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February 9, 2022
Truckers Block Windsor-Detroit Border as Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe Announces End of Vaccine Mandates
Editor, Health Impact News
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces vaccine passport mandates end at midnight tonight. Via Alberta COVID-19 vaccine passport to expire at midnight
The Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy entered its 11th day today, as two border crossings from Canada to the U.S. were closed down by protesters.
Rebel News is reporting that the Alberta – Montana border at Coutts has been closed again, this time by farmers.
BREAKING: The farmers have blocked the border in Coutts.
Stay updated at https://t.co/NxAr5V5Iko pic.twitter.com/XzunwKrgSq
— K2 (@kiansimone44) February 8, 2022
The border crossing in Alberta was not the only border closed down overnight, however, as the bridge between Windsor and Detroit was also blocked and shut down.
Ian Miles Cheong of Rebel News reports:
The Ambassador Bridge that connects Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan has been completely blockaded by a convoy of trucks protesting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, which remains ongoing in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
Efforts by the Freedom Convoy further in the north spilled over to the border crossing, the largest international suspension bridge and a major transportation artery between the United States and Canada as protesters blocked traffic on Monday evening.
Speaking to the Detroit Free Press, Gregg Ward, the president of Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry said that the bridge closing is unprecedented and that the last time the bridge closed for a protest was in 1990.
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In Saskatchewan, Premier Scott Moe announced today that all proof of vaccine mandates in Saskatchewan will end this coming Sunday.
He did not reference the Truckers Convoy, but instead used the excuse that the COVID-19 vaccines were “not effective” in stopping transmission of the current variant, Omicron, and that therefore the mandates are no longer needed.
Since he erroneously stated that the vaccines were effective for past variants of COVID-19, he obviously left the door open to issue mandates again in the future, and of course never mentioned just how deadly these shots are, especially for children. In fact, his Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab, followed his remarks by encouraging children to get one of the deadly shots.
However, Premier Scott Moe said it was “time to heal” and time for people in Saskatchewan to come together and stop judging their neighbors and others in their community for having differences of opinion on the wearing of masks and getting vaccines.
Despite the removal of the province’s vaccine passport policy, the truckers gathered at the Coutts, Alberta to Sweetgrass, Montana border crossing are demanding all restrictions be removed.
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Black Lives Matter to Support Truckers for Freedom
“BLM is all about supporting marginalized groups,” adds the supporter. “What the Canadian government is doing is absolutely awful, and for the mayor of Ottawa to call this a state of emergency is dreadful.”
By Toby Gelman – Monday, February 7, 2022
The Canadian Truckers for Freedom may get a fill up from an unlikely supporter — Black Lives Matter (BLM). A supporter for BLM said that the group supports and understands the problems that the Truckers are facing. For many years, BLM was also viewed as a “fringe minority,” according to the supporter.
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Ottawa Police Call in Sick as Trudeau’s Coalition Shows Signs of Crumbling
An Ottawa Police Staff Sargent is resigning effectively immediately, likely over political leadership’s mishandling of the Freedom Convoy protests.
“The National Telegraph has just gotten word from a source inside the Ottawa Police that one of their staff sergeants has resigned from his position today, likely over a disagreement with the city’s policing philosophy towards the Freedom Convoy,” the National Telegraph reported.
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“The source also said that there are unusually high rates of uniformed officers taking stress leave, vacation days, and sick days,” the report noted.
“This is another indicator that people inside the police force are not happy with the directions they are receiving from their political leaders,” the National Telegraph added.
Justin Trudeau’s failed leadership is collapsing as even Liberal MPs are defecting to the anti-mandate side.
Canadian provinces are beginning to revolt and ending their vaccine and mask mandates. Justin Trudeau’s coalition in the Canadian parliament is even showing signs of crumbling, as a Liberal MP is announcing his defection from the pro-mandate side.
“Liberal MP for Louis-Hébert (a suburb of Quebec City) Joël Lightbound came out today and held a press conference about what he called the ‘politicization of the pandemic’,” the National Telegraph reported.
