Rankling White House officials, investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh released a controversial story Sunday claiming that the Obama administration collaborated with Pakistani officials to kill…
Many 9/11 conspiracy theories surfaced shortly after the September 11th attacks, some bringing compelling arguments, and some not holding up at all. Theorists believe that…
Close to 51 percent of Black Americans in a recent BlackPlanet/NewsOne poll think that President Obama’s covert operation in which he killed Osama Bin Laden will help him get re-electe. While polls on President Obama’s have yet to come out since Osama’s murder, many are expecting him to receive a positive spike. But while half […]
Two nights ago, President Barack Obama made an announcement from the East Room of the White House that was even more stunning than the release of his “long form” birth certificate earlier in the week: “Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted […]
BY: CARLITO RODRIGUEZ “They got him, yo. They got Bin Laden.” That’s how I heard. Unlike other hip-hop journo cum Twitter pundits whose daily grind requires them to keep eyes glued to the tube (“flatscreen” just doesn’t do it for me, sorry) while thumb-typing their way into relevance at 140 characters a minute, my May […]
Religion gives God a bad name. Unfortunately, all some crackpot usually has to do to get a following is cloak himself in one or more tenants of an existing religion and folks will follow him like he’s the New Prophet. And the problem is there are, quite simply, so many tenants. Like, let’s say Osama […]
Now that Bin Laden has been killed, there is still a major terrorist on the loose. A terrorist mastermind who is wanted in several countries for blowing up a plane, bombing tourist locations and trying to assassinate a prime minister. The terrorist mastermind is Luis Posada Carrilles, a Cuban born former aide to the dictator […]
NewsOne’s Bakari Kitwana interviews Vijay Prashad about the implications of the recent killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladan. Kitwana and Prashad discuss the American public’s euphoria surrounding this news and what this death means for the war in Afghanistan, and the future of America’s enemies—from Al Qaeda to the Taliban. They also talk […]
