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Issue: 471

May 10, 2012

Commentary

WAR: The “Mutual Butchery” of the Poor and Working Class

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Luxemburg warns: �[s]ocial democracy is not linked to the organization of the working class; it is the working class�s own movement.� What is needed is �education� for a �new discipline,� one that is �voluntary self-discipline.� Only by �defying and uprooting� this discipline instilled in them by the capitalist state, Luxemburg explains, can the movement of…

Luxemburg warns: �[s]ocial democracy is not linked to the organization of the working class; it is the working class�s own movement.� What is needed is �education�…

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Commentary

U.S. Moving Toward Abolition of the Death Penalty…Slowly

By John Funiciello Columnist

With the signing of a death penalty abolition law in Connecticut at the end of April, the U.S. moved toward general abolition of the death penalty as a sentence, but the Nutmeg state is only the 17th in the nation to end its use. The country is moving painfully slowly toward joining the developed countries…

With the signing of a death penalty abolition law in Connecticut at the end of April, the U.S. moved toward general abolition of the death penalty…

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Guest Commentary

Vengeance is Mine, Says…

By Wilson Riles Columnist

I do not know about you but my greatest disappointment with President Barack Obama is really disappointment over a collective failing of all of us. The failing is our collective blindness to the barbarity and moral corruptness of justified state vengeance, as the worm deep in our cultural gut that poisons our thoughts and our…

I do not know about you but my greatest disappointment with President Barack Obama is really disappointment over a collective failing of all of us. The…

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Commentary

African Liberation Day 2012: Part II

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

This is the second of a two part series discussing the origin and development of African Liberation Day (click here to read Part I). The month of May is very important in the worldwide African Liberation Movement. During this month, throughout the African world Community, African Liberation Day (ALD) is celebrated. It is important that…

This is the second of a two part series discussing the origin and development of African Liberation Day (click here to read Part I). The month…

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Commentary

Convincing Young Voters President Obama was the Change Candidate Obama Promised

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

President Obama launched his re-election campaign last week and now, for the next six months, the nation will be witness to the Republicans� attempt to derail the most significant change to ever affect the Presidency of the United States. At least from a complexion perspective. Maybe even from an ideological perspective. Barack Obama is clearly…

President Obama launched his re-election campaign last week and now, for the next six months, the nation will be witness to the Republicans� attempt to derail…

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Cover Story

Obama Comes Out on Gay Marriage

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Before President Obama announced his view on marriage equality had finished �evolving�, it was apparent that for two of his top officials the evolution was complete. For Vice President Joe Biden, the issue is a no-brainer. �I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women…

Before President Obama announced his view on marriage equality had finished �evolving�, it was apparent that for two of his top officials the evolution was complete.…

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