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Issue: 452

Dec 15, 2011

The African World

Rick Santorum Has Become a Master at the Science of Nutrition

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Just when you thought that you had heard enough ignorance, Rick Santorum opens his mouth. In a speech this past week he announced that given the obesity problem in the USA there was no longer a great need for food stamps. When i first read the posting regarding Santorum’s statement I assumed that this was…

Just when you thought that you had heard enough ignorance, Rick Santorum opens his mouth. In a speech this past week he announced that given the…

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Commentary

A Pall over the Holidays – the Joblessness Crisis Intensifies

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

It was fascinating to observe the response, across the political spectrum, to the November unemployment statistics. Pundits on the right and left were quick to correctly point out that there was hardly anything positive or hopeful about the numbers. Republican Michele Bachmann, who opposes extending jobless benefits, hypocritically crowed that “the lower numbers are being…

It was fascinating to observe the response, across the political spectrum, to the November unemployment statistics. Pundits on the right and left were quick to correctly…

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Commentary

The Mockery Called ‘Democracy’ in the USA

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The irrefutable reality in the United States is that ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people do not have or enjoy a genuine people’s democracy. Rather, the people of this nation are the victims of a continuing singular sham – the greatest mockery of democracy this world has ever known – and it…

The irrefutable reality in the United States is that ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people do not have or enjoy a genuine people's…

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Commentary

Black LGBTQ Community Doesn’t Support Its Own

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Just last month, Gay Black Men News (GBMNews.com) folded. It was a unique online eZine because it brought a perspective of the news as it related specifically to gay men of African descent. And its circulation was global. Ralph Emerson, publisher and founder of GBMNews said: “We are blessed with a large following of avant…

Just last month, Gay Black Men News (GBMNews.com) folded. It was a unique online eZine because it brought a perspective of the news as it related…

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Commentary

Imagine Victories in the New Year!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The U.S. continued the legalized execution of its citizens this year. In our name and for our safety, Troy Davis, whom many believed innocent, was murdered. Seven of the nine who testified against him, recanted. Coercion! The U.S. injustice system, its practitioners, gathered affidavits of lies and forced an innocent man to serve 20 years…

The U.S. continued the legalized execution of its citizens this year. In our name and for our safety, Troy Davis, whom many believed innocent, was murdered.…

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Commentary

The Fraud of “Free Trade,” Part II

By John Funiciello Columnist

There never was a great cry from the American people for what we now call free trade in a “global economy.” The only persistent call came from Corporate America, from commodity traders, from banks, from investment houses, from manufacturers (the shrinking base that existed), from everyone who had a stake in the exploitation of natural…

There never was a great cry from the American people for what we now call free trade in a “global economy.” The only persistent call came…

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Commentary

Three Commentaries

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Repairing Ourselves Day in and day out we can observe the increased number of African people killing each other, mentally and physically abusing each other, stealing from each other, being dishonest with each other, and the list goes on and on. These negative incidents occur, in part, because segments of the African community in the…

Repairing Ourselves Day in and day out we can observe the increased number of African people killing each other, mentally and physically abusing each other, stealing…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

America … Where Rich People Are Simply “Better” Than Poor People

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I’ve always understood their was a distinct, inherent bond between racism, sexism and classism, that being exploitation, pimping thoseamong us with the least. It has always seemed evident to me that I lived in a nation, the US of A, which proudly proclaims itself to have the most advanced form of modernized civilization ever constructed…

I’ve always understood their was a distinct, inherent bond between racism, sexism and classism, that being exploitation, pimping thoseamong us with the least. It has always…

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