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eBookCan We Raise a New Generation of Non-Violent People? – A Poem and an Essay

By Joe Navarro Guest Commentator

Hyphenated As a young child I thought I was an unhyphenated American I was John Wayne, growing Into my role, a real-American Transitioning to a teen, who Grew up in the other-America Becoming the other-American Whose life was consumed in Survivalist strategies, where poverty Was one welfare check away from Extinction, where hue mattered In…

Hyphenated As a young child I thought I was an unhyphenated American I was John Wayne, growing Into my role, a real-American Transitioning to a teen,…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore or Googles 24-Hour Spies

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Hitler left it to Goebbels to minister to the psychological needs of the German people, a task to which the Propaganda Minister brought his considerable resources of energy and imagination. He fed the people a carefully blended mixture of hopes and fears and threats and promises, cleverly seizing upon the Allied declarations…to prove that a…

Hitler left it to Goebbels to minister to the psychological needs of the German people, a task to which the Propaganda Minister brought his considerable resources…

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Slavery Exists, and in 2013, Rich Nations Benefit From Slavery

By John Funiciello Columnist

The estimate today is that there are some 27 million slaves in the world. Now, no one knows exactly how many there are, because, since slavery is outlawed around the world, it is a rather clandestine enterprise. Modern slavers don’t advertise. They don’t have to, but their “wares” are not hard to find. Kevin Bales,…

The estimate today is that there are some 27 million slaves in the world. Now, no one knows exactly how many there are, because, since slavery…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Tyranny and Thugs

By Desi Cortez Columnist

What’s the “color,” and who’s the face of both tyrannical tyranny and treacherous thuggery in America? A Black man. Believe it. Despite the extreme contrast, yes, Black men sit, simultaneously at both ends of the spectrum Interesting indeed. President Obama, according to the reactionary Rednecks, is little more than a power hungry Commie/Pinko/Marxist/militant Black Nationalist…

What’s the “color,” and who’s the face of both tyrannical tyranny and treacherous thuggery in America? A Black man. Believe it. Despite the extreme contrast, yes,…

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