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Issue: 146

July 14, 2005

Cover Story

Ten Worst Places to be Black

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The pervasive corporate media bubble, which grossly distorts the views most Americans have of the world beyond their shores, and of life in America’s black one-eighth, operates to fool African Americans, too. While a fortunate few of us are doing very well indeed, and many more are hanging on as best we can, the conditions…

The pervasive corporate media bubble, which grossly distorts the views most Americans have of the world beyond their shores, and of life in America’s black one-eighth,…

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Cartoon: Terrorism

Cartoon

Cartoon: Terrorism

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: British Treated Like Iraqis

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

What if what is a “win” to the terrorist is what is right? Do we refuse to comply simply because the terrorist has acted? It’s a difficult question. In this case, the terrorists, or at least those who have claimed responsibility, have said the bombings are in retaliation for Britain’s role in the occupation of…

What if what is a “win” to the terrorist is what is right? Do we refuse to comply simply because the terrorist has acted? It’s a…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Economic Decline and the Color Line

By Marcellus Andrews

I. The Situation America’s economic decline is taking a peculiar form: the economic foundations of a free and fair society are slowly being destroyed by “normal” economic change under the aegis of a criminally incompetent conservative government. This decline is especially ominous for black America because it destroys the prospects for equal opportunity in American…

I. The Situation America’s economic decline is taking a peculiar form: the economic foundations of a free and fair society are slowly being destroyed by “normal”…

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Guest Commentary

Downing Street Minutes Investigation

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

When nine white men met and plotted at #10 Downing Street in London, England, on July 23, 2002, they probably did not anticipate that three years later a small group of U.S. Congress Members, led by black men and women, would make that meeting a focus of public attention. But when Congress Members John Conyers,…

When nine white men met and plotted at #10 Downing Street in London, England, on July 23, 2002, they probably did not anticipate that three years…

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Guest Commentary

Tragedy or Farce? White Supremacy is Incompatible with Civilization

By Jonathan Scott Guest Commentator

Trapped up in the “white race” corral all the time, most Americans are not only oblivious to what’s happening in the world outside their own segregated block, but also, and for the same reason, prone to seeing everything in monoliths: good and evil; white and black; Arab and Jew; Christian and Muslim; the U.S. and…

Trapped up in the “white race” corral all the time, most Americans are not only oblivious to what’s happening in the world outside their own segregated…

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Commentary

Terror and Civilization

By John Maxwell

This article originally appeared in the Jamaica Observer. My first, horror-struck reaction was to grab the phone. Were any of my children on the trains or on that bus? Two of my three children live in England and although they do not live in London, it was entirely possible that they might have been there…

This article originally appeared in the Jamaica Observer. My first, horror-struck reaction was to grab the phone. Were any of my children on the trains or…

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Guest Commentary

Strange Fruit in Iraq

By Lizz Brown Guest Commentator

Yasser Salihee is dead. He was on his way to drive his family to a swimming pool in western Baghdad when he was struck by a single bullet to head – he died instantly. Some say he was an unintentional casualty of war. Some whisper “the wolves got him.” You see, since May, Dr. Salihee,…

Yasser Salihee is dead. He was on his way to drive his family to a swimming pool in western Baghdad when he was struck by a…

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