Issue: 453
Jan 5, 2012
Commentary
Our Dear Leader and Indefinite Detention or What is Universally Known as American DEMOCRACY!
Editorial Board
Surveillance technology, developed and deployed to subdue the Philippine population, was further fined tuned to subdue Brown, Black, and Indigenous populations in the Americas. A USAF predator drone was already used in the U.S. to aide the local police force arrest members of a North Dakota family who �allegedly wouldn’t give back three cows and…
Surveillance technology, developed and deployed to subdue the Philippine population, was further fined tuned to subdue Brown, Black, and Indigenous populations in the Americas. A USAF…
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Commentary
Not Farewell to the Occupy Movement
Columnist
With the removal of the tents and other accoutrements of the �Occupy Albany� encampment from Academy Park on Dec. 22, 2011, across the street from New York�s Capitol, many people in the area believed that the �occupy� movement was over. It took the Democratic mayor of the state�s capital city a while but, with the…
With the removal of the tents and other accoutrements of the �Occupy Albany� encampment from Academy Park on Dec. 22, 2011, across the street from New…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
2012: The Ballot or the Bullet
Columnist
BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi Cortez, was hatched in the heart of Dixie, circa 1961, at the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the by-product of four dynamic individuals, Raised in South-Central LA, the 213, at age 14 transplanted to the base of the Rockies, Denver. Still a Mile-Hi. Sat at the feet of scholars for many,…
BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi Cortez, was hatched in the heart of Dixie, circa 1961, at the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the by-product of four dynamic…
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View from the Battlefield
Unfinished Business in 2011 Means Handling Our Business in 2012 It’s a new year but will it be a new day?
Editorial Board
For most of us, we left 2011with mixed emotions. And while our individual situations and progress vary, it is important that we look at the bigger picture as the struggle over who government serves and how the social needs of a nation get met. It is painfully clear that most elected officials are either incapable…
For most of us, we left 2011with mixed emotions. And while our individual situations and progress vary, it is important that we look at the bigger…
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Commentary
Electoral Politics and Black People
Columnist
Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, when African Americans were granted the right to vote, through the 15th Amendment in 1868, electoral politics has played a dominant role in the African American Community. African Americans have been participating in electoral politics for 147 years. With the North winning the Civil War and…
Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, when African Americans were granted the right to vote, through the 15th Amendment in 1868, electoral politics…
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