This morning at 10:15, I will be meeting the media to humbly share my perspective on the crisis we are going through, on the politicization of the pandemic, and to offer some suggestions. #polcan
— Joël Lightbound (@JoelLightbound) February 8, 2022
At this press event, Lightbound explained that he would not engage in ‘these easy and absurd labels’ to smear protesters and believes the truckers and their supporters have legitimate concerns,” he added.
Lightbound explained at his press conference that over half of Canadians want the vaccine mandates and passports lifted.
MIRACLE
LIBERAL MP Joel #Lightbound stands up to @justintrudeau and perfectly explains why 54% of Canadians want vaccine passports and Covid mandates lifted.
The #TruckersForFreedom2022 #Omicronvoy #FluTruxKlan #cdnpoli #TrudeauMustGo pic.twitter.com/iDCqTiHQAJ
— Yukon Strong (@YukonStrong) February 8, 2022
Another Member of Parliament, a conservative in the House of Commons from Manitoba named Raquel Dancho, laid into Trudeau in an impassioned speech for being so far behind other advanced countries in concluding that authoritarian Covid policies don’t work. Watch:
“There are millions of Canadians, millions of them that have been deeply ostracized from society,” Dancho said. “And when you don’t listen to those people, they mobilize. And we’ve seen protests across this country for over a century and rightfully so, we have the right to peacefully protest. And I would ask the protesters outside that they do their best and stay vigilant, to stay peaceful.”
“But we are seeing other governments around the world step up with lower vaccination rates and say, ‘Look, we hear you, you’ve been traumatized. We’re moving forward. Here’s the deadline, this is the plan. No more mandates, no more masks, no more distancing. You can travel, you can live your life, you can hug each other again. Here’s the date. This is the plan. Here’s the thresholds,” she added.
“None of that in Canada. Absolutely none of that from the Prime Minister,” she went on.
“People have been traumatized and they’re mobilizing because they need some hope, they need somebody in this house of privilege to come down from our ivory towers and say, ‘Okay, little people, we hear you. So sorry we’ve traumatized you for two years. We’re gonna step up and we’re gonna give you some hope. Here’s a deadline.’ The member opposite is laughing,” she noted.
“The people in this house are incredibly privileged,” Dancho added. “You’ve kept — pardon me, that member has kept his job. Thousands of Canadians have lost their job. And he’s laughing about his privilege, his own privilege. What has he done to serve members that are marginalized during this pandemic in his community, Mr. Speaker, but laugh at them in this House of Commons? Shame on that member.”
“I would ask this government to do everything they can, I asked them this two years ago in the House, go to other countries, see what they’re doing, what are the best practices,” she went on. “How is it that other highly advanced, developed nations like the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, how — the United States, how is it that they have all the same tools we have, they have all the economic resources we have, they’ve done — their citizens have done all the work and made all the sacrifices. Why is it that those citizens get a plan for hope of when we get back to normal, when we get our lives back, when the people outside — you think they want to be here, Mr. Speaker?”
“Those people don’t want to be here,” she said. “They want to be working. But that right was taken away from them. When is there going to be a plan from this prime minister? When is there going to be compassionate leadership to say, ‘This is it. You’ve done the work. Here’s the tools. We’re moving forward.’ Our public health doctors have told us as well, it’s time to move forward, it’s time to revisit these harsh mandates and divisive policies.”
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Bolivia Gears Up for Trial Against Coup Leader Jeanine Añez
Telesur
Once Bolivia returned to democracy in 2020, international experts recommended the investigation of the acts of State terrorism that Añez and her “interim government” unleashed.
On Thursday, authorities will begin the oral trial against Jeanine Añez, a former Senator who proclaimed herself president of Bolivia during the 2019 coup against President Evo Morales. Her lawyers, however, are seeking to delay the process.
“The people are waiting for justice”, Communication Vice Minister Gabriela Alcon said, stressing that the victims of the U.S.-backed coup deserve reparation before history.
