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Sep 23, 2010

The African World

Israel and Obama

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The so-called peace talks between Israel and the Palestine National Authority raise a number of interesting and, in some respects, provocative questions. One concerns whether the Israeli government has any interest in a just peace. The second is whether the Netanyahu group (in power) wishes to bring down President Obama. In terms of the first…

The so-called peace talks between Israel and the Palestine National Authority raise a number of interesting and, in some respects, provocative questions. One concerns whether the…

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Color of Law

Of Course Poverty Is On the Rise In Charles Dickens’ America – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Well, it appears that some of the nation’s leading economists have proclaimed that the recession is over. Of course, these were the best and brightest who failed to warn us of the Great Recession in the first place, but I don’t want to sidetrack you with trivialities. So, let us pop open a bottle of…

Well, it appears that some of the nation’s leading economists have proclaimed that the recession is over. Of course, these were the best and brightest who…

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Commentary

Gangsters, Politicians, Cocaine and Bankers

By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com welcomes Dr. Horace Campbell as a member of the BC Editorial Board. His column “Emancipation from Mental Slavery” will appear on a regular basis. Note: Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, alleged drug lord and leader of Jamaican gang, the Shower Posse, was arrested on 22 June. Coke’s arrest, writes Horace Campbell, opens up the possibility to…

BlackCommentator.com welcomes Dr. Horace Campbell as a member of the BC Editorial Board. His column “Emancipation from Mental Slavery” will appear on a regular basis. Note:…

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Commentary

An executive order would repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell”

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

This week Lady Gaga joined a rally in Maine to send a message to the state’s two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, asking them to vote to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT ” this week. But to no one’s surprise Senate Republicans rejected it. Democrats needed only 60 votes to overcome…

This week Lady Gaga joined a rally in Maine to send a message to the state's two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, asking…

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Commentary

Obama, Jobs, Poverty, Taxes & the ‘Enthusiasm Gap’

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Obama, Jobs, Poverty, Taxes & the ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ Left Margin By Carl Bloice BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Toward the end of last month, the New York Times said editorially: “Mr. Obama also needs to inspire Americans who have been ground down by the economic crisis and Washington’s small-bore sniping. He needs to rally the nation around…

Obama, Jobs, Poverty, Taxes & the 'Enthusiasm Gap' Left Margin By Carl Bloice BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Toward the end of last month, the New York Times…

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Commentary

The Wizards Go ‘Round Again-Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Frederick Douglass I have told this story before. It is one that Tsitsi Dangarembga bravely revealed through the voice of a young girl in a village in Zimbabwe (Nervous Conditions). Ever since she could remember, Tambu has listened to the wisdom of her grandmother. Along with other children in the village, she absorbed the history…

-Frederick Douglass I have told this story before. It is one that Tsitsi Dangarembga bravely revealed through the voice of a young girl in a village…

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Commentary

Historical Necrophilia of the Extreme Right Wing and Their Distorted Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“We realized at a very early point in our development that revolution is a process. It is not a particular action, nor is it a conclusion…This process moves in a dialectical manner and we understand the struggle of the opposites based upon their unity.” -Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People “If history is…

“We realized at a very early point in our development that revolution is a process. It is not a particular action, nor is it a conclusion…This…

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Commentary

Tea Partiers Fear Poverty, Possible Economic Collapse, but Support the Elite Who Have Caused Their Troubles

By John Funiciello Columnist

There are two things growing simultaneously in America that do not make sense when they’re viewed together: the poverty rate and the ranks of the Tea Party and their cheerleaders in Congress. Granted, the government is beleaguered and the economy is in turmoil – jobless rates are holding steady at about 10 percent (officially) –…

There are two things growing simultaneously in America that do not make sense when they’re viewed together: the poverty rate and the ranks of the Tea…

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