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Issue: 324

May 14, 2009

Commentary

My Annual Graduation Message

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Once again, I am sharing my annual graduation speech in hopes that it will help African people in America understand the real meaning of these rites of passage for thousands of our young people who will be participating in commencement exercises affirming their graduation from elementary, middle school, high school, and college in the next…

Once again, I am sharing my annual graduation speech in hopes that it will help African people in America understand the real meaning of these rites…

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Commentary

Inglewood’s Federal Police Dept Watch Dog

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Sometimes it takes an event (or two) to make plain a reality that nobody wants to talk about. Pervasive police abuse and police misconduct are usually activities nobody wants to acknowledge and nobody wants to admit to. Police have a way of trying to convince you that everything they do is legal, even when it…

Sometimes it takes an event (or two) to make plain a reality that nobody wants to talk about. Pervasive police abuse and police misconduct are usually…

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Commentary

The Four Torture Memos- Part 2 – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

[On April 30th, BC published the first part of a three part essay that deals with the torture practiced by the American government. Since then I have been preoccupied with other matters; thus Part 2 was not written until now. Click here to read Part 1.] I recently read the 2009 book by Neal Bascomb…

[On April 30th, BC published the first part of a three part essay that deals with the torture practiced by the American government. Since then I…

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Guest Commentary

On the War, Education, and Women’s Equality in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Dr. John Hayakawa Torok Guest Commentator

Afghanistan’s Taliban under Mullah Omar allegedly harbored Osama bin Laden and his guerilla fighters before the September 11, 2001 attacks. If US mass media representation of US national security discourse is to be believed, then the Taliban (Pashto / Arabic loan word for “students”) is an armed, male supremacist movement that favors immuring Afghan and…

Afghanistan’s Taliban under Mullah Omar allegedly harbored Osama bin Laden and his guerilla fighters before the September 11, 2001 attacks. If US mass media representation of…

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Cover Story

Putting a Smiley Face on the Job Picture Can’t Evade the Growing Tragedy

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Michael T. Darda, chief economist at the research and trading firm MKM Partners, probably summed up last week’s message from Washington best, telling the New York Times, “Less bad is always a prelude to good.” The things one learns. We are being asked to believe that the results of the “stress tests” were “not as…

Michael T. Darda, chief economist at the research and trading firm MKM Partners, probably summed up last week’s message from Washington best, telling the New York…

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The African World

Why No Criminal Actions Against Bush Administration Officials

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

There has been a great deal of both chatter and analysis – on the Internet and in other media – regarding the Obama administration’s seemingly lackluster response to demands that officials from the Bush administration (up to and including the former President himself) be investigated and possibly prosecuted for abuses of authority. There are probably…

There has been a great deal of both chatter and analysis - on the Internet and in other media - regarding the Obama administration’s seemingly lackluster…

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