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Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a former United States Representative and the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States. McKinney served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993–2003 and 2005–2007, first representing Georgia's 11th Congressional District and then Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She is the first African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.[1]

In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in the newly re-created 11th District,[2] and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and renumbered due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v. Johnson,[3][1][4] McKinney was easily elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election, and was re-elected twice without substantive opposition.

McKinney was defeated by Denise Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary, in part due to Republican crossover voting in Georgia's open primary election, which permits anyone from any party to vote in any party primary,[5] and in part due to her "controversial profile, which included a suggestion that [George W.] Bush knew in advance of the September 11 attacks."
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(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 27, 2011
From Cynthia McKinney: On President Obama and Libya; Japan and 9/11 Truth The events are pieced together and give the reader plenty of background on the interests and the empire building of the US government.
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 2, 2009
Ruminations on President Obama's Tenure Thus Far and "Acceptable Punditry" Cynthia McKinney speaks about the same policies in affect now under Obama's rule as they were under the Bush administration and even more on Obama not going to Durban.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 5, 2009
Cynthia McKinney's Report from the FORUM FOR PALESTINE in Malaysia Cynthia McKinney's descriptive report from the FORUM FOR PALESTINE with specific details from the doctors who attended the victims after the Israeli attacks.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 20, 2009
The Economy, From Soros and Greenspan to Napoleon's Waterloo, And a Tip of the Hat to Haiti, Too Cynthia McKinney gives us a history of economics and finance in the New World. She includes history and information, both current and old, from the US, France, the Louisiana Purchase and Haiti.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 7, 2013
Chris Dorner: "The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers." Some of you have written and asked who is Christopher Dorner and why was Mike Ruppert responding so urgently to his words. I will put Dorner's Manifesto here so that you all can read his words for yourself. This is what Mike Ruppert sent to me with a message of URGENT attached to it for my attention and following that will be Dorner's Manifesto:
(20 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Cynthia McKinney and the Spirit of Humanity Crew are captured and detained by the Israel Navy Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman and Green Party Presidential Candidate along with the Free Gaza mission is captured and kidnapped by Israel on the high seas!
(47 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 1, 2009
We Lived to Tell the Story: Lebanon Rescued Us An update from Cynthia McKinney regarding the incident with the Humanitarian Mission to Gaza aboard the "Dignity."
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, June 28, 2009
FREE GAZA and SPIRIT OF HUMANITY are determined to sail Cynthia McKinney, Dignity Action Movement and Free Gaza send out notice of intent to sail to Gaza with humanitarian aid in spite of attempts to stop this mission. Situation is unfolding...
Series: My Poetry (453 Articles, 473695 views), Sonnets (347 Articles, 366166 views)
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 25, 2009
They Denied Us So They Wouldn't Have to Ram Us!--UPDATED Cynthia McKinney's latest updates from the Dignity Action Movement and Free Gaza as they attempt to take a short voyage to Gaza to bring humanitarian aid to the people there.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 18, 2010
An Unwelcome Katrina Redux The TRUTH about Haiti. Cynthia McKinney tells us why Haiti is so important for US empire interests, both financially and logistically. All eyes are upon the US government to see what the next moves will be. They will be telling to be sure.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 28, 2010
"They're White Just Like Us . . . " Dignity, peace, war, occupation, immigration, and the color divide.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 31, 2010
Cynthia McKinney Mourns the Dead of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza: People of U.S. & World Must End Israeli Impunity! I am outraged at Israel's latest criminal act. I mourn with my fellow Free Gaza travelers, the lives that have been lost by Israel's needless, senseless act against unarmed humanitarian activists.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 6, 2011
President Obama Gets His Groove Back By Attacking Africans So did the American people get the change they wanted? Or is this really more of the same under Bush? Imperialism is alive and well under the Obama reign.
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(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Buyer's Remorse, Economic Collapse, Oligarchs, and War Cynthia McKinney tells us about the Power to the People Committee, voters who have some regrets about their choices, and info from MONEY FACTS, 169 questions and answers on money authored by the Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, 1964.
(49 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 30, 2009
President Obama, Don't Become Complicit in Their Crimes! Cynthia McKinney's latest letter to Obama and the injustices of war, killings and imprisonment, not just overseas but here on our streets. Under Obama's administration, the war continues!
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Cynthia McKinney Reports from London Cynthia McKinney tells us about the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) taking place in London, about the continuing conflicts in Israel, Palestine, Gaza and about the U.S. war machine's involvement in the Middle East.