“This is not just us saying this. That was a recommendation of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which presented a report stating there must be memory, justice, truth, and reparation.”
Once Bolivia returned to democracy with the inauguration of President Luis Arce in 2020, the GIEI recommended that the authorities investigate the acts of State terrorism that Añez and her “interim government” unleashed against those who protested the coup.
The investigation of the events established that Añez assumed functions that she did not have as a lawmaker and proclaimed herself president of the Senate.
Jailed #Russian fraudster Alexei Navalny and jailed #Bolivian coup leader, Jeanine Añez, have been nominated for the the #European Parliament's #SakharovPrize for 'human rights' struggles. Says a lot about the #EU pic.twitter.com/eZqBmrwC8d
— tim anderson (@timand2037) September 16, 2021
Later, taking advantage of the chaos generated by far-right parties and militias, she proclaimed herself president of the Republic using unconstitutional procedures, which were accompanied by an intense repression that lasted for weeks.
“What happened was a rupture of the constitutional order. Human rights were violated. The population was massacred in Sacaba and Senkata. This cannot go unpunished,” Alcon recalled and rejected versions from the political opposition that accuses the Arce administration of political persecution.
The coup d’état performed in November 2019 had the support of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the mainstream media, both of which still avoid referring to the Añez regime as a “de facto government.”
Former dictator Añez declared herself on a hunger strike a few hours before her trial began, as reported by Freddy Morales, the teleSUR correspondent in Bolivia.
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February 8, 2022
GoFundMe backtracks on redistributing money for Canadian truckers, under threat of fraud investigation
By Timothy Nerozzi
Fox Business
Facing a potential fraud investigation by the state of Florida, GoFundMe reversed a decision to redistribute money given by thousands of donors to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” protesting COVID-19 regulations.
On Friday, the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe froze the convoy’s official campaign, claiming law enforcement convinced the company that the convoy had become violent and unlawful.
GoFundMe encouraged donors to submit a refund form, and said that any funds not properly returned to donors would be donated to a charity chosen by the Freedom Convoy.
Within hours, however, GoFundMe walked back the refund applications, instead announcing it would be refunding donors automatically.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he would “investigate” the company, accusing them of fraud.
It is a fraud for @gofundme to commandeer $9M in donations sent to support truckers and give it to causes of their own choosing.
I will work with @AGAshleyMoody to investigate these deceptive practices — these donors should be given a refund.
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) February 5, 2022
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Ottawa tow truck companies refuse to help police remove trucks
Westphalian Times
According to CTV News, a “ senior police source ” has told the outlet that local tow truck companies are rejecting police requests for help.
Given that tow truck companies will not help, if the police would still want to remove trucks out of Ottawa they would only have access to city-owned tow trucks used for OC Transpo buses.
Ottawa city Mayor Jim Watson said that “The city has a number of heavy industrial tow trucks as well, so there’s that availability, plus other companies that the city deals with on a pretty regular basis.”
Ottawa Police Deputy Chief said that currently there are roughly between 200 and 250 trucks parked in the downtown core but that they expect another 300 to 400 truck drivers to try and make their way downtown this weekend.
Sources say the city of Ottawa only has three tow trucks, one of which is rated heavy.
Via https://westphaliantimes.com/ottawa-tow-truck-companies-refuse-to-help-police-remove-trucks/
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Fauci’s Mismanagement of the Covid Pandemic
I have been working my way through Robert F Kennedy’s bestselling book The Real Dr Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. Eight hundred eighty eight pages long, the Kennedy’s book (which is a masterpiece) could easily be five different books. If published separately, the first would address Fauci’s disastrous mismanagement of the Covid-19 “pandemic”; the second how Fauci (who Kennedy refers to as the J Edgar Hoover of medicine) has spent the last five decades carving out a $6 billion* bureaucratic empire; the third Fauci’s mismanagement and exploitation of the AIDS epidemic; the fourth his barbaric and illegal experiments on orphans and his (and Gates’) atrocities in Africa; and the fifth his (and Gates’) collaboration with the CIA and military intelligence to orchestrate nearly two decades of phony pandemics to launch a totalitarian coup via a phony health emergency.
