked about the friendship between elephant and man and how the former took over the latter’s hut after being allowed to shelter his trunk.

Lion, being the king of the jungle, intervened by putting together a commission to resolve the issue between elephant and man.

The commission was headed by elephant that called friends whom he knew would stand by him.

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