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 3, 2009
Is President Obama's Surge A Trap? US voters went to the polls and chose Obama to lead them. He promised peace, change, bringing the troops home. Who's REALLY in charge? Congress is going to have to stop funding the wars and occupations to bring about their end.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 26, 2009
Mr. President: Give Us a Clean Break from War In a message to President Obama today, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney condemned the actions in Gaza, the US complicity and the lack of action by our leadership.
(19 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 31, 2008
From Cynthia McKinney's Notebook... Cynthia McKinney tells the story of what went down in the East Mediterranean on December 30th, 2008 while on a humanitarian mission aboard the "Dignity."
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thousands Rally and March in Washington, D.C. to 'Let Gaza Live' Cynthia speaks of the events in Washington, DC today and the mainstream media's distortion of the facts.
Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz GOP Debate in South Carolina, February 13., From YouTubeVideos
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Scourge of US elections: Electoral College, hackable voting machines and obscure rules It is difficult to place trust in the US election system when we learn about the number of votes cast that go uncounted. In the 2000 Presidential election between Bush and Gore, between two million and five million Americans went to the polls and voted, yet their votes were thrown out, disqualified for any number of reasons. Half of those uncounted votes were cast by Black Americans.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 4, 2011
Cynthia McKinney: From United Arab Emirates Cynthia tells us about the "greening" of the Middle East, people power and the vision of a new paradigm for all people and the planet!
Homelessness is rampant, From FlickrPhotos
(16 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 26, 2016
America, we have a problem: Homelessness is out of control It's hard to imagine that the country that controls so much nuclear firepower and that drops so many bombs on Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan everyday including today is increasingly unwilling to educate its children and house its citizens. Not one word is uttered about the criminalization of the poor and now the crisis of homelessness that afflicts a growing number of cities on the west coast of the US.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Cynthia McKinney Announces Formation of DIGNITY Cynthia McKinney announces the formation of Dignity, an organization for the people. Cynthia explains why this organization is needed and asks for leaders to step up and help, we are all in this together. There is power in organization with common goals and a vision for the future.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 29, 2009
From Cynthia McKinney in London Cynthia McKinney speaks on the Economic Crisis, George Galloway, and the Forum for Palestine taking place in London on March 31, 2009.
(27 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 29, 2011
Anatomy of a Murder: How NATO Killed Qaddafi Family Members Congress should vote to end NATO's action in Libya and, barring that, should assert its Constitutional prerogatives and require the President to come to it for authorization of this war. And then, Congress should heed the wisdom of the people of our country who are against this war and vote for peace.
Badly Berned, Hillary Clinton Attempts To Go On Offense Now that Bernie Sanders has caught and passed her., From YouTubeVideos
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 24, 2016
A bad month for US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton Despite amassing a fortune in her campaign coffers, the Presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton are beginning to rest on shaky ground. These are only tremors so far, but any one of them could completely remove the earth underneath her once-a-sure-thing campaign. Any out-of-control spiral could leave Hillary standing at the altar all alone.
(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Dispatch From Tripoli--NATO's Feast of Blood The real foreign policy behind the US's mad rush for Empire in Africa!
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 22, 2009
A Message From Mike Ruppert by Cynthia McKinney, October 22, 2009 Cynthia McKinney passes us the message from Michael Ruppert who has gone through hell to get info through to "we the people." Censorship and disenfranchisement of anything having to do with truth is alive and well in the USA.
Uber: Innovator or Business Destroyer?, From YouTubeVideos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 21, 2015
Uber-corruption? New taxi service threatens good-paying US jobs while enriching a few insiders A situation is brewing in cities all across the United States while millions of dollars in profits are on the table and hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake. In the current US neoliberal system, the winners are the few on the inside and the losers are all of the rest of us. This is especially true while the taxi industry undergoes a game-changing transformation.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 2, 2009
How Did We Get From There to Here? The former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate explains the debaucle that is our current healthcare system and the unnecessary death of her aunt under this same system.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 19, 2009
What do we have in common? Cynthia McKinney is on her way to Gaza with food, medicine and school supplies for the children. She encourages all to join DIGNITY'S social networking sites. And asks Obama to not spend one more dime on Israel's war machine.
Wall Street greed, From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 20, 2015
American capitalism: A disaster with no "moral center" Reich points out that American capitalism has today lost its moral center. He laments that even the most minimum standards of "public morality" have been breached by the common business practices of today. Reich complains that the people with the leading Wall Street or corporate positions now can be counted on to enrich themselves with the most compensation "regardless of the social consequences."
