Issue: 355
December 17, 2009
Commentary
Chasing the O’s – The US War Strategy in Iran and Afghanistan
Editorial Board
It seems ironic that our Nobel Peace Prize President would increase war efforts in Afghanistan. In a minute, the United States will have two full-fledged wars going on with a back-drop of a near-Great Depression economy. And if the US policy in Iraq to the public was unclear, the Afghanistan mission has topped it. Many…
It seems ironic that our Nobel Peace Prize President would increase war efforts in Afghanistan. In a minute, the United States will have two full-fledged wars…
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Commentary
2010: The Year of the Serf Rebellion – The Premise for a Call to Action – Leftward Ho!
Publisher
[This is the first column by the BC Publisher. It is his best intention to write on a regular basis. This column is the beginning of the development of a plan of action to advance economic justice, social justice and peace.] Malcolm X believed it is important to remain angry, militant and impatient. It’s from…
[This is the first column by the BC Publisher. It is his best intention to write on a regular basis. This column is the beginning of…
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The African World
Speech to United Nations on Palestinian Rights
Editorial Board
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON THE EXERCISE OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Trusteeship Council Chamber United Nations New York, New York November 30, 2009 Remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. BlackCommentator.com & U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Mr. Chairman, Mr. Secretary-General, Mr.…
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON THE EXERCISE OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Trusteeship Council…
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Commentary
America!—Apologize to Rev. Jeremiah Wright!
Editorial Board
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in…
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the…
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Commentary
Obama’s Nobel Speech Comes Up Short
Editorial Board
Pardon me if I can’t join in the fawning praise for President Obama’s Nobel address. “It was, as ever, a bravura performance,” one newspaper said editorially. That it was, but I can’t agree with those, including some people with whom I’m usually in agreement, that it was a “good” speech. It wasn’t good at all.…
Pardon me if I can’t join in the fawning praise for President Obama’s Nobel address. “It was, as ever, a bravura performance,” one newspaper said editorially.…
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Commentary
The Right’s Bogus War on Christmas
Editorial Board
What’s in a greeting? With Ramadan, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and Christmas all going on this time of year, one would think that an all-inclusive seasonal greeting emblematic of our nation’s religious diversity would be embraced by us all with two simple words — Happy Holidays! However, the season’s greeting is the ongoing chapter in…
What's in a greeting? With Ramadan, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and Christmas all going on this time of year, one would think that an all-inclusive seasonal…
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Commentary
Obama’s Afghan Military Escalation Reinforces Terrorism—Not the Opposite
Editorial Board
The terrorism of the U.S. military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq breeds only the further terrorism of revenge. Barack Obama’s military escalation in Afghanistan, ensures not deters, “terrorism;” and notwithstanding his lofty rhetoric he knows this full well. It does not take a scientific genius to grasp the fact that military occupation of a sovereign…
The terrorism of the U.S. military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq breeds only the further terrorism of revenge. Barack Obama’s military escalation in Afghanistan, ensures not…
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Commentary
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech – African American Leadership
Editorial Board
As one of the first to defend President’s Obama’s selection for the Nobel Peace Prize, I also believe that his speech was much more than an adequate expression of the contradictions in which he found himself by being selected. The first contradiction was created by the fact that Obama was selected by the Nobel Committee…
As one of the first to defend President’s Obama’s selection for the Nobel Peace Prize, I also believe that his speech was much more than an…
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