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Jan 6, 2011

Cover Story

Saving Social Security & the Poisonous Chalice

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Returning from the sunny climes of Hawaii to the nation’s still frigid capital, President Obama will, over the next couple of months, face the greatest challenges of his time in office. Pushing healthcare reform through – as limited as it turned out to be – was an historic achievement. However, the question now before us…

Returning from the sunny climes of Hawaii to the nation’s still frigid capital, President Obama will, over the next couple of months, face the greatest challenges…

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Commentary

GOP Plan to Steamroll Workers is No Secret

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Republicans are about to take over the House and Senate in numbers or in spirit. The GOP, including junior Tea Party legislators, has pledged to give the Obama Administration holy hell and at the same time, make our lives more miserable. Their ultimate goal is to make the wealthy elite richer and to make slave…

Republicans are about to take over the House and Senate in numbers or in spirit. The GOP, including junior Tea Party legislators, has pledged to give…

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The African World

When the infection is not eliminated: Contemporary politics and the legacy of the Confederate States of America

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Over the last two decades increased attention has focused on the ramifications of failing to complete an anti-biotics regimen in treating infections. The most noteworthy example of the problem involves tuberculosis. Many patients begin their treatment and then decide at a certain moment to stop because they believe that they have been ‘cured.’ The net…

Over the last two decades increased attention has focused on the ramifications of failing to complete an anti-biotics regimen in treating infections. The most noteworthy example…

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Color of Law

GOP Strives To Make Hate Groups Look Respectable By David A. Love – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

For good or for bad, you’re judged by the company you keep, and that goes for the Republican Party and anyone else. But when the GOP is accused of cozying up to hate groups, they don’t seem to distance themselves from the alleged affiliations, they embrace them. Sometimes Republicans go out of their way to…

For good or for bad, you’re judged by the company you keep, and that goes for the Republican Party and anyone else. But when the GOP…

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Commentary

Is the United States A Nation of Psychological Androids?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

-Lucy Parsons Have we allowed ourselves to become psychological androids – putty and/or expendable cannon fodder – in the hands of the corporate / military elite of this nation and its subservient corporate-stream media? The word android is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a mobile robot usually with a human form.” Yet, beyond the…

-Lucy Parsons Have we allowed ourselves to become psychological androids - putty and/or expendable cannon fodder - in the hands of the corporate / military elite…

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Commentary

An Independent Investigation or Will There Be Silence? The Hanging of Frederick Jermaine Carter

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

It has been a month now since Frederick Jermaine Carter’s body was found on December 3, 2010 hanging from a tress in Greenwood, Mississippi. The writers and commentators on the liberal and left did not notice or, if they did, perhaps they shrugged their shoulders and accepted the unofficial “verdict” of the Mississippi sheriff: death…

It has been a month now since Frederick Jermaine Carter’s body was found on December 3, 2010 hanging from a tress in Greenwood, Mississippi. The writers…

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Commentary

Say What? Lesbian priests marrying each other!

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

All couples like to bring the New Year in on a loving note. And what better way for two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church to demonstrate their commitment to each other than in holy matrimony. Before a jubilant crowd of 400 guests on New Year’s Day, the Rev. Mally Lloyd, former pastor at Christ…

All couples like to bring the New Year in on a loving note. And what better way for two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church to…

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Commentary

EFCA, Unions, Workers Face Uncertain Future in America

By John Funiciello Columnist

With the seating of a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives this week, the slim prospects for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act became a virtual impossibility. EFCA was designed to provide a way for workers to organize unions without the likelihood of a full-blown assault on their efforts by their employers…

With the seating of a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives this week, the slim prospects for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act…

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