Former New York Times reporter and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones has long been controversial as a writer who expressly rejects objectivity and neutrality in journalism. That was most evident in her “1619 Project,” which was ridiculed by historians and law professors in claiming that slavery was the driving force behind American independence. Nevertheless, the project was awarded the Pulitzer Prize despite glaring historical errors. Yet, this month, Hannah-Jones is back on the pages of the New York Times again rewriting history. This time, she is praising cop-killer and 1960s revolutionary Assata Shakur (left).
Hannah-Jones has been a lightning rod in her writings, from declaring “all journalism is activism” to spreading conspiracy theories against the police. Yet, mainstream media, including the Times, has run interference for Hannah-Jones, including the dean of the University of North Carolina trying to shut down criticism by reminding a reporter that they must all defend Hannah-Jones.
Hannah-Jones’s latest project of historical revision is a sorrowful memorial to Shakur, which shows the same disregard for facts in favor of a preferred narrative.
Born JoAnne Deborah Byron (and later adopting the names of Joanne Chesimard and Shakur), the violent revolutionary was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she killed New Jersey police officer Werner Foerster, 34, a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran who left behind a widow and a young son. She later escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where she died earlier this year. In 2005, she was declared a domestic terrorist. In 2013, the Obama Administration put her on the most wanted list.
You would know little of that from the New York Times column. After all, all journalism is activism, according to Hannah-Jones, and, if the facts do not fit the narrative, the facts have to go.
In her column, Hannah-Jones seems to dismiss the conviction as the result of an “all-white” jury. What is omitted is that Shakur had a long and violent criminal record. She was previously shot in the stomach during what was believed to be a drug-connected crime at the Statler Hilton in Manhattan.
She was sought in other crimes, including a 1971 bank robbery. When asked, Shakur later shrugged off such crimes as a type of racial reparations: “There were expropriations, there were bank robberies.”
She was also linked to a grenade attack that injured two police officers after being identified by witnesses. In 1972, she was identified by Monsignor John Powis as one of the suspects in the armed robbery at Our Lady of the Presentation Church in Brownsville, Brooklyn. During the robbery, the priest was told “We usually just blow the heads off White men.”
She was also tied to the murder and ambushing of police officers for years before she was stopped on May 2, 1973 on the New Jersey turnpike by State Trooper James Harper who was backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle. The resulting shootout left Harper wounded and Foerster dead.
Her trials spanned a variety of charges ranging from bank robbery to kidnapping to attempted murder, and other felonies. However, while there were acquittals and a mistrial (due to a pregnancy) on different charges, she was ultimately convicted of murder before her escape.
Yet, the Times and Hannah-Jones brush over that history to gush about Shakur and the effort to shield her, even describing the criminal network as akin to the famed system used to free slaves before the Civil War: “Shakur had been hidden in the United States for several years by a sort of Underground Railroad.”
The Times column bewails how “freedom came with shattering costs for her and her family.” Not a single line of sentiment for the widow and son that her victim left behind in New Jersey, let alone the other victims in murders and attacks that she was connected to as part of the Black Liberation Army.
Of course, such sentiment is not allowed for true victims. For example, Hannah-Jones was again published by the New York Times, warning in a column that memorials to Charlie Kirk are “dangerous.”
Hannah-Jones has also chastised other writers for covering shoplifting stories because “this is how you legitimize the carceral state.”
Yet, the New York Times is still actively involved in projects to rewrite history with Hannah-Jones. This is the same newspaper that barred columns from Senator Tom Cotton for arguing for the deployment of National Guard troops to quell violent riots, but published columns by “Beijing’s enforcer” in Hong Kong and a University of Rhode Island professor who previously defended the murder of a conservative protester.
It is the same newspaper that forced out a variety of editors who published opposing viewpoints or challenged biased coverage and journalistic activism.
The Times column ends with a line that is breathtaking in its ahistorical and amoral message: “Shakur, who saw herself as an escaped slave, died free.”
A convicted murderer and wanted terrorist died in one of the most blood-soaked, repressive regimes in the world . . . but Hannah-Jones and the New York Times want everyone to know that she “died free.”
That is comforting. As for Werner Foerster, he just died and was not mentioned once by name in the Times column.
N.B. This column also ran on Fox.com
James, your little rant made no sense. Obviously you don’t understand the significance of Shakur’s militancy
X claims his rants and insults of Professor Turley make perfect sense. And in that same criminal Democrat world where X proudly lives, struts and flexes, Shakur’s violent criminal and black racist terrorist life is merely “militancy”
Terrorism and violent armed robberies are merely “militancy”. Just like criminal Illegal Aliens are merely “undocumented migrants”.
