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November 3, 2005

Cover Story

Dems Join GOP to Muzzle Black Speech

By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble Publishers

Uncle Tom. Sellout. Race traitor. Minstrel. Self-hater. Sambo. African Americans, who have known for centuries that living, breathing, groveling, shuffling characters walk among us who actually match these caricatures, have been put on notice that it is taboo to point out the obvious. One would think white media and politicians would have enough to do,…

Uncle Tom. Sellout. Race traitor. Minstrel. Self-hater. Sambo. African Americans, who have known for centuries that living, breathing, groveling, shuffling characters walk among us who actually…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Bush and the Pirates on Trial

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

The name Lewis “Scooter” Libby was not a household word until very recently. That is how many very powerful people operate, in the shadows, known only to a few. Libby is now very well known. He was chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney until an indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice forced…

The name Lewis “Scooter” Libby was not a household word until very recently. That is how many very powerful people operate, in the shadows, known only…

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Commentary

Post-Katrina New Orleans

By Francis A. Kornegay

The New Orleans hurricane disaster’s impact on, among other things, refocusing attention on America’s racial-class divide could well prove the tipping point that determines the political and economic future of Black and Urban America. At about the time Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on New Orleans from the Mexican Gulf, I became aware of the…

The New Orleans hurricane disaster’s impact on, among other things, refocusing attention on America’s racial-class divide could well prove the tipping point that determines the political…

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Commentary

An Open Letter to the Mayor of New Orleans: Flip the Local Economic Development Script

By Audrey McFarlane

Dear Mayor Ray Nagin, You are in the midst of a daunting task: working to revive a devastated city amidst loss of life, physical destruction and the scattering of your population across the United States. Though the odds of nature, topography and economic reality appear to be against you, the advantage you have is the…

Dear Mayor Ray Nagin, You are in the midst of a daunting task: working to revive a devastated city amidst loss of life, physical destruction and…

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Commentary

Think Piece: The Spiritual Death of a Nation

By Paul Street Guest Commentator

A shortened version of these comments were delivered in a televised lecture to the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 12, 2005. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

A shortened version of these comments were delivered in a televised lecture to the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 12, 2005.…

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Commentary

GAO Report on 2004 Election: Results Could Have Been Flipped

By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

This article originally appeared in FreePress.org. As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling. The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in…

This article originally appeared in FreePress.org. As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor…

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Commentary

Blacks Rated Lower Than Animals

By Jonathan David Farley, D.Phil Columnist

“All head lights and glass smashed, all electrics and air lines, oil lines cut, tires slashed, fuel tanks, oil and transmission tanks contaminated, cab controls smashed up, approx one hundred power cables supplying site electrics were chopped through. Fuse boxes and other bits of electrics smashed, fuel pumps damaged, fuel tanks spilled, all site conveyor…

"All head lights and glass smashed, all electrics and air lines, oil lines cut, tires slashed, fuel tanks, oil and transmission tanks contaminated, cab controls smashed…

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