Issue: 486
Sept 20, 2012
The African World
Mainstream Media’s Obsession with Venezuela
Editorial Board
As the Venezuelan Presidential elections near (October 7th), the obsession of the US mainstream media with bringing down the administration of President Hugo Chavez resurfaces. The standard story line is generally the same: Venezuela is allegedly led by a dictator who is carrying out repression against his opponents. What is so striking about these allegations…
As the Venezuelan Presidential elections near (October 7th), the obsession of the US mainstream media with bringing down the administration of President Hugo Chavez resurfaces. The…
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Color of Law
What Would Be Gained if Terry Williams is Executed? – The
Executive Editor
The widow of the victim in Terry’s capital case, wants clemency as well First raped at the age of six by an older boy in the neighborhood, and coming home crying and with a bloodied backside, Terry Williams just couldn’t win from day one. His childhood was one of poverty, neglect and violence. Terry was…
The widow of the victim in Terry’s capital case, wants clemency as well First raped at the age of six by an older boy in the…
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Cover Story
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Columnist
Barack Obama would have done well to have more fully internalized this famous phrase from William Faulkner’s 1950 book Requiem for a Nun. Obama used this phrase in his speech on racism, A More Perfect Union, that some say won him the presidency in 2008. How he failed to incorporate and internalize this analysis is…
Barack Obama would have done well to have more fully internalized this famous phrase from William Faulkner’s 1950 book Requiem for a Nun. Obama used this…
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Commentary
Escobar Shocked “Fag” is a Slur
Editorial Board
Homophobia is part and parcel of male professional sports. Gay epithets are so pervasive among players that many players are sadly totally unaware of the weight and meaning of the terms. Homophobia can be addressed through sports “It didn’t have significance to the way that’s being interpreted right now,” Toronto Blue Jays shortstop, Yunel Escobar,…
Homophobia is part and parcel of male professional sports. Gay epithets are so pervasive among players that many players are sadly totally unaware of the weight…
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Commentary
Ignorance
Guest Commentator
An ignorant people are a controlled people There are those (especially much of this nation’s so-called ‘intelligentsia’) who are consciously complicit with this corrupt political system and its de facto corporate-government (Patriot Act/NDAA) police-state. These collaborators masquerade under many different banners. Some call themselves ‘progressives,’ others ‘liberals’, and yet others so-called ‘leftists,’ etc. But the…
An ignorant people are a controlled people There are those (especially much of this nation’s so-called ‘intelligentsia’) who are consciously complicit with this corrupt political system…
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Commentary
Lines Drawn in the Constitutional Sand
Editorial Board
The 2012 Democratic National Convention held in Charlotte, NC earlier this month is now behind us. Armed with calls to “move forward” delegates and politician alike left that place with the usual buzz that immediately follows these events. The sound bites have been thoroughly digested, action items discussed ad nauseum and all traces of a…
The 2012 Democratic National Convention held in Charlotte, NC earlier this month is now behind us. Armed with calls to “move forward” delegates and politician alike…
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