Issue: 492
Nov 1, 2012
The African World
The Hurricane and the Postal Service
Editorial Board
Ask yourself if you care whether or not you receive the mail that the Constitution promises.I have lived through several hurricanes and major storms. When you do not know whether your roof will hold together or whether you will get flooded out (and our basement was flooded in the 2011 hurricane), the anxiety is indescribable.…
Ask yourself if you care whether or not you receive the mail that the Constitution promises.I have lived through several hurricanes and major storms. When you…
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Commentary
Election Day
Guest Commentator
They gave him four years of obstruction.The Elections season of 2012 is nearly over. We could not fathom the degree of hypocrisy this campaign season produced, as nearly anything and everything has been said by the Romney/Ryan team to win the election. You have to be careful about someone who will say anything to get…
They gave him four years of obstruction.The Elections season of 2012 is nearly over. We could not fathom the degree of hypocrisy this campaign season produced,…
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Commentary
Path
Guest Commentator
President Obama insists Israel has a “right” to nuclear weapons. This brother definitely does not speak for me. This election – like most elections in the U.S. – is not a pathway to accomplish very much. At best it is an opportunity for a defensive action such as to prevent bad Supreme Court nominations or…
President Obama insists Israel has a “right” to nuclear weapons. This brother definitely does not speak for me. This election – like most elections in the…
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Commentary
Radicals, Activists and the 2012 Elections in the United States
Editorial Board
Introduction The challenge will be to defeat Romney while building a movement that is based on reversing the priorities of the militarists so that the society can make a break with the power of the financial aristocracy and the traditions of racial genocide.The US society is at a crossroads. A massive debt, a devalued dollar…
Introduction The challenge will be to defeat Romney while building a movement that is based on reversing the priorities of the militarists so that the society…
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Commentary
Will Obama Or Romney Save Our Planet?
Editorial Board
Many of us believe campaign politics and donor contributions are playing a huge role on how both presidential candidates artfully avoid the topic head-on. If you are an End-of- days believer then Frankenstorm Sandy is merely a precursor to what was forewarned millenniums ago by Nostradamus, the Book of Revelation and Mayan calendar. And our…
Many of us believe campaign politics and donor contributions are playing a huge role on how both presidential candidates artfully avoid the topic head-on. If you…
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Commentary
Blood Gushes
Guest Commentator
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” – Howard Zinn “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” – Frederick Douglass As this, the latter part of the year 2012, slips toward the year 2013, our…
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." - Howard Zinn "America is false to the past, false to the…
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Commentary
Time for Disinformation
Columnist
Moral compasses, intestinal fortitude and American honor have no place in the conversationI get sad and melancholy when I hear my people express intense apathy when it comes to voting. Hell, I get sad when I hear anybody give an excuse not to vote. “Man, it’s an electoral college that decides; my vote won’t count…
Moral compasses, intestinal fortitude and American honor have no place in the conversationI get sad and melancholy when I hear my people express intense apathy when…
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