X says: Come to think of it, I’ve never seen you craft a clear, concise argument or opinion about a topic without resorting to insults or put-downs.
X/George… has there even been one day where you haven’t began your raging screeds with at least one attempt to insults, put-downs and defaming your host here, Professor Turley?
Just one out of your daily appearances over the years to use Professor Turley’s blog as your own?
He’s wrong – but you’re right.
He’s dumb – you’re clever and smart.
He’s a political hack – you however are not.
And of course: Professor Turley has absolutely no credibility – unlike you, who does.
Well done X/George – you’ve won over HUNDREDS of readers of Professor Turley’s blog. Such a successful defense of communism and racist black communist terrorist murderers like Shakur.
X says: Failure? Surely you jest. Shakur died a free woman and that is what meant most to her.
X, like Justice Jackson, can’t even define what a woman is. That aside, X (formerly Propagandist George), is not joking in the slightest when he proclaims that real freedom is living under communist control as an avowed communist in Cuba.
X claims Shakur lived in freedom where, unlike the USA she fled, if she had engaged in non-violent free speech criticism of the homophobic, mass murdering, communist narco-dictator Castro, she would have died in a communist Cuban gulag. So she went from bold black racist activist (prior to becoming a vicious murdering terrorist) to subservient peon serving as a useful American display monkey for Castro.
She lived in freedom where she could no longer travel to any free nation in the world under the protection of an American passport.
The only real question remaining this: why is this (finally) dead racist communist terrorist’s choice of freedom not been the same choice for the racist communist that posts here as X, George, etc?
Reading X defending the communism of the murderous homophobic, mass murdering narco-dictator Castro leaves you wonder why he too hasn’t also fled the oppression of life in the USA and the ability to travel on a US passport.
But that’s a rhetorical question: X/George is what Lenin referred fondly to as his communist Useful Idiots.
Imagine a mob of Trump haters invading the White House like Trump supporters invaded the Capitol.
Nobody has to imagine it – we only have to wonder if you were one of the violent Trump-hating mob who actually it? The violent rioters who for over two days attempted to breach Secret Service lines to get to Trump in order to murder him in the White House. Just weeks before the J6 three hour riot which is when you pretend is the point where known history began. You might hope memory forgets – but the Internet doesn’t:
Over 50 Secret Service agents wounded in White House riots as Donald Trump is taken to ‘terror attack’ bunker
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11752998/trump-secure-bunker-friday-george-floyd-protests-white-house/
The Times cheered the attempted murder of Trump. The Times justified the murder of Charlie Kirk.
The Times is now glorifying the murderer of a BLACK policeman who had a young child at the time of his death. When will we finally recognize that the Times is a left (Communist) leaning producer of propaganda? Thankfully there is evidence of the Times sinking readership. Let it be.
“Shakur . . . died free.”
Here the Left (including Mamdani) admit the quite part out loud: “Freedom” means a life under the yoke of a communist dictatorship.
Many conservatives will argue that Hannah-Jones is absolutely correct that the preservation of slavery was central to American colonists’ unity in supporting secession from the UK, which was seen by many Black Americans as a solid inducement to support the Brits.
History is written by people who are often indifferent to the evolving role of constitutonal law in the period they record, and highly sensitive to the demands of political correctness and national mythology.
The point where the question of keeping or deleting slavery in the new USA was with the Constitution of 1787; in order to get the southern states to sign on, the Convention had to accept slavery or no Constitution. That was almost 5 years after the British were defeated in North America.
Slavery was not an issue at the time of the Declaration of Independent in 1776. Blacks were not voters, had no standing, no political influence, they had little understanding of political issues, in the individual colonies. So picking sides was hardly not an issue; freedom with the brits, slavery with the status quo/colonists.
Jones again has twisted the facts to suit her reality bending narrative. Oh, and Ken Burns just repeated that lie in his documentary. BTW, don’t waste your money on it.
“Slavery was not an issue at the time of the Declaration of Independent in 1776. ”
Incorrect. Slavery was not THE issue in the revolution.
The British made a tactical decision to offer freedom to colonial slaves that assisted Great Britian.
They did NOT offer broad emancipation – GB had millions of slaves in the Caribean.
There is much wrong with Burns documentary – but it is true that the British offered SOME blacks freedom in return for fighting for Britian.
and SOME blacks accepted that offer. On NET it was ineffective as there was not much more trust among blacks of the british than of the colonials. Britian had millions of slaves in the Caribean and colonial blacks were well aware of condictions there that were worse than in the US south. Further the british offer of freedom to slaves moved even more southerners from loyalist or neutral to supporting the revolution.
Burns also notes the British decision to hire foreign mercenaries. That decision too likely had more benefits to the colonists than the british.
