Issue: 275
May 1, 2008
Commentary
Zimbabwe’s Elections – Who Are “The Real Revolutionaries”?
Atlanta, Georgia. The failure to release the results of the March 29th polls by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is shocking and disgraceful, especially when one considers all the accusations made by western governments against the Mugabe Administration over the past few years that have been tossed aside as imperialist propaganda. Certainly the Bush Administration should…
Atlanta, Georgia. The failure to release the results of the March 29th polls by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is shocking and disgraceful, especially when one considers…
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Commentary
Zimbabwe: More Than Complicity of Silence
Guest Commentator
Mr. Fletcher says: “We ignored the violent crushing of a rebellion in the early years of the Mugabe administration” but another side would say: “the violent crushing of a ‘violent’ rebellion.” I don’t know any other way to put down a violent rebellion than through violence. I’m assuming here that Mr. Fletcher is referring to…
Mr. Fletcher says: “We ignored the violent crushing of a rebellion in the early years of the Mugabe administration” but another side would say: “the violent…
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Commentary
Mainstream Media Serve Up Garbage As Legitimate News Coverage – Color of Law
Executive Editor
Meanwhile, conservative-turned-liberal commentator Arianna Huffington has criticized the “self-loathing” liberal media for placing “unabashed propagandists” on their payroll, deceptive individuals such as Karl Rove at Newsweek, Tony Snow at CNN, and Bill Kristol at the New York Times. To add insult to injury, one of the debate moderators, George Stephanopoulos, a former advisor to Hillary…
Meanwhile, conservative-turned-liberal commentator Arianna Huffington has criticized the “self-loathing” liberal media for placing “unabashed propagandists” on their payroll, deceptive individuals such as Karl Rove at Newsweek,…
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Commentary
May Day, Cynthia McKinney, and the Rejection of Systemic Collaboration – Keeping it Real
Guest Commentator
A proven and steadfast law of physics is that two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time. So it is that real change is quite incompatible with the Democratic and Republican Parties [i.e. the Republicrats], which are in fact the twin bulwarks of this empire’s systemic terror against the poor and…
A proven and steadfast law of physics is that two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time. So it is that real…
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Commentary
The Powell Memo: Saving American Free Enterprise One Voice at a Time – Represent Our Resistance
Editorial Board
According to the author, what needs saving is business, for it is business that is under attack and if business is under attack, then the entire American free enterprise system is in danger. This is the problem. And just who or what group is the enemy of the free enterprise system? While these “attackers” included…
According to the author, what needs saving is business, for it is business that is under attack and if business is under attack, then the entire…
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Commentary
Moral Hazard: Economists and Policymakers (Liberal and Conservative) Leading Homeowners Down A Blind Financial Alley – Smoke and Mirrors
Columnist
Most experts will agree, we have entered an economic downturn unlike any other since prior to World War II. Housing starts and home sales have plummeted. Bankruptcy filings, unemployment and foreclosures have skyrocketed. When will we turn the corner and get back to normalcy? What you knew as normal will disappear with the final write…
Most experts will agree, we have entered an economic downturn unlike any other since prior to World War II. Housing starts and home sales have plummeted.…
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Commentary
Camden: Poetic Black Fusion
Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)
Camden Camden residents are dying a fast death billed as the worst— living in hell are families, media reports but what’s getting priority, is not priority and the rumors, the rumors of the murder rate— Is it really ten times the national average? kids acquiring illegal weapons and hungry with an appetite for torture sick…
Camden Camden residents are dying a fast death billed as the worst— living in hell are families, media reports but what’s getting priority, is not priority…
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Commentary
The Relative Truth Of This Presidential Election Is “WWWPD” (What Would White People Do?) – Between the Lines
Columnist
Most know (and acknowledge) that Hillary won’t win. Not that she can’t, if she were the nominee, but she won’t be the nominee – not if the Democrats’ nomination process has any integrity, or if the truth becomes the lie. The Democratic Party created the proportional delegate process. Now Clinton wants winner take all or…
Most know (and acknowledge) that Hillary won’t win. Not that she can’t, if she were the nominee, but she won’t be the nominee - not if…
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