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Issue: 34

March 20, 2003

Commentary

Bush’s road leads to ruin – for himself and his Pirates

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

We are all assembled, the world’s people, awaiting the Pirates’ lunge at history. The Bush men have made sure we pay rapt attention to their Big Bang, their epochal Event, after which the nature of things will have changed unalterably to their advantage – they think. The Bush men are certain of our collective response,…

We are all assembled, the world's people, awaiting the Pirates' lunge at history. The Bush men have made sure we pay rapt attention to their Big…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The pulsating horror of Shock and Awe is upon us. The Bush men manifest their monstrous act of will, intending to shatter the will of the human species to resist domination by Pirates. As we wrote in our “last pre-Event commentary,” America is well cast for the role of crazed Crusader: “The criminal enterprise on…

The pulsating horror of Shock and Awe is upon us. The Bush men manifest their monstrous act of will, intending to shatter the will of the…

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Commentary

The Issues

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Affirmative action supporters hope to follow up last month’s institutional show of strength with a display of street power, April 1. Organizers of the Civil Rights March to the Supreme Court predict hundreds of thousands will turn out to “demand that the high court uphold affirmative action in the University of Michigan cases.” Students are…

Affirmative action supporters hope to follow up last month's institutional show of strength with a display of street power, April 1. Organizers of the Civil Rights…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Guest Commentary

3 Faces of Shock, Awe and Death

By Anthony Judge Guest Commentator

When I was a nineteen-year-old soldier in South Viet Nam, one of the tunes played most often on Armed Forces radio was “Jimmy Mack” by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Although a great pop classic with pulsing bass and a tight horn section underneath Martha’s fabulous vocal, the content of “Jimmy Mack” was about little…

When I was a nineteen-year-old soldier in South Viet Nam, one of the tunes played most often on Armed Forces radio was "Jimmy Mack" by Martha…

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