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Mar 24, 2011

View from the Battlefield

Nuclear Energy Is No Alternative When Profits Always Trumps Safety

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Note: Ms. Rogers column “A View from the Battlefield” will appear in BC on a regular basis. The Japanese people got hit with a double whammy of somewhat natural origins. I say somewhat natural because I believe these catastrophes are directly linked to global warming. As Japan was reeling from an earthquake and tsunami, it…

Note: Ms. Rogers column “A View from the Battlefield” will appear in BC on a regular basis. The Japanese people got hit with a double whammy…

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Commentary

GOP Seeks to Move U.S. Back Beyond Collective Bargaining

By John Funiciello Columnist

Picture the breaker boys, rank on rank in the coal fields, sitting all day in the cold and the unrelenting coal dust, using their bare hands to sort through the coal to take out the slate and anything that would detract from the profits of the coal companies. Slate is sharp and it cut their…

Picture the breaker boys, rank on rank in the coal fields, sitting all day in the cold and the unrelenting coal dust, using their bare hands…

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Commentary

Re-Lighting the Gun Debate Candle

By Perry Redd Columnist

No, I’m not going to say “I told you so” – even if I did – because that may cause you to shy away from the debate. What I will say is that we’re chewing some fat that has already been chewed, but forgot to swallow. This is the time in presidential politics that presidents…

No, I’m not going to say “I told you so” - even if I did - because that may cause you to shy away from the…

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Commentary

Dr. Bobby Wright – A Great Black Thinker

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

So many of the problems that African people face in the world today are due to the assault on our minds by those who captured us and removed significant numbers of us to the western hemisphere. This also included the mind damage caused by the tampering of African lands and culture on the continent of…

So many of the problems that African people face in the world today are due to the assault on our minds by those who captured us…

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