Edward Snowden, From FlickrPhotos
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 23, 2016
Edward Snowden's data dump: Where's the beef? I believe Snowden was right to inform us about what the US government is doing with our tax dollars, to its citizens at home and to the rest of the world. In my opinion, the US government is a rogue state and COINTELPRO, Operation Condor, WikiLeaks, and what little we know of the Snowden documents amply demonstrates that.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 28, 2009
President Obama, Let Peltier Live! Cynthia McKinney speaks out for justice regarding political prisoners and the US involvement in global war.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 15, 2016
Shame on Shell: Ecocide by oil extraction in the Niger Delta American voters must not remain willfully blind to the huge crimes being committed by corporations that, at the same time, receive huge U.S. tax breaks. (Yes, Shell Oil receives huge tax breaks from U.S. taxpayers). In a way, these crimes are being committed in the name of every U.S. taxpayer, who, in the end, also bears some responsibility for ending them.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A Peace Lobby on the International Day of Peace It is time for a PEACE LOBBY. And it is way past time for the people to demand it. Those that lead us to war cannot be expected to get us out of it.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 16, 2010
THE MAN WHO PUT THE WORD "FIRE" INTO FIREBRAND--BILLY MCKINNEY A tribute to my father, the Honorable James Edward "Billy" McKinney who passed on July 15th, 2010 at the age of 83.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 11, 2009
If we want Policy instead of Speeches Cynthia speaks of our vision and our goals for an America the way WE want it and covers some of the news topics of the day that either remain out of our mainstream news or are misreported.
President Obama, From FlickrPhotos
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 1, 2016
Time to think of legacy? The Obama Doctrine In the end, it would appear that Obama has been a dutiful puppet, advancing the interests of the scions of neoliberalism at every turn, rather than advancing peace and freedom and human dignity as the world hoped he would do when he was elected.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 22, 2009
I Sent a Message to the President about My Trip to Gaza . . . Cynthia McKinney and the Dignity Action Movement are not getting any US mainstream press recognition outside of the internet, but foreign media has made note of the plans for the newest humanitarian voyage to Gaza. Please pass the word and check out the social networks for DIGNITY!
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 29, 2009
FREE GAZA'S SHIP, The Spirit of Humanity is now surrounded by the Israeli Navy, being threatened and radios jammed! The latest on FREE GAZA'S mission to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The former Congresswoman and Green Presidential Candidate, Cynthia McKinney is aboard in addition to 20 relief and aid workers from 14 different countries. Situation/standoff in the Eastern Meditteranean is tense.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 24, 2009
We Leave for Gaza Tomorrow; I've Asked the White House to Intervene for our Safety Cynthia McKinney gives an update on the preparations for the Dignity Action Movement and the latest trip to Gaza with humanitarian aid.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 7, 2012
Open Letter on the Occasion of the Seating of the New York Session of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Palestine The vast majority of the world's people are utterly tired of a hungry war machine ignited by gangster bankers concomitantly devouring the money resources of the world's people. There is a growing awareness of exactly where the problem lies:
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Remarks at the UN International Meeting on Palestine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia can you even imagine what U.S. policy would be like at the United Nations if the will of the people were carried out without the interference of the pro-Israel Lobby? I have met many courageous Palestinians and Israelis who want to live peacefully with each other and who put their lives and their livelihoods on the line every day for peace and the rule of law.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 2, 2009
Getting to South Africa in time for the Film Festival is as important to me as was putting my feet on the soil of Gaza. Authorities again try to keep Cynthia McKinney from leaving the country. This is becoming a continuing problem. Is security meant to keep US citizens from leaving (and telling the truth somewhere else about what is going on here) or is it meant to keep bad people out?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 1, 2009
On Obama's Impending Speech Cynthia McKinney speaks on Obama's impending speech to escalate the troop number in Afghanistan. Mainstream Media is calling this an "Afghanistan Exit Plan." How can an increase in troops be an exit plan?
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 16, 2009
Report from South Africa, Upcoming Events, Interesting Video Links Cynthia McKinney shares information about her trip to South Africa, her thoughts, observations, a video and her intent to return there to learn more about this nation's people.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Israeli Navy surrounds Gaza relief ship SPIRIT At 1:40 am (local time), the Israeli Navy surrounded the SPIRIT while it is on its way to the Gaza Strip. We got a call from the boat saying that they were being threatened, told to turn back or they would be fired on.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 20, 2009
After a Brief Layover in Abu Dhabi, I've Reached Doha Cynthia McKinney and her Juneteenth letter to Eric Holder regarding justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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