Issue: 18
November 28, 2002
Commentary
Commentary 1 – Bush’s Domestic Enemies List
Guest Commentator
They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes. It’s time for the rest of us to get very worried. The evidence is rolling in, and it is unmistakable: the Bush people are assembling purely political lists of individuals and groups to be targeted during some future crisis, real or manufactured. The list…
They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes. It's time for the rest of us to get very worried. The evidence is rolling…
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Black Democrats Urge Media Counteroffensive
Guest Commentator
“Very shortly, in order to win close races and advance a pro-working families agenda, Democrats and progressives will be forced to spend time and resources engaging the fastest growing segment of potential base voters – African Americans under age 40.” – Cornell Belcher and Donna Brazile No sooner had the polls closed November 5 than…
"Very shortly, in order to win close races and advance a pro-working families agenda, Democrats and progressives will be forced to spend time and resources engaging…
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Commentary
Secret Bomber to Probe Secrets of Bombing
Guest Commentator
The Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld crowd got drunk one night and decided to play a mad joke on the world. The public had demanded, and the U.S. Congress mumbled in assent, that a commission be selected to investigate the whos, hows and whys of September 11, the secrets behind the mad bombings. So they picked the…
The Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld crowd got drunk one night and decided to play a mad joke on the world. The public had demanded, and the U.S.…
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Guest Commentator
It is the journalist’s responsibility to bring bad news, and the political analyst’s job to explore the meaning of events. The Bush Administration, acting as a kind of clearinghouse for thieves, threatens to overload the nation’s dwindling chroniclers of political crime. Writer Cheryl Seal’s kind words for our November 21 essay, “War for Private Profit,”…
It is the journalist's responsibility to bring bad news, and the political analyst's job to explore the meaning of events. The Bush Administration, acting as a…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Editors: The Native American presence in many African America family trees is well known, both through conventional documentation and oral history. Less widely understood are the “Black Indians,” the African-descended people who were joined with the “Five Civilized Tribes” of the southeastern U.S. under a legal status that the U.S. government recognized as slavery –…
Editors: The Native American presence in many African America family trees is well known, both through conventional documentation and oral history. Less widely understood are the…
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Commentary
RE-PRINT – Iraq’s Nuclear Non-Capability
Originally published in www.YellowTimes.org, an online news/opinion publication whose mission is to offer readers unconventional viewpoints from which to observe current events, and to encourage new thinking about the causes and effects of those events. As the war storm against Iraq swirls and gathers momentum, seeded by the efforts of the American and British governments,…
Originally published in www.YellowTimes.org, an online news/opinion publication whose mission is to offer readers unconventional viewpoints from which to observe current events, and to encourage new…
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