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John Conyers in his August report, “The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Cover-ups in the Iraq War”, charges that the level of misconduct by this administration in leading the nation into war rises to the “level of impeachable conduct.” BC thanks all those readers who responded to…

It had been my intention to write on a different topic, but after reading Race is the Tripwire for the Progressive Movement: John Conyers and Impeachment, by Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., I felt compelled to write the following: There has been a bit of a buzz emanating for some time from certain quarters about impeaching…

Note: BlackCommentator columnist Larry Pinkney reacts to his article and those who are attacking Rep. John Conyers in this issue’s Keeping It Real column. On July 23, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern and I met with U.S. Rep. John Conyers about the issue of impeachment. We delivered a petition for impeachment with one million American signatures.…

It really hit me in the 1980s while living in Boston. At that time the southern Irish economy was a complete mess. People were the greatest export from Ireland, and a lot of them were coming to the USA. At the same time, immigration from Haiti and the Dominican Republic was increasing, and into Boston…

“In between panels, I ran into Colin Powell and asked him if we are ever going to get out of Iraq,” Arianna Huffington wrote on July 2006 in a report from the Aspen Ideas Festival. ’We are,’ he told me, ‘but we’re not going to leave behind anything we like because we are in the…

At first glance, it would seem that the sad state of Rap and Hip Hop and media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the Wall Street Journal have very little in common. But there is a thread, which connects these two issues: the media are dominated by a fewer and fewer entities, and a handful of…

Step One. Delay. If there is one word that sums up the way to destroy an African-American city after a disaster, that word is DELAY. If you are in doubt about any of the following steps – just remember to delay and you will probably be doing the right thing. Step Two. When a disaster…

I came of age politically in the middle of the Black Power movement. Within the ranks of organized labor, both the Black Power movement and the Anti-Vietnam War movement had a significant impact through the mid-1970s. Caucuses were being formed to challenge the bureaucratic leaderships of many unions. Wild-cat strikes were taking place in workplaces…

By definition, the word “media” is the plural of the word medium which is, in relevant part, defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as, “An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred.” For purposes of clarification, in this instance, reference to “the US mass media” is including not only corporately controlled newspaper, radio,…

On the morning of May 22, 2007, CNN International (not to be confused with the network’s often horrid domestic service), carried what could only be called a sensational report. While Lebanese Army forces were bombarding the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, the station interviewed veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, who sketched a quite different…