Issue: 358
January 14, 2010
Commentary
Kenyans, Somalis Eating Better Because of…Pirates?
Columnist
Kenyans are catching more fish, so they’re eating better and they’re making more money from fishing. So are some Somalis. Some of the poorest people in Africa are benefiting from a situation which has caused much hand-wringing among the developed world – the roving Somali pirates who range freely around the coastal waters of their…
Kenyans are catching more fish, so they’re eating better and they’re making more money from fishing. So are some Somalis. Some of the poorest people in…
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Commentary
Ten Things the US Can and Should Do for Haiti – Justice Watch
Columnist
One. Allow all Haitians in the US to work. The number one source of money for poor people in Haiti is the money sent from family and workers in the US back home. Haitians will continue to help themselves if given a chance. Haitians in the US will continue to help when the world community…
One. Allow all Haitians in the US to work. The number one source of money for poor people in Haiti is the money sent from family…
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Commentary
African-American Presidents Can Be Hazardous to Your Health – The 5th Column
Columnist
The current defeat of health care reform in the United States illustrates why an African-American should never have been elected president. There are fifty million citizens without any American health insurance“myself included—and U. S. President Barack Obama’s solution was to slavishly obey his political adversaries, by pushing a bill that requires Americans to buy health…
The current defeat of health care reform in the United States illustrates why an African-American should never have been elected president. There are fifty million citizens…
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Guest Commentary
Questions the IMF Must Answer
Guest Commentator
The current global economic crisis is not merely a devastating development, writes Nii Akuetteh, but a clear failure of the Washington consensus, neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. Lamenting the recent G20 summit’s tripling of the power of the IMF in spite of the fund’s clear failure to acknowledge its own shortcomings, Akuetteh argues that it is…
The current global economic crisis is not merely a devastating development, writes Nii Akuetteh, but a clear failure of the Washington consensus, neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics.…
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Guest Commentary
Tilting to the White
Guest Commentator
From the stern way that President Obama dismissed the Congressional Black Caucus last month, you’d think the CBC had insisted that every last dollar of job-creation money go to African Americans. And from the way some conservative pundits responded (columnist Michelle Malkin, for instance, called it a “shake down”), you’d think the CBC had demanded…
From the stern way that President Obama dismissed the Congressional Black Caucus last month, you’d think the CBC had insisted that every last dollar of job-creation…
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Guest Commentary
A Few Thoughts on Obama’s One Year Anniversary as President
Guest Commentator
As we approach the one year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration as president, there is a lot of disagreement about his role since he took office. Many progressive and leftist activists and scholars (I use this loosely to include left leaning writers and researchers) have been trying to figure out Obama’s real impact on the…
As we approach the one year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration as president, there is a lot of disagreement about his role since he took office.…
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Guest Commentary
Education and Global Capitalism
Guest Commentator
Something for advocates of public education to keep in mind now is the changed face of the enemy. The oligarchs; Gates, Broad, the Walton Family, the Bush Family, Bloomberg and the CEO’s represented in the Business Roundtable, had a plan for the destruction of the public schools. They were supremely confident they could bring to…
Something for advocates of public education to keep in mind now is the changed face of the enemy. The oligarchs; Gates, Broad, the Walton Family, the…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “Something is wrong with capitalism as it now stands in the United States…” – MLK
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