The topics that interest me most concern mismanagement of Covid-19 and AIDS, his illegal experiments on American children and Africans and his (and Gates’) collaboration with the CIA and military intelligence.
Mismanaging a Pandemic
A close look at the data leaves no doubt the US is among the top three western countries for Covid deaths, a fact scrupulously concealed by the mainstream media.The table below (from page 29) gives an inkling of where the US stands in comparison to other developed countries.**
Dr Fauci’s Report Card
United States2,107 deaths/1,000,000Sweden1,444 deaths/1,000,000Iran1,449 deaths/1,000,000Germany1,126 deaths/1,000,000Cuba650 deaths/1,000,000Jamaica630 deaths/1,000,000Denmark455 deaths/1,000,000India327 deaths/1,000,000Finland194 deaths/1,000,000Vietnam197 deaths/1,000,000Norway161 deaths/1,000,000Japan139 deaths/1,000,00Pakistan128 deaths/1,000,000Kenya97 deaths/1,000,000South Korea47 deaths/1,000,000Congo (Brazzaville)35 deaths/1,000,000Hong Kong28 deaths/1,000,000China3 deaths/1,000,000Tanzania0.86 deaths/1,000,000
Kennedy’s narrative begins by reviewing the extensive peer reviewed research documenting the total ineffectiveness of lockdowns, social distancing and masking policies. He moves on to introduce us to hundreds of doctors worldwide who were treating vulnerable Covid19 patients on an outpatient basis almost as soon as the illness was identified in China.
Studies dating back to 2004 support the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for common cold coronavirus, whereas 50 years of animal studies show ivermectin (IVM) to be effective against numerous viruses, including Zika, Dengue, yellow fever and West Nile virus. In March 2020, Chinese scientists published a pre-print of the first double blind study demonstrating HCQ’s in Covid-19. Since then, there have been more than 200 peer reviewed studies proving its effectiveness in Covid-19 and more than 60 peer reviewed studies of IVM’s effectiveness. Outside the US (and the UK and New Zealand), both are widely used in early outpatient Covid treatment. One study reveals that countries allowing patients access to HCQ have one-tenth the death rate of those that ban it.
Meanwhile Fauci, Bill Gates and WHO financed a cadre of research mercenaries to concoct nearly twenty studies – all employing fraudulent protocols – deliberately designed to discredit HCQ. Fauci, Gates and WHO simultaneously conspired to discredit IVM (which was saving hundreds of thousands of lives around the world) by rigging the review of extensive studies proving its effectiveness.
Their main motivation was a federal law barring FDA Emergency Use Authorizations for vaccines (in which both are heavily invested) where there are already effective treatments. Fauci is also heavily invested in Remdesevir, a drug far more toxic than either HCQ or IVM and about 2,000 times more expensive.
Thanks to the extreme greed of both men, roughly 15,000 patients a day have died needlessly from Covid who could have been saved with effective and inexpensive treatments.
*The annual budget of of the federal agency Fauci runs, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is $8 billion. In addition to controlling the bulk of federal funding for virology and infectious disease research, this enables him to “punish” FDA and CDC research advisers fail to go along with the new medications and vaccines he promotes.
**For some reason, Kennedy’s table omits Great Britain and Italy, which according to his source had death rates of 2,352 and 2,450 per million, which are higher than that of the US. France, also not mentioned is 1,877 per million and Switzerland 1,491.
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February 7, 2022
Canadian Truckers Turn to Christian Fundraising Site After GoFundMe Blocks Donations. They’ve Already Raised $4 Million.
Truckers lineup their trucks on Metcalfe Street as they honk their horns on February 5, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
Rebecca Cohen
Businss Insider
Canadian truckers in Ottawa who are protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates have turned to a Christian fundraising site after GoFundMe blocked donations to their campaign.
The group known as Freedom Convoy has since raised more than $4 million on the Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo.