While the british got a few more troops, this too angered colonists and tipped more from loyalist or neutral to supporting revolution.
All that said – Jefferson’s passage int he constitution blaming King George for inflicting slavery on the colonies was famously struck from the declaration of indepence in order to get the southern states to agree to the declaration of independence.
Keeping slavery was the main issue for breaking from Britain. Most Americans were not voters, had no standing, no political influence. Saying they had no understanding of political issues is interesting when they were specifically prevented from knowing about political issues,it being criminal to teach slaves to read in many of the colonies.
Notice the lack of laws against teaching dogs and cats and cattle and horses to read? The freedom loving founders 100% to a man, as women were not allowed to participate, knew that the enslaved were not property, but were created equal and then forced to labor against their will by men who would kill them for disobedience. This was a far worse crime than “taxation without representation” and they all knew it.
Many conservatives will argue that Hannah-Jones is absolutely correct that the preservation of slavery was central to American colonists’ unity
Communist Democrates like Hannah-Jones will always attempt lies like this. Hoping they can successfully argue that they actually speak with conservatives – or have special mind reading powers to know how conservatives think.
Justifying racist Democrat lies with more Democrat lies.
“Many conservatives will argue that Hannah-Jones is absolutely correct that the preservation of slavery was central to American colonists’ unity in supporting secession from the UK, which was seen by many Black Americans as a solid inducement to support the Brits.”
No one need “argue” that it is undeniably true. It is well documented that the declaration of independence and later the constitution could not have been approved by the continental congress if they restricted slavery.
The FACT that 1619 has a SINGLE or even a FEW correct claims does not make it historically accurate.
There is only one accurate past reality. There are many efforts to express even shape that past to fit some narative.
Some of those are more accurate and some are less. 1619 is near garbage.
On the whole while “history” is written by people with biases and agenda’s we also put enormous effort intogetting that history correct and correcting errors as we discover them.
1619 is not an effort to correct historical errors it is an inaccurate rewrite with a fraudulent agenda.
Very few would Fault Jones for pointing out the WELL KNOWN fact that our founders had to compromise and allow slavery in order to gain independence and establish a country.
Few would fault Jones for noting that to SOME extent the british promised colonial slaves fredom for supporting GB.
But it would be Wrong to paint that as anything more than a calculated effort to win a war.
Great Britian has Millions of slaves – many times more than those in the colonies enduring far worse treatment in its caribean colonies.
It was not until 60 years after the american revolution that slavery was ended in the British Caribbean.
However by 1814 BOTH the US and GB were actively engaged in thwarting the global slave trade.
50 years before the Civll war the newborn US Navy was interdicting slave ships accross the world.
The US, UK and later France were actively halting the global slave trade Before either country had abolished slavery.
Slave trade: I hate to break this to everyone, but slavery was not an American invention, neither was it uniquely a white man’s sin. Slavery, as an international commodity, came into the global marketplace via the Arabs/Muslims religion and culture. Hannah-Jones 1619 is on the order of willful ignorance in the pursuit of historical sabotage, in the name of hate and self-hate:
Hannah Jones shows that she does not know history. She only knows a politically convenient and specious version of an emotionally unsatisfied state of denial, thus a history that conceals facts and truth. Her version of American slavery, which includes hatred of white Europeans and Christianity, falls in line with contemporary willful ignorance, and she is creating popular-opinion for the dis-educated. This foments fierce political opposition, based on racist arguments, that have no basis in historical facts—in order to sow more hatreds and divisions, especially against whites and Christians.
Hannah-Jones is not a real student of history. She is a prevaricator [look that word up!], an emotionally-disturbed racist commentator and purveyor of extreme-leftist agitprop, especially against European-white political (and “religious”) history. She has a lot of things wrong about America, slavery and its very roots. Let’s disabuse Hannah-Jones’ fallacy, though you may cherish it: the actual “slave traders” that enslaved and killed the most people in the entire world were not European whites or Americans, and it was NOT Christianity: it was (and still IS) Islam; the numbers of victims in Islam’s religious invasions across Europe, Asia, and Africa are staggering, and far outstrip any other religious campaigns. Arab/Muslims were the people who started and fed the global slave market that Hannah-Jones ignorantly disregards in her fantasy world. Islam’s early conquests, slave trading, and killings are more in line with the Communist killings of over 100-million [no other ideological killings reach these astronomical numbers].
In a faraway time—a time that political expedience and supremacy, particularly coming from atheists, who want you to be totally ignorant—the Crusades were launched, mainly in self-defense against marauding Arab/Muslim invaders, who attacked and vanquished nearly ALL of Europe; today, many people within the left’s political-persuasion use the Crusades as a prop and self-righteous cudgel to say that white Europeans (thus, Christianity) “did some incredibly evil things in history;” thereby, they justify the rewriting of history, creating serious lies that atheists and political-haters like Hannah-Jones want you to believe with all your heart. Today’s big, and main, justification for hate against America and whites is the ignorant-but-vicious repetition of half-truths and untruths about slavery. Saying, white Europeans created it is at best an inaccurate statement, and at worst, it is a seriously “false statement.”
