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Another example of monopoly looting with no care for the consequences to people or environment. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Nanny, one of the leaders of Jamaica’s legendary slave resistance, features proudly on the island nation’s $500 bill. But with most of their wealth still subject to imperialist looting that leaves little but toxic waste behind, and with neighbouring Cuba to offer a stark contrast in living standards and social cohesion, many Jamaicans would find it hard to agree with the proposition that their freedom struggle has been completed. Depicted on Jamaica’s $500 note is one of the country’s greatest national heroes, an imposing, mystical figure known simply as Nanny, one of the leaders of Jamaica’s legendary Maroons. The Maro...

NOVANEWS Citispotter David Cupples Two nights before a much awaited national show, two carloads of armed men drove into Marley’s Hope Road yard and shot up the place. Whether the CIA was connected to the attack is unclear. But Marley was stirring up the populace with lyrics of resistance and revolution, inciting the people to think breaking from “the system” was a good idea. Forty years ago, on Dec. 3, 1976, Bob Marley was shot in a gangland assassination attempt in the heat of a contentious Jamaican election campaign pitting the United States’ favorite (Edward Seaga) against the incumbent prime minister (Michael Manley). The shooting in Marley’s Kingston home—which also wounded his wife, Rita, and at least two others—occurred 12 days before the schedu...

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Forty years ago, the CIA had its eye on Jamaica—and Bob Marley got shot