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With coup label, Capitol rioters join communist party in plotting against USA, university project says CNN 2/3/2021 By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN © Bettmann Archive/Getty Images From left, Communist Party USA members Benjamin Davis Jr., Eugene Dennis, Gilbert Green, John Williamson and Gus Hall are transported to a jail cell in October 1949. The Capitol rioters have joined a small but notorious cadre in the annals of history: a duo that since the end of World War II has atte...

With coup label, Capitol rioters join communist party in plotting against USA, university project says CNN 2/3/2021 By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN © Bettmann Archive/Getty Images From left, Communist Party USA members Benjamin Davis Jr., Eugene Dennis, Gilbert Green, John Williamson and Gus Hall are transported to a jail cell in October 1949. The Capitol rioters have joined a small but notorious cadre in the annals of history: a duo that since the end of World War II has atte...

This Week in History: June 26-July 2, 2017 for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.” Machiavelli June 26 1721 – Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Massachusetts gives the first untested smallpox inoculation in America to his own son. 1797 – Charles Newbold patents the first cast-iron plow. He can’t sell it to farmers because they fear the effects of iron on soil. 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the U.S. 1900 – U.S. Army physician Dr. W...

I Have a Dream and 99 Other Groundbreaking 20th Century Speeches  By Isabel Sepulveda, Stacker News On 1/31/21 at 11:00 AM EST The 20th century was one of the most varied, hopeful, and tumultuous in world history. From the Gilded Age to the beginning of the Internet Age—with plenty of stops along the way—it was a century punctuated by conflicts including two World Wars, the Cold War, the War in Vietnam, and the development of nuclear warfare. At the same time, the 20th century was chara...

Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101 Bernstein worked on the screenplays for dozens of films, including Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine), That Kind of Woman (1959, with Sophia Loren), The Wonderful Country (1959, with Robert Mitchum), A Breath of Scandal (1960), The Magnificent Seven (1960), Miss Evers’ Boys (1997, about the infamous “Tuskegee Study”). Screenwriter/producer Walter Bernstein (right) following a June 7...

By Brian Williams February 1, 2021 Federal prosecutors, aided by bosses, liberal political groups and tech moguls, are aggressively pursuing charges — including seditious conspiracy — against a small group of individuals who pushed their way into the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 during a much larger protest outside against the certification of the 2020 presidential election. The U.S. law on the books defines conspiring to commit sedition as plottin...

More terrorism laws would only help to perpetuate the harm to democracy that the Capitol mob tried to inflict.

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Communists like my uncle were sent to prison because they fought for democracy January 15, 2021 12:39 PM CDT By Roberta Wood LeRoy Wood, left, being led away by federal agents after his Smith Act conviction for conspiring to teach or advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government...

The 1954 Attack On The Capitol And The Woman Who Led It By Marina Manoukian/Jan. 10, 2021 9:22 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 15, 2021 4:50 pm EDT In the middle of the 20th century, one woman became the face of the movement for Puerto Rican self-determination. Her name was Lolita Lebrón, and in an effort to draw the worlds attention to Puerto Ricos colonial subjugation by the United States, she and a handful of men opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives. After the United States Capitol was ...

It would be a political crisis if the President were prosecuted, but US law makes it a crime to attempt to overthrow the government or encourage others to do so.