“Attacking” white Europeans and Christianity with the misleading information about slavery and its roots, as well as Colonialism, is a modern day revenge-fallacy, a political-ideological bent, that has no appreciation, understanding, or inclusion of actual ancient history: most western liberals utterly and perniciously leave out of the real historical record, concerning Arab/Muslim conquests and their prolific slave trade, which was politically and religiously INSTITUTED far-far earlier than the American period of slavery Hannah-Jones is so concerned about….
Culturally, Muslims had a special disdain for blacks and THEY began the global slave-trade of them. Africans themselves were [and still are!] guilty of slavery too, long before “whites” ever joined in on it; black Africans assisted Arabs in creating an international slave market by capturing and selling other tribes of black-people they wanted to eradicate. It is pure fallacy and willful deceit that he only slavery modern leftists are concerned about, is American slavery, circa 1600-1865 [ending with the 13th Amendment, and even later with Jim Crow], when Arab/Muslims perpetrated even worse crimes and on a greater scale. To be sure, ALL slavery and killing is evil, but if you want to place blame on the real “religious” killers and conquerors of “indigenous peoples” (stolen lands) and the most prolific slave-traders, Hannah-Jones needs to look at Arab-conquest. I don’t say this to defend whites or to defend ANY kind of historical-conquest, slaving, or killing, but only to say that truth matters.
Hannah-Jones does not know (or care to know) WHO the real and biggest and worst slavers on earth were, and ARE—that distinction goes to Islam, not white Europeans and Americans. The first major attack/raid on Christian land (Europe) was in Constantinople (632-634) and the Battle of Yarmuk (636), and by the time the Arabs were finished invading/conquering nearly all of Europe, killing and slaving from the Middle East, to North Africa, to Spain and Portugal, to France, to Asia/China/Indonesia, and more, they had massacred tens of millions (a very conservative estimate), but some historians say as many as 200/300-million is realistic! History records that Arab occupation of India resulted in the biggest Holocaust in human history: an early and most heinous crime against humanity that goes unrecognized in most history books and especially in Hannah-Jones silly and simplistic history about slavery. (See https://www.sikhnet.com/news/islamic-india-biggest-holocaust-world-history ).
The Crusades were launched (mostly in self-defense and in reclaiming lands that were constantly and brutally invaded by Arab/Muslims who were the original and most prolific Imperial-expansionists, the first perpetrators to introduce and establish Colonialism and “slavery” in the Western world, of which whites themselves were highly prized and enslaved even more than blacks (plenty of famous art shows this!)—bet Hannah-Jones never knew that! Bet she’s never known that most Arabs’ harems (that could be as huge as 6,000 captives), were especially filled with WHITE abducted/rape victims. Europeans Christians HAD to fight back against these heinous crimes! Thus, the Crusades began. To learn of this earliest part of this historical record (sanitized version—no innuendo) see this video, it points to the real reasons for the crusades, the throwing off constant, violent, invasion and oppression, slavery and killing that eventually went on for a thousand years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_hAaEqIs3Cs
If Hannah-Jones really wants to BE as reasonable and as virtuous as she poses, she should go out of her way to learn the real facts of history before unjustly attacking American whites of European ancestry as well as Christians. She needs to study the Arab conquest of North Africa, India, Europe, their slave trade (particularly, white slavery) and the Barbary Wars, and learn about the many countries that had to fight off Islam to keep their own rights to their own indigenous cultures and lands. Muslims forced conversions (Jizya or death)—these were the first, real and mortal, reasons for slavery as well as the Crusades, not blind/racist hatred of Arabs!!! The constant Arab/Muslim raids on Europe reveal the true source of widespread “religious killing” and slavery, those who actually made a global commodity of slavery!
This is the kind of adult discussion Hannah-Jones needs to introduce if she is indeed a true scholar, not just a purveyor of popular opinions based on hate and false histories for political gain. Those of you who have read this far down, please do your own research and raise your voices about the real roots of slavery….factual analysis of Arab/Muslim history is needed because there is already a ton of endless criticism and outright mania about whites, “white guilt,” “white supremacy,” Christianity, Trump and “the right,” and the twisting of history itself. By the same token there is little/not enough historical-factual counterpoint about the political left and Hannah-Jones’ false narratives, as the left’s own miscreants get away with so much lying because they dominate the mainstream. The mainstream refuses to question “the left and their evolving narratives,” or to hear ANYthing about them that doesn’t line up with their current Cultural-Marxism ideology, which too many accept and follow “religiously.”
