Cribbing completely from Harry Clarke (with a few corrections in the text): RFK said this in 1968. In a speech I heard today it was quoted and it stirred me. Too much and for too long, we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, [...]
Filed under: News , Politics as Usual Bono and Wyclef Jean will both be honored this month with the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights' Ripple of Hope Award. Presented at the Center's annual dinner on Nov. 18, the organization intends to recognize the bold leadership demonstrated by these honorees in the area of humanitarian issues. "As champions of justice, Bono and Wyclef...
(Ed. old news, but new to me - from 2007) BOBBY KENNEDY’S affair with the screen idol Marilyn Monroe has been documented, but a secret FBI file suggests the late US attorney-general was aware of – and perhaps even a participant in – a plan “to induce” her suicide. The detailed three-page report implicates the Hollywood actor Peter Lawford, Monroe’s psychiatrist,...
In fact, in the same decade, three of the other most charismatic and effective leaders opposed to the US establishment also met violent deaths in suspicious circumstances that were never properly investigated - Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy. In all cases, Noam Chomsky insisted that there was nothing suspicious. Almost certainly, because of the influence he wielded amongst progressive...
From the Times Ledger : The MTA plans to shut down parts of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel the next two Sundays for repair work. Judie Glave, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Department of Bridges and Tunnels, said both lanes of the Manhattan-bound tunnel will be shut down from 1 a.m. Nov. 8 until 5:30 a.m. Nov. 9. Glave said two-way traffic would be permitted in the remaining...
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights today announced that Bono and Wyclef Jean will receive the organization's 2009 Ripple of Hope Award. The award, which will be presented at the Center's annual dinner on November 18th, recognizes the bold leadership demonstrated by the two honorees on humanitarian issues. "As champions of justice, Bono and Wyclef have brought the national...
QUITO, Ecuador--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The massive oil contamination for which Chevron faces a potential $27 billion liability in Ecuador’s courts is a “clear violation” of the rights of indigenous peoples to life, security, and self-determination, said Kerry Kennedy, a human rights advocate and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, in an opinion piece posted on the Huffington Post this...
Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968, said: "Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances [...]
On 5th November 1968, Richard Millhous Nixon won the U.S. presidential election following a turbulent campaign that saw the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy , as well violent protests on the issues of race and the Vietnam war. Nixon, the Republican candidate, received 301 votes from the Electoral College and 43.4% of the popular vote; the Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey,...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not giving up his opposition to Cape Wind any time soon, despite the fact that his oppositional planks have once again been systematically dismantled.
LOS ANGELES — An attorney for the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy said Monday his client was transferred from a prison that houses high-risk offenders to a new facility where his life could be in danger. Attorney William F. Pepper said Sirhan Sirhan opposed the move from the California state prison in Corcoran, which houses high-risk prisoners such as Charles Manson, to Pleasant Valley...
An attorney for the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy says his client, Sirhan Sirhan, was transferred from a prison that houses high-risk offenders to a new facility where his life could be in danger.
"After discussing his hesitation with prison officials at Pleasant Valley, Sirhan Sirhan indicated he wanted to stay at the new facility after all," Hidalgo said. "He can indicate if he feels unsafe at any point and the department will respond appropriately."
Fox News analyst Liz Trotta joked when asked in an interview with Fox host Eric Shawn about Hillary's Robert F Kennedy controversial remark and called for the assassination of both Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama. Trotta who is a former Washington Times editor and three-time Emmy winner clearly wasn't thinking (or was she?) when publicly stating "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion