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Issue: 35

March 27, 2003

Commentary

War and the Great White Disinformation Machine

By Dr.Kweli Nzito, PhD Guest Commentator

In the pursuit of national interests abroad, much of white America has been programmed to view policies that aid and abet this process as essential to its survival, regardless of the consequences such policies might have for their (mostly non-white) victims. Such a view, carefully crafted by government propaganda with corporate media complicity, can in…

In the pursuit of national interests abroad, much of white America has been programmed to view policies that aid and abet this process as essential to…

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Guest Commentary

Are Black People Pulling Their Anti-War Weight?

By Donna J. Warren Guest Commentator

There’s been a lot of talk in the progressive community, that is, in the mostly white progressive community, that Black people are not pulling their weight in opposing Bush’s war on Iraq. I hear these thoughts on KPFK radio in Los Angeles. I heard them recently at the Socialist Scholar’s Conference in New York where…

There's been a lot of talk in the progressive community, that is, in the mostly white progressive community, that Black people are not pulling their weight…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Guest Commentary

Operation Putrid Smell

By Rodney D. Coates, PhD Guest Commentator

Cover Story They have reached too far Bush’s road leads to ruin – for himself and his Pirates 3 Guest Commentators 3 Faces of Shock, Awe and Death 1 – Jimmy Mack, When Are You Comin’ Back? – The real price of war – By Jorge Mariscal 2 – Colin Powell: A hawk with smooth…

Cover Story They have reached too far Bush’s road leads to ruin - for himself and his Pirates 3 Guest Commentators 3 Faces of Shock, Awe…

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Commentary

The Issues

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

We begin with an overarching truth: every person harmed by U.S. actions in the Iraqi theater of pre-emptive, unprovoked war represents a crime by the United States against international law and the evolved standards of civilized behavior. The very fact that we are compelled to state such an obvious truth before beginning a communication with…

We begin with an overarching truth: every person harmed by U.S. actions in the Iraqi theater of pre-emptive, unprovoked war represents a crime by the United…

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Commentary

Onward Embedded Soldiers

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The awesome maratelethon has invaded the nation’s households as Manifest Destiny on the march, a political spectacle in which the military are props and the civilian announcers are inspired by the most grotesque delusions of racial triumphalism. “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” the embedded multi-media experience, is neither news nor military propaganda. Rather, it is an imperial…

The awesome maratelethon has invaded the nation's households as Manifest Destiny on the march, a political spectacle in which the military are props and the civilian…

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