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Issue: 306

January 8, 2009

Cover Story

Universal Single-Payer Not-For-Profit Health Care For All

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

The statistical warnings of a health care system in meltdown are flooding in from all corners of the country. More than 48 million Americans are without healthcare, and that number is exploding upwards as our shrinking economy sheds the jobs that our health care is supposed to be based on – more than half a…

The statistical warnings of a health care system in meltdown are flooding in from all corners of the country. More than 48 million Americans are without…

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Commentary

Seat Roland Burris – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

Ethics are important in government and if Roland Burris had received his appointment to the U. S. Senate as a result of a discovered deal with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich I would have been the first to reject it. However, we have just gone through an election in which Barack Obama did not really choose…

Ethics are important in government and if Roland Burris had received his appointment to the U. S. Senate as a result of a discovered deal with…

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The African World

Labor Leader to Obama: “We Have Your Back; We Will Not Let You Back Up!”

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The president of the Maryland and DC AFL-CIO, Fred Mason, had an idea. Following the electoral victory of Barack Obama he found himself perplexed by the enthusiastic, yet very unfocused, response of organized labor as to what should happen next. While there was optimism in the air, what was missing was real content. But what…

The president of the Maryland and DC AFL-CIO, Fred Mason, had an idea. Following the electoral victory of Barack Obama he found himself perplexed by the…

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Commentary

Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership

By Dr. Manning Marable Editorial Board

I The historical significance of the election of Illinois Senator Barack Obama as president of the United States was recognized literally by the entire world. For a nation that had, only a half century earlier, refused to enforce the voting rights and constitutional liberties of people of African descent, to elevate a black American as…

I The historical significance of the election of Illinois Senator Barack Obama as president of the United States was recognized literally by the entire world. For…

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Commentary

Shackles: Made in the U.S.A

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

It’s Hamas and it’s the zealous well-armed Israeli military now that see all Palestinian men as Hamas and all the women and children as allied with them. Hamas is the hated people and the hated people are Hamas. The hated people voted for Hamas. Together, they are among the “wretched of the Earth.” They are…

It’s Hamas and it’s the zealous well-armed Israeli military now that see all Palestinian men as Hamas and all the women and children as allied with…

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Commentary

Goodbye Condi

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Of all the outrageous statements coming out of the Bush Administration over the course of its eight year reign, perhaps the most odious came from the Secretary of State. It was the summer of 2006. Israel troops had entered Lebanon to wage war against the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and the Israeli Air Force was raining…

Of all the outrageous statements coming out of the Bush Administration over the course of its eight year reign, perhaps the most odious came from the…

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Commentary

Israelis Attack Boat Carrying Cynthia McKinney – In Struggle Spotlight

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

While the pro-apartheid, Zionist Barack Obama remained deafeningly silent about the intensified Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, one lone Black American heroine risked her life and limb to engage in a peaceful fact-finding mission, attempting also to deliver desperately needed medical supplies to the people of Gaza. That woman is, of course, former U.S.…

While the pro-apartheid, Zionist Barack Obama remained deafeningly silent about the intensified Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, one lone Black American heroine risked her life…

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