The White House correspondent for Yahoo News wrote what seems at first to be a review of citizen journalist Andy Ngo’s new book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. But a closer read reveals the author’s disdain for conservatives and embrace of the violent left-wing group that has wreaked destruction in cities across America since last Spring. Alexander Nazaryan is the White House correspondent for Yahoo News and the author of his own book slamming former President Donald Trump and his followers, The Best People: Trump’s Cabinet and the Siege on Washington . His “review” of Ngo’s book was published in the Los Angeles Times . Nazaryan tries to discredit Ngo, who spent many months on the ground in Portland, Oregon, and other U.S. cities documenting the violent riots that took place almost nightly, which included looting, attacking police, and repeated assaults on a federal courthouse that regularly involved members of Antifa. As Breitbart News reported , Ngo meticulously reported on the riots he covered on social media, including Antifa’s recent plan to hold nationwide protests on the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as president. #Antifa are continuing to put out the call for riots throughout the U.S. on 20 Jan. These are some of their flyers for Seattle, northern California & Denver. pic.twitter.com/jcoYYHg7a6 — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) January 18, 2021 But Nazaryan, while insulting Ngo, defends Antifa by citing a so-called Antifa scholar, Mark Bray, who wrote in the Washington Post that the movement is “not an organization. Rather, it is a politics of revolutionary opposition to the far right.” Nazaryan connected Ngo’s reporting and book to the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol even if it was printed well before that event: Ngo’s false-equivalence manifesto comes while fencing remains in place on Capitol Hill, all because the Proud Boys of the aforementioned November lovefest decided to return on ...
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The ‘Black Messiah’s’ throughline to George Floyd
Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor of history. He is the author of several books, most recently, " The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. " The views expressed here are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN) A new film, " Judas and the Black Messiah ," written and directed by Shaka King and produced by "Black Panther" auteur Ryan Coogler, tells a crucial chapter in the life of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton: His meteoric rise and brutal killing in the late 1960s. Peniel Joseph As much as the film -- starting with its dazzling opening montage of the long, hot summers of racial uprisings before and after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination -- seeks to open up access to history, it also immerses the viewer in an American landscape that looks, in many unsettling ways, strikingly familiar to our own moment. Daniel Kaluuya plays Hampton as effortlessly charismatic, brilliant and passionate. "Judas and the Black Messiah" springs to life whenever the film centers on Hampton's energetic mind, big heart and deft negotiating skills. Hampton, also depicted briefly on screen last year in " The Trial of the Chicago 7 ," was born and raised in the Chicago area and became a legendary Black activist there in the 1960s, a leader in the Black Panther Party of Illinois. During the Chicago 7 trial stemming from police violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Hampton was killed at age 21, shot in his own home during a raid by Chicago police and Cook County State's Attorney officers. The Chicago 7 trial feels very real in 2020 As deputy chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, Hampton's ability to ...
Former Illinois State Sen. Martin Sandoval, Caught In Federal Corruption Probe, Dies Of COVID-19
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — Former Illinois State Sen. Martin Sandoval, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to bribery charges and was cooperating with federal investigators in a wide-ranging corruption probe, has died of COVID-19. Attorney Dylan Smith confirmed the death based on his conversations with Sandoval’s family. RELATED: Republicans Mock Illinois House Democrats: Meet The New Rules, Same As Old Ones “I was proud to have represented Martin Sandoval,” Smith said. “He was someone of considerable ability who had done a great deal of good in his life and someone who was working very hard to make amends for his mistakes and, in his own way, doing what he could through his cooperation with the government to contribute to their efforts to clean up things in Springfield. “And I know he was sincerely remorseful for having strayed from his own standards,” Smith said. Sandoval resigned from the Illinois Senate in January, just days before he pleaded guilty to agreeing to act as a “protector” for red light camera company SafeSpeed in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes, and was cooperating with federal prosecutors in a sweeping corruption probe of SafeSpeed, ComEd, and others. SafeSpeed itself has not been charged with any wrongdoing, and the company has said it had any crimes committed by anyone with an interest in the firm was done without its knowledge or authorization. Former SafeSpeed co-owner Omar Maani has been charged with bribery , but is cooperating with federal prosecutors and wore a wire for the FBI as part of the probe. A SafeSpeed spokesperson said the company “has acknowledged, with regret, that several individuals with past associations with the company have been named as part of ongoing federal investigations. However, we have also stated repeatedly that SafeSpeed had no knowledge of their criminal conduct, did not authorize it and does not condone it.” “We have severed ties with those individuals and we applaud the ...
George Shultz’s critical lessons for today’s America
David A. Andelman, a contributor to CNN, twice winner of the Deadline Club Award, and executive director of The Red Lines Project, is the author of "A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, and the History of Wars That Might Still Happen" and host of its Evergreen podcast. He formerly was a correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News in Europe and Asia. Follow him on Twitter @DavidAndelman. The views expressed in this commentary belong solely to the author. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN) George Shultz was a diplomat's diplomat. But he was also much more: an economist, global business executive, a man of vision who had a sense of the long game that is so sadly absent among too many of those who lately have been guiding America's fortunes in the world. Before taking over leadership of American diplomacy, he'd already served as secretary of Labor, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and secretary of the Treasury. David Andelman It was his prescience and his almost instant ability to size up an individual and divine an opportunity that led him to an early and most fortuitous embrace of the new, young leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, as an agent of change. America, Shultz believed, should welcome the young Russian apparatchik virtually from the moment he took over in March 1985, halfway through Shultz's service as secretary of state. Then-President Ronald Reagan, who tapped Shultz for the State Department, had come into office with the clear intention of bringing communism to an end in the Soviet Union, as his principal National Security Council advisor on Soviet affairs, Harvard professor Richard Pipes told me without hesitation on the evening before the inauguration in January 1981. But most of Reagan's early counselors, ranging from Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger to his first Secretary of State Alexander Haig, were hardliners who trusted no Soviet leader. Read More When George Shultz arrived at the State ...
New York City Vaccination Hubs Reopen After Storm; More Groups Now Eligible
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Big Apple’s vaccine wars continue. On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his decision to expand the pool of those eligible. But as Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi became the latest to contract COVID-19, questions have arisen about why city officials, including hizzoner, have yet to get vaccinated, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.RELATED: Commack Fire Department Sends Truck, Gear To Rural Tennessee Fire Crew In Need Of Lifesaving Equipment MORE: Gov. Cuomo Does Dramatic About-Face, Now Says Restaurant Workers Are Eligible To Get Vaccinated It’s official — if you work in a restaurant, drive a cab or are developmentally disabled you can now join the pool of millions competing for the city’s ever scarce slots for shots. WATCH: Mayor De Blasio’s Daily COVID Briefing The mayor is especially keen on protecting food service workers with indoor dining resuming on Valentine’s Day. “Indoor dining, obviously, involves people taking off their masks, eating, drinking, talking, laughing,” de Blasio said. “So we have to recognize there’s a vulnerability there and a potential for more spread of the disease that affects all of us.” COVID VACCINE New York State book online here or call 1-833-NYS-4-VAX New York City book online here or call 877-VAX-4NYC Nassau County more info here Suffolk County more info here Westchester County more info here New Jersey book online here or call 1-855-568-0545 Connecticut book online here The mayor’s defense of allowing potentially younger workers to compete with those over 65 took on an unusual twist with the disclosure that Chokshi has tested positive for COVID. He has not been vaccinated and neither has the mayor. “I want to make sure that every dose possible goes to our seniors and to our first responders and all the folks we depend on,” de Blasio said. De Blasio ...
