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March 15, 2007

Commentary

Think Piece: What If the FBI Hired Someone Honest to Look Into 9-11?

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

It did. Her name was Sibel Edmonds. This is her story, as she told it to me. Edmonds discusses what she knows, whom it implicates, and what she’s been through and what hope there is in the new Congress to start an investigation. (Click here to hear audio of the this interview). Swanson: This is…

It did. Her name was Sibel Edmonds. This is her story, as she told it to me. Edmonds discusses what she knows, whom it implicates, and…

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Guest Commentary

Obama, Clinton and “Bozaunga”

By Minister Dr. Gyasi A. Foluke Guest Commentator

As I listened carefully to two recent campaign speeches by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Selma, Alabama, I experienced a profoundly nauseating feeling that caused me to regress psychologically to an affair several years ago, sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. In this context, former President Bill Clinton was described by one Caucus participant…

As I listened carefully to two recent campaign speeches by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Selma, Alabama, I experienced a profoundly nauseating feeling that caused…

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Guest Commentary

Polarized: Bi-Polar Disorder and the Ghosts That Haunt

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

When you’re black, the odds against you begin rolling before you like an uncontrolled ream of painter’s tape without enough adhesive to stick. Sometimes the naiveté of youth or absorption in pop culture deludes us, or at least extends the expiration date of the blinders of distraction. But for many of us, once you hit…

When you’re black, the odds against you begin rolling before you like an uncontrolled ream of painter’s tape without enough adhesive to stick. Sometimes the naiveté…

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