We can be better than what the “media” propagandists like Hannah-Jones want us to be, but first, we have to start knowing the facts of history so that we fight the real enemies, the lies, and not our own country….
Excellent Dianna Bec!
Spoken like a person who has some wealth because their ancestors abused human beings for pleasure and profit.
Do you also go to the emergency room at hospitals and spit the same hate at them for not dying of pancreatic cancer? That their suffering is not as great as others and therefore they have no right to complain of broken limbs or a cough that has been nearly continuous for a week?
Would a true doctor even work in an emergency room by your standards? Clearly not.
No one cares about slavery anywhere else when the subject is “all men are created equal” in a country that put many of them in chains and says they are not equal. Let everywhere else deal with their slavery on their own and let Americans understand their hypocrisy.
The US was thwarting slave ships because the slaves they carried could be sold at lower prices than the US locally produced ones were. They weren’t stopping slavery, they were preventing being undercut in the free market.
If you care to rail against fraud, look no further than the lies in American school textbooks that gloss over all of this and make out how America was founded on freedom. It was founded on lawless people defying a government that had provided protection from attack by other nations and upon forced labor.
A long and sincere exposition of the REAL roots of slavery is not “railing”—clearly, it hurts your ears to hear truth. It is even clearer that neither can your prejudiced-soul abide any objective factualities that do not fit your truncated and pet worldview;
this may not be a teachable moment for you, but ALL crimes of slavery include the entire human condition, thus its full historical trajectory, and not simplistically a picking-and-choosing (actually nullification) of rooted and pertinent factors.
Did you know that Muslim/Arabs are still slave-trading black Africans, a racist fraud hidden from you by the phrase “human trafficking,” which somehow hides and absolves them of their historical and modern crimes, which you apparently bless.
“Under capitalism, man exploits man,
under communism its the reverse.”
Astrophysics is equally simple: twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Under communism, the “dictatorship of the proletariat” exploits once-free-now-captive men.
Under the Constitution, there is freedom, private property, free enterprise, free markets, beneficial competition, the creation of wealth, and prosperity.
Correction:
Under Capitalism, man exploits man, with the chance to become the wealthy exploiter himself.
Under Communism, man exploits man with the chance to do it for crumbs—now say it with me, cause it rhymes—THE REVERSE IS SO MUCH WORSE!
David B. Benson attempted this defense of Democrat communism: “Under capitalism, man exploits man, under communism its the reverse.”
Ah! Dave employs that old desperate defense of Democrat Marxists and communists: there is a clear moral equivalency between life under freely elected capitalist/free market governments and communist governments! And please: Nothing To See Here, Please Believe David, Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes™ That’s one hell of a defense to attempt to provide for Nikole Hannah-Jones and her favorite racist and murderous terrorist. Well done Davey – you’ve sure convinced me at least!
To help Benson with what he inadvertently left out (I’m sure), that quote is from the Canadian Marxist Liberal party’s Kenesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The man who then jumped the border from the Canadian Liberal Party of Trudeau The Elder to serve government Marxism by propping up and justifying Marxist Democrat presidents and their “free stuff from Democrats will buy Identity Politics votes” policies.
It’s a clever, if pathetically desperate, attempt with that vague quote. What it DOESN’T explain is why, if this exploitation is actually happening, people only flee communism to move to capitalist countries.
Communist Democrats like David B. Benson aren’t rushing to abandon their exploitation in what is left of free market America to move to Cuba, the DPRK, Communist China, Venezuela, etc.
If Democrats weren’t lying, denying, and deflecting, they’d have nothing.
In Minnesota, billions stolen from American taxpayers who worked hard to earn it. The Wonderful Walz administration, and the demonic Ilhan Omar, allowed this and blessed it.
Was the money at least spent in America to keep it within the economy? No, millions upon millions, possibly as much as a billion dollars in stolen money, were transported out of Minnesota to Somalia by Somali young men always working in cash. A former TSA agent is now saying she saw suitcases full of millions in cash go through at least once a week. “Time after time after time, it wasn’t a one-time thing.”
The old man has a failing mind and imagines that TSA saw suitcases full of millions in cash and did nothing. The TSA regularly participate in “civil asset forfeiture” of cash carried by travelers of only a few hundred or thousand dollars.
All evidence so far presented indicates a scheme in line with the American dream of extravagant purchases and local spending.
“George Clooney says CBS and ABC should have told Trump ‘go f— yourself” Real classy George??
