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Sept 20, 2012

Commentary

Thomas Cromwell on Jobs – a Message for Today

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Some good ideas endure for centuries. In her superb new historical novel, Bring Up the Bodies, shortlisted last week for the Man Booker prize, Hilary Mantel has Thomas Cromwell musing about how “… England needs better roads, and bridges that don’t collapse.” The narrator says the aide to Henry VIII “is preparing a bill for…

Some good ideas endure for centuries. In her superb new historical novel, Bring Up the Bodies, shortlisted last week for the Man Booker prize, Hilary Mantel…

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Commentary

Failure to Compromise

By Perry Redd Columnist

Bogus re-writes of history are dark marks on our supposed American values I see this as a “boo-game” that Republicans are playing with the American public, without telling the whole story. You see, in politics, there’s a negotiation tactic known as compromise, about which the Republicans act as if they have no knowledge. Known as…

Bogus re-writes of history are dark marks on our supposed American values I see this as a “boo-game” that Republicans are playing with the American public,…

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Commentary

Rosa Luxemburg and Capitalism’s Spectacles

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The lesson of Hobbs and Tocqueville can be boiled down to a brief but chilling dictum: concentrated power, whether of a Leviathan, a benevolent despotism, or a superpower, is impossible without the support of a complicitous citizenry that willingly signs on to the covenant, or acquiesces, or clicks the ‘mute button.’ -Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy…

The lesson of Hobbs and Tocqueville can be boiled down to a brief but chilling dictum: concentrated power, whether of a Leviathan, a benevolent despotism, or…

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Commentary

Land Grab Techniques Useful In U.S., As Well As Third World

By John Funiciello Columnist

While land grabs continue at an accelerating rate in the developing world, it is mostly ignored that the same techniques are being used in the U.S., despite the claims to freedom and democracy. Generally, land grabs are the taking of (mostly) farmland from peasants and indigenous people in countries where it is easy to accomplish,…

While land grabs continue at an accelerating rate in the developing world, it is mostly ignored that the same techniques are being used in the U.S.,…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

They Don’t Lynch Negroes, Do They?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If Mitt Romney’s elected, this nation will be taking a deliberate step backward towards a country where the lynchings of Black people is more likely According to the AP Wire, the sign, which has stood for nearly a week along the street in front of the church, shows, on one side, a white mob gathered…

If Mitt Romney’s elected, this nation will be taking a deliberate step backward towards a country where the lynchings of Black people is more likely According…

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Commentary

Curriculum Strategy

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Part of our repair as an African people is the continued struggle to organize to challenge the teaching of African and Africans in America history in the public schools of America. This issue should continue to be a priority in our educational organizing agenda. To have African in America children skilled and proficient at reading…

Part of our repair as an African people is the continued struggle to organize to challenge the teaching of African and Africans in America history in…

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