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Issue: 365

March 4, 2010

Commentary

Modern Systems are Far Reaching, Fragile and Becoming More Dysfunctional

By John Funiciello Columnist

Modern societies have reached a time when just about everything about all systems are not just interrelated, but are intertwined. A problem in one is likely to have an effect on all of the other systems. While this has been true over time, modern societies have reached the state we are in now because the…

Modern societies have reached a time when just about everything about all systems are not just interrelated, but are intertwined. A problem in one is likely…

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Commentary

Mercenaries Circling Haiti – Justice Watch

By Bill Quigley Columnist

On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake devastated country. On their website for the Haiti conference, the trade group IPOA (ironically called the International Peace Operations Association until recently)…

On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and…

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Commentary

White Female Found in 5 Days…167 Days Later, Still No News in Disappearance of Black Female

By Jasmyne Cannick Columnist

Apparently, it seems that in order to get the FBI involved in a missing person’s case you need to be the following: white, female, and from a privileged background. Something that 24-year-old Mitrice Richardson isn’t. When 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing in Poway, California, after she went for a run after school on Thursday and…

Apparently, it seems that in order to get the FBI involved in a missing person’s case you need to be the following: white, female, and from…

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Commentary

Reparations, Holocaust and Genocide

By Dr. Conrad Worrill Columnist

At this current stage of history in the Black Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts to seek clarity on certain ideas that are fundamental to the white supremacy foundation of America. First, there is the idea and concept of the African Holocaust of Enslavement. When…

At this current stage of history in the Black Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts to…

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Guest Commentary

NY Times’ Jerusalem Property Makes It Protagonist In Palestine Conflict

By Ali Abunimah Guest Commentator

A photo from an Israeli mapping website shows the Qatamon house where Ghada Karmi grew up. The original house was only the ground floor. The two upper levels, bought by The New York Times in 1984, were built around the late 1970s. Karmi recalled in a 15 May 2008 interview on Democracy Now! that Erlanger…

A photo from an Israeli mapping website shows the Qatamon house where Ghada Karmi grew up. The original house was only the ground floor. The two…

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