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March 27, 2008

Cover Story

Without Empathy or Remorse

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The American Heritage Dictionary defines psychopath as “a person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.” Without empathy or remorse. The word psychopath came to mind when I heard Dick Cheney’s response to Martha Raddatz from ABC News last week on the Iraq war. She…

The American Heritage Dictionary defines psychopath as “a person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.”…

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Commentary

The Iraq Winter Soldier hearings: A Cry in Silence? – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Were it not for Amy Goodman’s program on Pacifica Radio – Democracy Now! – the Winter Soldier hearings at the National Labor College/George Meany Center in Silver Spring, Maryland (March 13-16) would have gone largely ignored. The remarkable testimony of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was disregarded by most of the mainstream media…

Were it not for Amy Goodman's program on Pacifica Radio - Democracy Now! - the Winter Soldier hearings at the National Labor College/George Meany Center in…

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Commentary

Barack Obama: The Empire Strikes Back – Keeping It Real

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Rice clique has so brutalized this nation over the past eight years that, at this point, even a double-talking, Ronald Reagan-praising, pro-Zionist, “unilateral” militarist, colored-imperialist opportunist – in the person of Barack Obama – seems palatable, if not downright appealing, to a significant portion of U.S. citizenry. This is how…

The Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Rice clique has so brutalized this nation over the past eight years that, at this point, even a double-talking, Ronald Reagan-praising,…

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Commentary

Re: “If Obama Can Throw His Pastor Under the Bus, What Will He Do to Us?” – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Did Obama’s speech help him or hurt him? In my opinion it helped him at the expense of throwing his pastor under the bus, feeding into the media’s portrayal of Rev. Wright as a demagogue, and exonerating himself of any culpability of being associated with Wright that makes Obama look like the good guy and…

Did Obama's speech help him or hurt him? In my opinion it helped him at the expense of throwing his pastor under the bus, feeding into…

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Commentary

Progressives for Obama

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Iraq is costing trillions of dollars that should be invested in jobs, universal healthcare, education, housing and public works here at home. Our own Gulf Coast requires the attention and funds now spent on Gulf oil. • Iraq cannot be separated from our energy crisis. Progressives should support Obama’s sixteen-month combat troop withdrawal plan in…

Iraq is costing trillions of dollars that should be invested in jobs, universal healthcare, education, housing and public works here at home. Our own Gulf Coast…

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Commentary

Be or Be Damned: Don’t Give Up Your Lifeline to Fear – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

“Black people, both during and after the slave era, have been compelled to build, creatively and often improvisationally, a family life consistent with the dictates of survival. Yet because the Afro-American family does not reflect the norm, it has repeatedly been defined as pathological in character and has been unjustly blamed for the complex problems…

“Black people, both during and after the slave era, have been compelled to build, creatively and often improvisationally, a family life consistent with the dictates of…

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Commentary

Losing Ground? Recent Trends in Black Higher Education – Along the Color Line

By Dr. Manning Marable, PhD Editorial Board

[“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion, inspired by the great tradition for political event columns written by W. E. B. Du Bois nearly a century ago. Re-prints are permitted by any Black-owned or Black-oriented publications…

[“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion,…

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