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Quote to Ponder: “Wall Street owns the country.. . .Money rules.. . .The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us.” – Mary Elizabeth Lease (1890)
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Issue: 454
Jan 12, 2012
Commentary
The Day of the Broom is Over: Indefinite Detention for Enemies of the U.S. Empire!
Editorial Board
While many citizens have turned to alternative and particularly progressive news sites, online news magazines such as ours, or Truthout or Op-Ed News, I encounter citizens who not only have never heard of these sites, and knowing less is better than knowing more. For many citizens in the U.S., reality became too much to endure,…
While many citizens have turned to alternative and particularly progressive news sites, online news magazines such as ours, or Truthout or Op-Ed News, I encounter citizens…
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Commentary
Changing Gears to Fight the Endless Wars Without Troops
Columnist
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,…
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,…
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Commentary
Political Cartoon – The Weenie
Cartoonist and writer
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Commentary
Maafa, Genocide, and Reparations
Columnist
At this current stage of history in the African (Black) Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts to seek clarity on certain ideas that are fundamental to the white supremacy foundation of America. First, there is the idea and concept of the �Maafa.� When we discuss…
At this current stage of history in the African (Black) Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts…
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