Professor Turley, please stop referring to the New York Times as part of the “mainstream media”. They are not mainstream. They are idealogues and propagandists. Words matter, and giving them the label of “mainstream” is both incorrect and provides cover for, and lends legitimacy to, their destructive radical leftist agenda, led by the destructive 1619 project.
So George Clooney is French?
re: Cuba and the female black terrorist, (not Nikole Hannah-Jones but Joanne Chesimard), she died a miserable death. Of all the countries to seek protection, she chose ideology over reality, IOW a true communist.
Meanwhile, Cuba is worse than ever, non-existent medical care, spoiled, rotten “food”, where Cubans on the island search through garbage for anything worth eating, drink dirty water with herbs in hopes of some type of medicinal value, and the communist government sponsors food festivals where the only vendors are government agencies. The prices of the food items are beyond the reach of Cubans, and these are sponsored much like Democrats sponsor their “protests” against reality. It is reminiscent of Nancy Pelosi’s shredding President Trumps SOTU speech and also their pathetic kneeling in the halls of Congress while wearing kente cloth stoles.
newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-embarrassment-of-democrats-wearing-kente-cloth-stoles.
It’s hard to decide where the editors and writers of the NY Times should be sent to give them an opportunity to show their (few) readers they walk their talk: Cuba or Somalia. Either one would be an opportunity to suffer hunger, misery and poor health
Predictably, the NY Times has not covered the health and food crisis occurring in Cuba for these past several years.
e.g: “cuba site:nytimes.com”
nada. cero. zilch. hijo de perros que son
We are dying’: Cuba sinks into a health crisis amid medicine shortages and misdiagnosis
Hospitals are overwhelmed and fatalities are soaring. The island is suffering from combined viruses that include dengue, chikungunya, Oropouche and other respiratory diseases
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-14/we-are-dying-cuba-sinks-into-a-health-crisis-amid-medicine-shortages-and-misdiagnosis.html
Year-end holidays in Cuba: plenty in the official discourse, scarcity and poor quality in reality
https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025-12-30-u1-e197721-s27061-nid317579-ferias-fin-ano-cuba-abundancia-discurso-oficial
Beyond their commercial function, these fairs serve a clear role as a political backdrop, especially on symbolic dates such as New Year’s and the anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution. The regime attempts to project an image of management, stability, and social concern, while avoiding addressing the structural causes of the food crisis.
Venezuela is no different from Cuba re: dismal food and non-existent health care, not that the MSM would report any of this.
That’s because cult ideology will not permit to report reality so as to inform readers.
Patria o muerte indeed for ridícula, esclava, payasa Nikole Hannah-Jones from the comfort of her local Starbucks drinking a latte.
Trump should order an invasion of Cuba. Cuba would fall in 24 hours, and America would have a fertile country to build into a terrific tourist destination and phenomenal food products. I’d be happy to lead the charge for the medical corps.
Estovir
Why should America invade Cuba? If Cubans desire freedom from an oppressive government then let them arise and cast it off. It’s not Americas fight.
Conservatives have held an economic blockade of Cuba for more than half a century, Cuba is the way it is because conservative Americans want to suffocate every Cuban to death rather than participate in the free market of ideas and trade. Besides, the US already has an island, Puerto Rico, to treat like garbage and that’s one with American citizens on it.
Hey
Let’s have a social experiment here. If you are sick of George, Svelaz, Anonymous TDS or whatever sock puppet used for the day up vote this post. It would perhaps show the true disgust of being subjected to the obsessive ignorance on every level every day.
Interesting Dirk, I am thinking Stockholm Syndrome….
Congrats to George Clooney and family for being mobile with a home in Italy, France and the UK and being able to get out of the Americas aka the western hemisphere. He wanted his children to grow up naturally.
Good for him
CLOONEYS=ANTISEMITES!! Get out of America GEORGE!! Watched 15 minutes of his last movie- IT STUNK!!
I know Clooney is a leftist, but I generally like him as an actor. If he wants to move away from America, let him. He is wealthy, and it is usually the wealthy Americans who are unsatisfied with America. For the rest of the world, being born in America is having won life’s lottery that only 4% of players win. If you were born an American, be thankful for your good fortune.
DON’T watch him in Jay Kelly!! The movie is terrible- a total waste of time. His part reflects his life–BORING!!
George Clooney says CBS and ABC should have told Trump ‘go f— yourself’—- ANTISEMITE CLOONEY!! TDS infected too.
Yeah, he and wife are antisemites. And I didn’t watch that show you referred to. The one that stands out in my mind is Up in the Air (2009) in which I thought he and Anna Kendrick (had never heard of her before that) were pretty good.
Good before his TDS set in!!!
K, why the slander?