“To our Fellow Canadians, the time for political over reach is over,” the group said on GiveSendGo. “Our current government is implementing rules and mandates that are destroying the foundation of our businesses, industries and livelihoods.”
“We are taking our fight to the doorsteps of our Federal Government and demanding that they cease all mandates against its people,” the group added.
The fundraiser on GiveSendGo was launched after GoFundMe revoked the Freedom Convoy’s fundraiser upon learning of the group’s actions.
“GoFundMe supports peaceful protests and we believe that was the intention of the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser when it was first created,” GoFundMe said in a statement. “We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity.”
The Freedom Convoy’s GiveSendGo page crashed a number of times on Monday as its fundraiser continued to grow.
A spokesperson for GiveSendGo told Insider that the “occasional hiccups” were occurring because of increased traffic to the site.
GiveSendGo’s website describes itself as the “#1 Free Christian Crowdfunding Site” and “a place to work together with the body of Christ around the world to make a difference.” The platform’s official Twitter account tweeted on Sunday night that it was a “miracle” that so much money had been donated in the span of 48 hours.
The Freedom Convoy has been protesting in the country’s capital for 10 days, using their trucks to block streets while supporters bring them fuel on sleds. Thousands of people are involved in the protest, Insider previously reported.
The protest caused the mayor of Ottawa to declare a state of emergency, Insider previously reported.
“Declaring a state of emergency reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations,” Mayor Jim Watson’s office said in a statement.
On Sunday, Ottawa police released a statement saying seven people had been arrested and 100 were given tickets, with 60 criminal investigations launched in connection with the mass protest.
Those who donated to the group’s initial GoFundMe can request a full refund, and any remaining funds donated to the campaign will be donated to “credible and established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy 2022 organizers and verified by GoFundMe,” GoFundMe said.
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Canadian Truckers Turn Christian Fundraising Site After GoFundMe Blocks Donations. They’ve Already Raised $4 Million.
Truckers lineup their trucks on Metcalfe Street as they honk their horns on February 5, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
Rebecca Cohen
Businss Insider
Canadian truckers in Ottawa who are protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates have turned to a Christian fundraising site after GoFundMe blocked donations to their campaign.
The group known as Freedom Convoy has since raised more than $4 million on the Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo.
“To our Fellow Canadians, the time for political over reach is over,” the group said on GiveSendGo. “Our current government is implementing rules and mandates that are destroying the foundation of our businesses, industries and livelihoods.”
“We are taking our fight to the doorsteps of our Federal Government and demanding that they cease all mandates against its people,” the group added.
The fundraiser on GiveSendGo was launched after GoFundMe revoked the Freedom Convoy’s fundraiser upon learning of the group’s actions.
“GoFundMe supports peaceful protests and we believe that was the intention of the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser when it was first created,” GoFundMe said in a statement. “We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity.”
The Freedom Convoy’s GiveSendGo page crashed a number of times on Monday as its fundraiser continued to grow.
A spokesperson for GiveSendGo told Insider that the “occasional hiccups” were occurring because of increased traffic to the site.
GiveSendGo’s website describes itself as the “#1 Free Christian Crowdfunding Site” and “a place to work together with the body of Christ around the world to make a difference.” The platform’s official Twitter account tweeted on Sunday night that it was a “miracle” that so much money had been donated in the span of 48 hours.
The Freedom Convoy has been protesting in the country’s capital for 10 days, using their trucks to block streets while supporters bring them fuel on sleds. Thousands of people are involved in the protest, Insider previously reported.
The protest caused the mayor of Ottawa to declare a state of emergency, Insider previously reported.
“Declaring a state of emergency reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations,” Mayor Jim Watson’s office said in a statement.
On Sunday, Ottawa police released a statement saying seven people had been arrested and 100 were given tickets, with 60 criminal investigations launched in connection with the mass protest.
Those who donated to the group’s initial GoFundMe can request a full refund, and any remaining funds donated to the campaign will be donated to “credible and established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy 2022 organizers and verified by GoFundMe,” GoFundMe said.
