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Issue: 39

April 24, 2003

Commentary

The Great Unraveling of U.S. Global Power

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Centuries of lording it over slaves, butchering Indians, and pushing aside Mexicans have ill-prepared white America to live in civilized company, much less to act as maestro for the globe. As Johnny Cochran could tell them, those gloves don’t fit. Easy victories over weak, captive or Stone Age adversaries served to teach all the wrong…

Centuries of lording it over slaves, butchering Indians, and pushing aside Mexicans have ill-prepared white America to live in civilized company, much less to act as…

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Guest Commentary

When Major Powers Stage a Coup

By Randall Robinson Guest Commentator

A bloodless coup, led by the world’s richest and most powerful nations, is taking place in Haiti. For two years now, the world’s wealthiest nations and the Bretton Woods institutions they control have maintained a crushing international financial embargo on eight million Haitians. They have done this “to protest an electoral dispute stemming from Haiti’s…

A bloodless coup, led by the world's richest and most powerful nations, is taking place in Haiti. For two years now, the world's wealthiest nations and…

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Commentary

Prison data is understated – e-MailBox

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

An emotion-laden batch of mail arrived in response to “The 2 million-person Gulag,” our April 10 treatment of news that the U.S. prison and jail population had reached “another numerical benchmark in its unique saga of racial oppression.” African Americans comprise about half of U.S. inmates. We wrote: Not until after deadline did we get…

An emotion-laden batch of mail arrived in response to "The 2 million-person Gulag," our April 10 treatment of news that the U.S. prison and jail population…

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Commentary

Black frontrunner for Illinois Senate Seat – The Issues

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Black Chicago is attempting to take back the Illinois Senate seat held for one term (1992 – 1998) by Democratic Presidential candidate Carole Moseley-Braun. The arithmetic says State Senator Barack Obama is the man to beat in a crowded Democratic primary field, newly enlivened by Republican incumbent Senator Peter Fitzgerald’s decision, last week, not to…

Black Chicago is attempting to take back the Illinois Senate seat held for one term (1992 - 1998) by Democratic Presidential candidate Carole Moseley-Braun. The arithmetic…

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Commentary

What the Black Presidential Candidate Must Do

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Last week New York’s Village Voice ran an article advising Rev. Al Sharpton how to run his campaign. We’re not going to do that. Sharpton will show who he is in the course of the race. Even those of us who think we know him cannot predict what the National Action Network leader will become…

Last week New York's Village Voice ran an article advising Rev. Al Sharpton how to run his campaign. We're not going to do that. Sharpton will…

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