OMFK
No kidding, George Clooney born into Hollywood royalty where he was guaranteed a multimillion dollar income for life. How horrible America is, millions of dollars for playing pretend on film, chasing high quality poontang for most of his adult life, partying with the A list libs and then deciding after supporting all the crap that has led us here that it’s now time to leave. How about GTFO Georgie and take some of the other Hollywood weirdo perverts with you and don’t come back.
Bye
Did you say George Clooney
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xi93V3LJ0E4
Dirk – I generally don’t read George/Svelaz/X, or Gigi’s 1,000,000-word hysterical rants. I often skip over all anonymous posts, especially if they mention Trump in the first sentence, or use insults like “MAGA morons” in the first sentence. They are too stupid to realize that nobody but their fellow commie travelers will actually read their garbage. By posting anonymously, they out themselves as trolls paid by the DNC or Chicoms.
P.S. I would add a like to your comment but that feature doesn’t work on my computer.
OldManFromKS,
Well said!
Yeah, the like comment function does not work for me either.
OMFK & USF
Thank you both!
Every Anonymous response is paid for by Jonathan Turley – about $175 for a short one, more for longer ones.
oldmanfromkansas, john say, and upstate farmer are all from Moscow.
Hey Dirk, that sounds like what a snowflake who wants to retreat to a safe space would ask for.
Don’t you just love how the trump administration loves Law Enforcement?
“A plaque honoring the police who defended the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, riots was meant to go up in 2023, but as 2025 draws to an end, it still has not been, and the Trump administration is now asking a judge to delay a lawsuit forcing them to put it up, according to a post from CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane.”
Rather than hang the plaque they would rather go to court and delay the required action.
Gotta love trump, or he might have you killed.
Then why didn’t BIDEN put it up??? Trump wasn’t the President in 2023 DF! LOSER ANON!!!! DEMS love fraud/crime/violence!!!
“The completed plaque is currently in storage at the Capitol, and its installation is awaiting approval from House Republican leadership. ”
“Then why didn’t BIDEN put it up???”
Because the Capitol is under control of the Legislative branch, not the Executive branch. The Trump administration is involved now because the police have sued and the DoJ, part of the Trump administration, is fighting that suit.
You mean the police who initiated the violence in the first place, were responsible for most of it, and then lied about being injured, and about some of their number being killed, which never happened? Why should they be honored? They should all be fired.
Don’t you just love how the trump administration loves Law Enforcement?
More or less than Obama and Biden when they were supporting and cheering the Democrat street thugs in Black Liars & Marxists assaulting and attempting to kill LEOs, first during their Ferguson and related riots prior to Trump ever running for office? Or Obama and Biden later, during the Democrats’ 2020 Election Season Of Mostly Peaceful Rioting, Pillaging, Looting, Arson And Attempted Murder Of Police Officers?
You got anything meaningful on that from either CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane or yourself?
Gotta love Trump – police don’t have to worry nearly as much anymore with Obama and Biden gone about being killed or wounded by Democrat street terrorists in their Antifa and Black Liars & Marxists gangs.
If anyone wants proof that Trump’s SCOTUS appointees are nothing but political hacks, then consider the following.
In a much-criticized opinion in September, Kavanaugh supported the Trump administration’s campaign of randomly stopping Hispanics on the street in an effort to root out undocumented immigrants.
At the time he wrote, “Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U.S. immigration enforcement for decades,”. He said that “apparent ethnicity” could be a “relevant factor” for demand of proof of citizenship. He also suggested that any questioning is “typically brief” and U.S. citizens and legal residents would “promptly go free.”
That opinion gave rise to what is now called a “Kavanaugh stop”.
Fast forward to a more recent opinion, where he said that, “race and ethnicity could not be ‘considerations’ when officers make immigration stops or arrests”.
So which is it ???
Apparently he is capable of holding diametrically opposite opinions in his head at the same time.
Perhaps he has been spending too much time hitting the beer keg he keeps hidden in his office.
If anyone needs more proof that Democrats are the true fascists in America today, just look at how they attack the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Attacking the Supreme Court is the last resort of those fascists for whom authoritarianism can’t come fast enough. Sieg heil to those Democrat fascist thugs.
To quote the dumbest President in the history of this great country.
“Quiet, Quiet Piggy”
DUMBEST President was a DEM. Biden!!
K this was too easy!
1. My butt is wiped
2. Well SOB they fired him…
3. My son is the smartest person I know
4. The border is secure
5. Little kids like to play with the hair on my legs
6. I was raised in a Puert Rican neighborhood
7. I drove a 18 wheeler
8. I like icecream
9. I was a professor at a law school
10. I went to jail for Mandela
Pick one…
when did Biden say that?
