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Dylann Roof’s White Supremacist Views, Links to Hate Group Revealed After Charleston Church Massacre

Dylann Roof’s White Supremacist Views, Links to Hate Group Revealed...
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http://democracynow.org - Church bells tolled Sunday and hundreds filled the church’s pews of the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first service since Dylann Roof’s attack on a Bible session in its basement last Wednesday. An estimated 20,000 people formed a Bridge to Peace unity chain on the Ravenel Bridge to show solidarity with his victims. A website discovered Saturday called "The Last Rhodesian" shows photographs of Roof at Confederate heritage sites and hosts a 2,500-word manifesto he is believed to have written that explains why he chose to carry out his mass murder spree. "Roof might have been a high school dropout, but he was an excellent student, it seems, of the white supremacist world," says Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is co-author of an editorial published today in The New York Times titled "White Supremacists Without Borders."

Marvel Wins Supreme Court Victory Over Spider-Man Toy
Marvel Wins Supreme Court Victory Over Spider-Man Toy
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Supreme Court affirmed a decision that lets Marvel Enterprises out of a deal to pay royalties to Stephen Kimble, the inventor of a Spider-Man toy called the Web Blaster.
Kimble patented his idea for the toy letting users mimic Spider-Man's web-shooting abilities in 1990. In today's ruling, Justice Elena Kagan says that the old precedent must stand under what's known as stare decisis. In her analysis, Kagan says that very strong justification is needed to depart from stare decisis and allow inventors to make deals that provide them royalties past a patent's expiration. Otherwise, she says that a "whole web of precedents" would be threatened. She even quotes the Spider-Man comics by saying, "In this world, with great power there must also come great responsibility."

Exclusive: Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President on Democracy Now!
Exclusive: Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for Pr...
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http://democracynow.org - In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Dr. Jill Stein officially launches her campaign as a Green Party candidate for the 2016 presidential race. "I have a people-powered campaign," Stein notes. "I am running with the only national party that does not take corporate funding." Stein, a physician and activist who first ran in 2012, outlines her platform. She joins the fray as the race for the Democratic Party nomination heats up. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, has emerged as Hillary Clinton’s main rival for the party’s nomination, as his poll ratings have surged in recent weeks. "Hillary is the Wal-Mart candidate. She has been a member of the Wal-Mart board. On jobs, on trade, on healthcare, on banks, on foreign policy, it is hard to find where we are similar."

"A Classic Case of Terrorism": Is FBI Ignoring White Violence by Refusing to Call Roof a Terrorist?
"A Classic Case of Terrorism": Is FBI Ignoring White Violence by Re...
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http://democracynow.org - Civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray and Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, discuss whether the shooting in Charleston was an act of domestic terrorism. "Dylann Roof was a human drone, and every Tuesday morning the Obama administration uses drones to kill people whose names we don’t even know and can’t pronounce," Kevin Alexander Gray says. "So I don’t know if I feel comfortable with the idea of expanding this word 'terror.'" But Richard Cohen calls the shooting "a classic case of terrorism." "It’s politically motivated violence by a non-state actor and carried out with the intention of intimidating more persons than those who were the immediate victims," Cohen says. "I think in some ways it’s important to talk about terrorism in that way, not so we can send out drones, not so we can deny people their due process rights, but so we can understand the true dimensions of what we’re facing."

"That Flag Represents White Supremacy": Confederate Flag Still Flies at South Carolina State Capitol
"That Flag Represents White Supremacy": Confederate Flag Still Flie...
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http://democracynow.org - Wednesday’s massacre of nine African-American churchgoers by white supremacist suspect Dylann Roof have reignited protests over the Confederate flag, which still flies on the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol. In photos posted online, Roof is seen posing with the flag and in front of a car with a front license plate that reads, "Confederate States of America." "People’s tax dollars ought not go into supporting the idea of the Confederate States of America," says Kevin Alexander Gray, a South Carolina civil rights activist and community organizer who edited the book "Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence." As former president of the state ACLU, he argued, "the flag flying on the statehouse dome was compelled speech. You were compelling people to support an ideology of white supremacy."

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