Issue: 476
June 14, 2012
The African World
Romney and the Right: They hate him…but they hate Obama more
Editorial Board
What is interesting about the relationship of the extreme political Right to Romney is that they actually hate him. This is not speculation. If you review the language of the Republican primary season it is clear that they actually despise him. They do not believe that he is a real conservative. They do not believe…
What is interesting about the relationship of the extreme political Right to Romney is that they actually hate him. This is not speculation. If you review…
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Cartoon
Mark Hurwitt Cartoons In “Legalize Freedom, Art is Activism” Exhibit
Guest Commentator
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Color of Law
These Low Information Voters Will Be Our Undoing – The
Executive Editor
The results of the recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tell you most of what you need to know about the state of politics in the U.S. On the one hand, you have a governor who did not hide his desire to divide and conquer the unions, eliminate collective bargaining, decimate government services and…
The results of the recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tell you most of what you need to know about the state of politics in…
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Commentary
The Wisconsin Recall Vote: Another Wakeup call for the Left in the United States of America
Editorial Board
On Tuesday June 5, there was a recall election to remove Scott Walker, the Republican Governor of the State of Wisconsin. Walker had won the election as Governor in November 2010 when a racist populist formation called the Tea Party mobilized millions to oppose the ideas of a new multi-racial USA based on social and…
On Tuesday June 5, there was a recall election to remove Scott Walker, the Republican Governor of the State of Wisconsin. Walker had won the election…
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Commentary
South Africa’s “Corrective Rape” of Lesbians
Editorial Board
To hear of human rights abuses of Uganda’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) population is, sadly, not new. Gay activist, David Kato, was the father of the Uganda’s LGBTQ rights movement. To many of his fellow countrymen, Kato was a dead man walking once his homosexuality became public. The country’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill dubbed…
To hear of human rights abuses of Uganda’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) population is, sadly, not new. Gay activist, David Kato, was the…
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Commentary
The Movement Pimps: Blaming Republicans for Being Republicans
Editorial Board
-Lucy Parsons As the economic and social contradictions of the corporate controlled U.S. political system deepen, the terrible pain of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people is, and will continue, to concomitantly increase. Even so, there are those so-called ‘progressives’ and/or ‘leftists’ who are making a comfortable living from the very pain of…
-Lucy Parsons As the economic and social contradictions of the corporate controlled U.S. political system deepen, the terrible pain of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and…
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Commentary
Obama’s Response to the Jobs Crisis is Still Too Lame
Editorial Board
Quite often, media reports and commentaries about the rising tide of unemployment – especially amongst young people – in other parts of the world are accompanied by warning of dire consequences if the trend continues. Images of major social protests and even acts of violence are evoked. Take, for instance, Europe. The highest youth jobless…
Quite often, media reports and commentaries about the rising tide of unemployment - especially amongst young people - in other parts of the world are accompanied…
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