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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."
(from wikipedia)
(6 comments) SHARE 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:
(2 comments) SHARE 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 (463 Articles, 487377 views), Sonnets (353 Articles, 373850 views)
(5 comments) SHARE 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 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.
(5 comments) SHARE 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.
(16 comments) SHARE 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 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 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 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 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 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."
(12 comments) SHARE 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 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!
(16 comments) SHARE 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 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 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 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.
(7 comments) SHARE 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.
(5 comments) SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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 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 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.
(5 comments) SHARE 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.
(6 comments) SHARE 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."
(12 comments) SHARE 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 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 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.
(5 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE 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!
(7 comments) SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE 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 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.