Issue: 457
Feb 1, 2012
Commentary
Newt Gingrich and What Black People Need: Intellectualizing Racism
Columnist
Over the last few weeks, Republican Party Presidential Nominee, Newt Gingrich, has found a way to make himself relevant again. Not to the Republican Party, because are trying to find a way to sink him. Newt has become relevant to the always dysfunctional (and uncomfortable) race discourse in this nation. This time around Newt is…
Over the last few weeks, Republican Party Presidential Nominee, Newt Gingrich, has found a way to make himself relevant again. Not to the Republican Party, because…
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Cover Story
Medicare, Social Security & Medicaid Still Under Threat in 2012
Editorial Board
Next month, people in three Northern California communities will get to see and hear up close former senator Republican Alan Simpson, the man who once referred to Social Security as “a milk cow with 310 million tits,” and his trusted sidekick, former White House chief of staff and Morgan Stanley director Democrat, Erskine Bowles. �Simpson-Bowles�…
Next month, people in three Northern California communities will get to see and hear up close former senator Republican Alan Simpson, the man who once referred…
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Commentary
Do We Still Need to Celebrate Black History Month?
Editorial Board
February 1 begins Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African-Americans. February 1, 2010, the International Civil Rights Center and Museum (ICRCM) opened in Greensboro, North Carolina, honoring the courageous action of four African- American students. Their actions led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which…
February 1 begins Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African-Americans. February 1, 2010, the International Civil Rights…
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Commentary
Predator Drone Missiles and Political Repression from the ‘Community Organizer’
Editorial Board
The reign of terror, in the form of U.S. predator-drone missiles and bombs reigning down from the skies on the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north Africa, etc., far from diminishing, has been increased ten-fold by a corporate-owned U.S. president, congress, and judiciary that have gone stark raving mad. The everyday ordinary people of this…
The reign of terror, in the form of U.S. predator-drone missiles and bombs reigning down from the skies on the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north…
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Guest Commentary
Optimistically Hopeful
Guest Commentator
We are well into the New Year with its compliment of new beginnings and seemingly fresh starts. We are likewise almost in the midst of another election season with the elaboration that accompanies the anticipation, excitement, and interest.� In this 2012 black history month we are in the concluding days of the first term of…
We are well into the New Year with its compliment of new beginnings and seemingly fresh starts. We are likewise almost in the midst of another…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism…” – Frantz Fanon
Guest Commentator
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