A wise Biden Oval Office House Plant voter has spoken! To quote the President of America who shut down an earlier Democrat apparatchik demanding more than their fair share of attention from those in the audience: “Quiet, Quiet Piggy”
The journalistic abilities of both Democrat propagandists is a sad commentary on how neither of these little Animal Farm piggies never believe they are actually getting their fair share of anything. And a condemnation of the public school system that pronounced them fit to engage in the adult world after high school.
If anyone wants proof that Trump’s SCOTUS appointees are nothing but political hacks, then consider the following.
In a much-criticized opinion in September, Kavanaugh supported the Trump administration’s campaign of randomly stopping Hispanics on the street in an effort to root out undocumented immigrants.
At the time he wrote, “Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U.S. immigration enforcement for decades,”. He said that “apparent ethnicity” could be a “relevant factor” for demand of proof of citizenship.
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You are such a Doofus. It was NOT RANDOM Baby Einstein, as you yourself “copy and pasted” the numerous elements: “apparent ethnicity” COULD BE (of many!) a “relevant factor” (of many!). Go to the doctor and get some meds for your full blown TDS, and then get with the program.🙀🙀🙀
Idiot !!
You are completely missing the point.
In September Kavanaugh said “apparent ethnicity” could be a “relevant factor” for demand of proof of citizenship.”
NOW, he says “race and ethnicity could not be ‘considerations’ when officers make immigration stops or arrests”.
The point is that he has produced two opinions which have diametrically opposite statements.
The issue of “randomness” that you are trying to bring up is IRRELEVANT to the point that Kavanaugh has given diametrically opposite opinions. Kavanaugh said nothing about “randomness” of the stops. He simply said in September that “apparent ethnicity” is a relevant factor to make a stop, and NOW he says the exact opposite, that “race and ethnicity could not be ‘considerations’ when officers make immigration stops or arrests”.
In September Kavanaugh said “apparent ethnicity” could be a “relevant factor” for demand of proof of citizenship.”
That’s been the undisputed law for decades. Nothing to do with Kavanaugh. If he now wants SCOTUS to overturn it, he can try to convince his colleagues.
Every cop stopping every Hispanic person they see to demand proof of citizenship has not been undisputed law until Kavanaugh said it was A-OK to harass anyone the cops want to at any time they want to and, effectively, for as long as they want to. Do the check, let them take a step, do the check again. What will they do? Sue? Cops have qualified immunity, also a right made up by the Supreme Court. Eventually cops will block the doors on supermarkets and hold everyone for as long as a records check takes on each and every person, cummulatively. A 10 minute check on each of 100 shoppers? That last person is detained for over 16 hours just for appearing to be Hispanic. That’s Kavanaugh’s supported opinion.
Maybe Kavanaugh dug out his Constitutional law class notes and read them. That beer haze might have interfered the first time.
Please give us all a rest from your stupid shit.
Yes indeed !!!
I agree.
This stupid shit from Kavanaugh is getting extremely tiresome.
Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor AREN’T political HACKS ANON?? They don’t even know the constitution!!! They sure are DUMB!!!
ANON IS A HACK; and in the DEM CULT!!!
ANON HAS SH.T FOR BRAINS!! ANON =DEM HACK!
He does not drink, moron.
3rd try Trump does not drink
If a person doesn’t doesn’t speak English they’re a non citizen. Pretty simple.
^^^ It’s language in that case, not race nor ethnicity.
If a person doesn’t doesn’t speak English they’re a non citizen. Pretty simple.
And completely wrong. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of US citizens who don’t speak English, and that has been the case ever since the republic was founded.
The term “Kavanaugh stop” was made up by dishonest Democrat activists and is only ever used by them, not by any honest person.
That race and ethnicity may be factors in creating reasonable suspicion, especially in the context of immigration enforcement, has nothing to do with Kavanaugh, it’s LONG-STANDING and FIRMLY ESTABLISHED Supreme Court precedent. I’ve been aware of it for decades, and hardly anyone has ever challenged it.
If Kavanaugh is now casting doubt on it, that’s remarkable and innovative. But until SCOTUS explicitly overturns it it remains the law of the land.
“I’ve been aware of it for decades”
Most would cite the case rather than their opinions.
If anyone wants proof that Trump’s SCOTUS appointees are nothing but political hacks, then consider the following.
You hope to deflect from Democrat racist liars defending Democrat racist terrorist murderers with “political hacks”? Then consider the following: does that Commie Kool-Aid you’re drinking have anything on Obama/Biden political hacks on SCOTUS like the racist DEI Hire justices they carefully chose to put on SCOTUS? The wise racist and misanderous Justice Sotomayor and her racist misanderous sister from another Marxist mother, Justice Questioning Brown-Jackson?
Perhaps you believe you have credibility if, hopefully, we’ve been drinking from the same Commie Kool-Aid you’re attempting to serve here now?