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Issue: 422

Apr 14, 2011

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Moving Left – A Conversation: A BlackCommentator Series, Part 1 – Introduction & Invitation

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The 2012 presidential election is approaching; you don’t have to be a genius to know it. The thought of putting up with almost two more years of political gyrations and lies by the hard Right, their mindless protection of the filthy rich and their vicious attacks on working people and people of color is revolting.…

The 2012 presidential election is approaching; you don’t have to be a genius to know it. The thought of putting up with almost two more years…

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Commentary

US Military And Africom: Between The Rocks And The Crusaders

By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD Editorial Board

The Western bombardment of Gaddafi’s forces in Libya has become an opportunistic public relations ploy for the United States Africa Command (Africom) and a new inroad for US military stronghold on the continent. This involvement of Africom in the bombardment is now serving to expose the contradictions and deceit that have surrounded the formation of…

The Western bombardment of Gaddafi’s forces in Libya has become an opportunistic public relations ploy for the United States Africa Command (Africom) and a new inroad…

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Commentary

Incarceration Presents Opportunity – A Luta Continua

By Chuck Turner Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Chuck Turner is writing this column from the U.S. Federal Prison in Hazelton, West Virginia where he is serving a three year term for a bribery conviction. BC is in contact with Mr. Turner by email and telephone. Click here to send an email message that BC can pass on to…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Chuck Turner is writing this column from the U.S. Federal Prison in Hazelton, West Virginia where he is serving a three year…

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Commentary

A ‘Vision’ for the New Century. Or, a Nightmare

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

John Authers, the financial markets columnist for the Financial Times got it right: “The politics of the shutdown have been melodramatic and its possible effects overstated.” The paper’s editors called the episode “banana republic machinations.” Well, it’s over now; the troops will get paid on time and the national parks remain open. If the whole,…

John Authers, the financial markets columnist for the Financial Times got it right: “The politics of the shutdown have been melodramatic and its possible effects overstated.”…

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Commentary

Using Blacks “For Saving America from the Bondage of Gay Marriage”

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

No faith community knows better than the Black Church how religion-based bigotry shapes prejudicial attitudes many white Americans once held toward African Americans in this country. Religious texts have been interpreted to justify some of this country’s worst crimes against our community, resulting in the legality of slavery, the lynching of black boys and men…

No faith community knows better than the Black Church how religion-based bigotry shapes prejudicial attitudes many white Americans once held toward African Americans in this country.…

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Commentary

“Hope & Change” Or the Rope & Chain?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of…

"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash…

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Commentary

Marable’s Malcolm X, A Representative for Hope and Human Dignity

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

In Sickbay, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, “gravely” injured, slips into a coma (“Tapestry,” The Next Generation, StarTerk.com). Q appears. Your artificial heart has failed: you are dead, he tells Picard. But he, Q, can grant any wish. What do you wish? To live with a real heart and to avoid the incident that caused me to…

In Sickbay, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, “gravely” injured, slips into a coma (“Tapestry,” The Next Generation, StarTerk.com). Q appears. Your artificial heart has failed: you are dead,…

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The African World

Book Review – The Other Green Movement: An Exciting And Complicated Look At The Iranian Opposition Movement

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, Editors, The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future , Brooklyn, New York: Melville House Publishing, 2011, 440 pp. Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel have produced one of the most interesting, informative and timely pieces of work on Iran that I have seen in some time.…

Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel, Editors, The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future , Brooklyn, New York: Melville House Publishing, 2011,…

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