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June 7, 2007

Commentary

This Space is Critical – Please Keep BC Going and Growing

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

These are perilous times. Navigating troubled waters, keeping our bearings, recognizing the dangers and seizing opportunities, as we go about trying to secure peace and improve our communities, is not easy. One indispensable requirement is to have space to examine and discuss social and political issues concretely, in something other than the sound bites of…

These are perilous times. Navigating troubled waters, keeping our bearings, recognizing the dangers and seizing opportunities, as we go about trying to secure peace and improve…

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Commentary

This Space is Critical – Please Keep BC Going and Growing

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

These are perilous times. Navigating troubled waters, keeping our bearings, recognizing the dangers and seizing opportunities, as we go about trying to secure peace and improve our communities, is not easy. One indispensable requirement is to have space to examine and discuss social and political issues concretely, in something other than the sound bites of…

These are perilous times. Navigating troubled waters, keeping our bearings, recognizing the dangers and seizing opportunities, as we go about trying to secure peace and improve…

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Cover Story

Left Margin – Lebanon: A Media Cover-up?

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

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…

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…

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Commentary

Keeping It Real: Terrorism’s Hidden Meaning For Black America

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

In April of 1996, in a published piece entitled, Double Standards I wrote, “The point is simple – America must deal with the root causes of terrorism: racism, injustices, and the suppression of human aspirations throughout the world, including inside the United States itself. Ignoring and accommodating these injustices is in itself an act of…

In April of 1996, in a published piece entitled, Double Standards I wrote, "The point is simple - America must deal with the root causes of…

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Commentary

Represent Our Resistance: Cindy Sheehan and the American Democratization of Silence

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Cindy Sheehan’s “An Open Letter to the Democratic Congress,” May 28, 2007, and her letter of resignation from the anti-war campaign, “Good Riddance Attention Whore,” May 28, 2007 are powerful documents in the tradition of resistance. On the one hand, these letters reveal her personal commitment to the struggle for justice and peace. She is,…

Cindy Sheehan’s “An Open Letter to the Democratic Congress,” May 28, 2007, and her letter of resignation from the anti-war campaign, “Good Riddance Attention Whore,” May…

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Art: Celebration

Art

Art: Celebration

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Color of Law: The Perfect Smokescreen – Illegal Immigrants as the Scapegoat du Jour

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

What’s all this fuss about illegal immigrants? It seems that the xenophobes are back for a command performance. The minutemen, those self-deputized, modern-day fugitive-slave catchers, stand ready at the border to arrest, shoot and kill Mexicans, ostensibly for the good of the nation. Individuals such as cable-TV commentator Lou Dobbs further degrade America’s journalistic standards…

What's all this fuss about illegal immigrants? It seems that the xenophobes are back for a command performance. The minutemen, those self-deputized, modern-day fugitive-slave catchers, stand…

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Commentary

A Jones for Justice: Spanking In Schools – America’s Lust for Abuse and Violence

By Dr. John Calvin Jones, PhD, JD Columnist

Basking in the reflection of the rows of thousands of white headstones at a cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, standing before a crowd of White Supremacists, warmongers, and elite media microphones and cameras, during the Memorial Day observance, G. W. Bush made the following pronouncement. He called all those killed in previous and current American wars…

Basking in the reflection of the rows of thousands of white headstones at a cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, standing before a crowd of White Supremacists, warmongers,…

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Commentary

Single-Payer Healthcare – Part 21: A New Possibility Is Emerging In Atlanta

By Adrienne Maree Brown, ED

It’s almost upon us, the historic first-ever United States Social Forum. Thousands of organizers, activists and radical thinkers will converge upon Atlanta from June 27-July 1 to engage in discussion, party together, play together, and share best practices for movement building in today’s United States. The theme is “If another world is possible, another America…

It's almost upon us, the historic first-ever United States Social Forum. Thousands of organizers, activists and radical thinkers will converge upon Atlanta from June 27-July 1…

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