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American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday in Caracas. Some in the group attended Chavez's television and radio broadcast Sunday. "No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds,...

NOTHING BRINGS OUT RACIST slurs like an ambitious black man who doesn't know his ''place." So when Maryland's lieutenant governor, Michael Steele, announced his candidacy for the US Senate recently, the bigots reared up. On one popular website, The News Blog, Steele's picture was grotesquely doctored, making him look like a minstrel-show caricature. ''I's Simple Sambo and I's Running for the Big House," read the insulting headline accompanying the picture. This wasn't some white supremacist slime from the right-wing fringe. The News Blog is a liberal site, and the reason for its racist attack on Steele, a former chairman of...

Teach the Fundamentals September 23, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence via Windows Media Player (highly recommended by poster) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got an e-mail last night, and I get a few of these but there's so much e-mail, I don't have a systemized response. But something about this e-mail I got yesterday compelled me to reply. It was an e-mail for a college student out in Oregon, and he had been given an assignment by his liberal professor. It's a big essay question related to a theory in some journalist's book, and he...

Atlanta (CNSNews.com) - Celebrity activist Harry Belafonte referred to prominent African-American officials in the Bush administration as "black tyrants" at a weekend march, and he also compared the administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. Belafonte, a featured speaker at Saturday's march in Atlanta commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, previously ignited a political controversy in 2002 when he likened then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "house slave." At Saturday's civil rights march, Belafonte said the Bush administration has been "rather dismal" for the lives of black Americans. The march, which featured prominent civil...

Redford: Tyranny's useful idiot Posted: January 29, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Cuban dictator Fidel Castro wooed Robert Redford in Havana this week. It was hardly necessary. Redford has been doing Castro's bidding for years without being seduced by the tyrant of the Caribbean. "He came to me," Redford told Reuters. "He seemed to be in good health, good humor, good spirit." Castro wanted to congratulate Redford on his new film, "The Motorcycle Diaries," lionizing his old comrade-in-arms, Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara. "I came to present the film that I produced on Che Guevara and I am very...

DUVALL,SI -- SPIELBERG NO! By Don Feder . There aren’t many people in Hollywood with the guts to take on a heavyweight like Steven Spielberg. That makes Robert Duvall part of an elite – showbiz types with courage and a conscience. In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, the man who played Lt. Col. Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now” gave the director of “Saving Pvt. Ryan” a little verbal napalm in the morning. Commenting on Spielberg’s 2002 trip to Cuba, Duvall innocently remarked: “Now I want to ask him (Spielberg) – and I know he’s going to get pissed off –...

POLICY AGAINST CUBA IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY An exclusive interview with Harry Belafonte By Sandra Levinson Cubanow.- What kind of commitment does it take to still be here, supporting Cuba, after all these years? I don't see it as a supreme effort, it's a way of life: if you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind, I don't know if you have any other choice than to be there for as long as it takes. But, what I...

Event Name: Harry Belafonte and Friends Time: 8 p.m. Venue: Atlanta Civic Center View Map/Directions Neighborhood: Midtown Atlanta Cost: $24-$100 Information: 404-881-8885 Tickets: 404-817-8700 Web Site: www.atlantaopera.org An Atlanta Opera benefit.

Sunday, September 21, 2003Poor urged to go to polls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Belafonte sings praises of voting By Dan Klepal The Cincinnati Enquirer Harry Belafonte's voice helped him become a pop singing icon and a movie star. On Saturday, the 76-year-old actor, crooner and political activist used his still-strong and silky voice at First Lutheran Church in Over-the-Rhine to urge people to empower themselves by voting. Belafonte was the main speaker at a workshop to teach people about public policy, register them to vote and help them with community organizing. It is the first of a series of workshops that will be...

OSSINING, N.Y. (AP)--Pete Seeger was in New York City's Union Square in 1953 along with 5,000 other supporters of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as the hour of the couple's execution drew near. ``We were waiting and hoping Eisenhower would give a last-minute reprieve,'' says Seeger, now 84. ``We learned that wouldn't happen, and then a great sigh, a great wail went up from the crowd when the time came and we knew they'd been executed.'' On the 50th anniversary of the execution Thursday, Seeger, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte and other show business activists will appear at a benefit for the...