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Barack Obama’s Father Identified as CIA Asset in U.S. Drive to “Recolonize” Africa During Early Days of the Cold War
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[Source: amazon.co.uk]
By Gerald Horne
Covert Action Magazine
Over the last decade, the U.S. has been quietly expanding its covert intelligence empire in Africa as part of a growing geopolitical rivalry with China.
A new book published by Susan Williams, entitled White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, reminds us that the likely consequences will be disastrous.
Williams’s book updates an earlier study edited by Philip Agee, Ellen Ray, William Schaap and Louis Wolf, entitled Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa.
She focuses mostly on the ties between Ghana and the Congo roughly between 1957 and the coup in Accra in 1966, and the close relationship between early paramount leaders Kwame Nkrumah and the assassinated Patrice Lumumba; however, she manages to cover other hotspots as well.
The deep CIA penetration of Africa was evident in the Agency’s apparent recruitment of Barack Obama Sr., a protégé of Tom Mboya, an anticommunist, pro-capitalist Luo from Kenya who had served as the African representative of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU), which received covert CIA funding through the AFL-CIO. The U.S. was trying to groom Mboya as a replacement for Kenya’s first Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, who was perceived as more left-wing. (for more details, see Gerald Horne, Mau Mau in Harlem: The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2009). Obama was brought to the University of Hawaii in an exchange and then studied economics at Harvard, though his career floundered when Mboya was assassinated in 1969.
Barack Obama Sr Source: Wikipedia
Williams notes that the CIA generally specialized in “assassination, overthrowing elected governments, sowing conflict between political groups and bribing politicians, trade unionists and national representatives at the UN,” all clandestine and coercive strategies that were applied in Africa. Other strategies took the form of soft power initiatives; the secret sponsorship and infiltration of educational facilities, artistic endeavors, literature and Africa-focused organizations.” [465]
“Covert action of any sort, said Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who chaired the Senate Select Committee investigation into the abuses of the CIA, was nothing more than ‘a semantic disguise for murder, coercion, blackmail, bribery, the spreading of lies’—and worse.” [475]
Still, despite the revelations emerging from this senatorial investigation, the author reprimands the “narrow focus” of this body which “largely neglected CIA operations elsewhere in Africa,” beyond Congo. This body’s findings also “were weakened by its reliance on the testimony of CIA officials.” [506]
The industrious author mines archives in Austria, Belgium, Ghana, The Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Britain, the United Nations and, of course, the U.S., outstripping the 1970s’ congressional investigation. [527-528]
Still, she argues accurately that “the files released in 2017-18 under the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act contain a wealth of information that is not available elsewhere…but they are heavily redacted.” [420] Nonetheless, President Biden has postponed further releases—for the time being.
Kwame Nkrumah, first leader of independent Ghana in 1957, had studied in the U.S. “between 1935 and 1945,” principally at historically Black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. [15]
There he became acquainted with leaders of the Left, including W.E.B. Du Bois and his spouse, Shirley Graham Du Bois, along with actor-activist Paul Robeson, whom he invited to Accra to serve as a professor by 1962.
Although the foregoing leaders played a sterling role in forging solidarity, the same cannot be said for all of the hundreds of “American Africans,” to use the descriptor applied to them. Franklin Williams, a former NAACP leader, was U.S. envoy to Ghana in 1966 when Nkrumah was overthrown and he was widely suspected of complicity. [495] Pauli Murray, a justifiable heroine of the anti-Jim Crow movement in the U.S., was considered by a leading scholar of Ghana to be “something more than an unwitting asset” of U.S. imperialism. [190]
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The author also points the finger of accusation at Horace Mann Bond, father of yet another civil rights hero: Julian Bond. [58] Intellectuals, e.g., novelist Richard Wright and Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, were apparent unwitting tools of the CIA. [62, 64].
She manages to include Barack Obama, Sr., in this circle of iniquity (though she has him arriving in 1962 on these shores although the president was born in 1961). [206]
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