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Issue: 36

April 3, 2003

Commentary

Lieberman’s Black booster – The Issues

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“400 years of slavery is worth 20 points” said one of hundreds of placards in the crowd outside the U.S Supreme Court, in Washington. “Save affirmative action!” Thousands had journeyed from as far away as California to support the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions policies, in what may be the last line of legal…

"400 years of slavery is worth 20 points'' said one of hundreds of placards in the crowd outside the U.S Supreme Court, in Washington. "Save affirmative…

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Commentary

“Skeeza” is as “Skeeza” does – e-MailBox

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Racists act in bizarre ways. Incapable of properly processing information that does not conform to core assumptions of white supremacy, they react, instead, to shared fictions that they propagate among themselves. The racist popular character of the American war against an amorphous, imagined Arab-Muslim “other” is obvious to every sane citizen of the world. (As…

Racists act in bizarre ways. Incapable of properly processing information that does not conform to core assumptions of white supremacy, they react, instead, to shared fictions…

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Guest Commentary

Is the US Funding Haitian “Contras”?

By Kevin Pina Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

Several grassroots political activists from Haiti’s Lavalas movement recently sat in a small room watching television on the first day of the Bush administration’s war against Iraq. For about half an hour they shifted between Canada’s RDI and France’s RFI Caribbean broadcasts in French. The room suddenly broke into excited chatter as images of thousands…

Several grassroots political activists from Haiti's Lavalas movement recently sat in a small room watching television on the first day of the Bush administration's war against…

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Commentary

Racist War and Pirate Plunder

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“The initial data available so far reveals the dirtiness of U.S.-British warmongers, the fakeness of their claims about a clean war, as well as their indifference to the lives of innocent, unarmed Iraqi civilians.” The indictment comes, not from Baghdad or Kuala Lumpur, but from the Foreign Minister of Switzerland. Micheline Calmy Rey, of the…

"The initial data available so far reveals the dirtiness of U.S.-British warmongers, the fakeness of their claims about a clean war, as well as their indifference…

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