Vargas Llosa on Friday took a swipe at the Colombian Nobel Literature Prize winner and longtime friend of the Cuban leader, calling him "a writer who is a courtesan of Fidel Castro, whom the dictatorship holds up as an intellectual alibi." "And he so far has come to accept very well all the abuses, the trampling of human rights that the Cuban dictatorship has committed, saying that secretly he helps some political prisoners get released," the Peruvian-born Vargas Llosa told Caracol radio. "It is no secret to anyone that Fidel Castro hands over some political prisoners to his courtesans once...

<p>HAVANA — Singer Harry Belafonte, who recently called Secretary of State Colin L. Powell a "house slave," has joined actor Danny Glover and more than 160 artists and intellectuals to defend Fidel Castro's government against criticism over its recent crackdown on dissent.</p>

In the wake of the execution without trial of three hijackers and the sentencing of 75 Cuban dissidents to long prison terms, more than 160 so-called intellectuals from around the world, including two Nobel Prize winners, have signed a declaration defending Fidel Castro's brutal regime. Among the "intellectuals" signing the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World," a vicious attack on their own country, were two Hollywood has-beens: Democrat house slave and washed-up calypso singer Harry Belafonte, who has a far higher opinion of the Cuban tyrant than of Colin Powell and Condi Rice, and former movie star Danny...

In the wake of the execution without trial of three hijackers and the sentencing of 75 Cuban dissidents to long prison terms, more that 160 so-called intellectuals from around the world, including two Nobel Prize winners, have signed a declaration defending Fidel Castro's brutal regime. Among the "intellectuals" signing the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World," a vicious attack on their own country, were two Hollywood has-beens: Democrat house slave and washed-up calypso singer Harry Belafonte, who has a far higher opinion of the Cuban tyrant than of Colin Powell and Condi Rice, and former movie star...

We hear so much about young Americans -- teenagers and early 20s -- who give Americans a bad name. Then we watch our young GIs and our chest swells with pride.

Actor/Director Tim Robbins hates free speech. So does his long-term partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as Janeane Garafolo, Martin Sheen, The Dixie Chicks, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Danny Glover, Chrissie Hynde, and other ''anti-war'' celebrities. They only love free speech when they are using it to bash the military, President Bush, and America, both in our own media and overseas. However, when the American consumer, offended by their blame-America first rhetoric, reacts with petitions and boycotts, the words ''blacklist,'' ''undermining free speech'' and ''suppressing dissent'' are used by these celebrities. Hollywood is scared, because...

Cuba’s REAL Rebels – and DuncesHumberto FontovaSaturday, Feb. 15, 2003Mayor Ed Koch’s recent article jolted me from my seat. It reminded me that Kurt Waldheim was persona non grata in the U.S. because he’d been a Nazi functionary in the Balkans and either participated in or "had knowledge of" Nazi executions of partisans. Actually, that’s fine with me. Even before those revelations, Waldheim always struck me as a sleazy liar, an obfuscator and a rat. No wonder he rose so high so fast at the U.N. He was the perfect U.N. secretary-general. But let me get this straight: "Having knowledge"...

When I set out to learn something about Harry Belafonte's condemnation of Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, I began by googling Belafonte Powell Rice, had no trouble finding the original text, part of a radio interview in San Diego in October of last year. Before the election, you see. A quite strange outburst, it seemed to me, Belafonte referring to those eminences as house slaves. Grotesque. How similar his language to that of Amiri Baraka, once the poet laureate of the entire State of New Jersey but now, evidently, his domain emeritus has been reduced to the City of Newark...

More and more celebrities using fame to back causes 12/26/2002 Associated Press NEW YORK - From the moment Sean Penn arrived in Baghdad, eager to advance the cause of peace, he was doomed - a dead man talking. He was a celebrity, like so many other celebrities who have waded into the treacherous waters of politics or international relations. So he walked gingerly - he was there, he said, "to learn and not to teach." He avoided reporters. And he was careful not to say or do anything that would cause a meltdown at home. So the Iraqis did...

I was totally enthralled with the performance of Barbra Streisand in the 1973 movie, "The Way We Were." Before that her '68 performance in "Funny Girl" was classic. But her performance lately on the political stage has not been one of her best roles. She's been a real disappointment. Julia Roberts was everybody's "sweetheart" in Steel Magnolias, and after that I didn't want to miss a single movie. But when she entered the political arena saying, "Bush is not my candidate . . . the word 'Republican' in the dictionary comes between 'reptile and repugnant,'" my respect for her acting...