Issue: 505
Feb 21, 2013
Guest Commentary
Black Future Month – Black History Month
Guest Commentator
So, here we are midway through Black History Month and already it seems as though the nation has fallen into the black hole of ignorance about black Americans. It reminds me about the line that someone “has a face you forget while you’re looking at him.” America is forgetting about black people while it looks…
So, here we are midway through Black History Month and already it seems as though the nation has fallen into the black hole of ignorance about…
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Commentary
Calling Out the Misleaders of the Phony ‘Progressives’ and the Fake U.S. ‘Left’
Editorial Board
“It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a chameleon who speaks liberally of ‘change’ but who is, himself, beholden to the very same blood-sucking corporate vampires (including Lockheed and others) who are ravaging the people of America, and the entire planet…Many…
“It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a chameleon who speaks liberally…
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Commentary
Bump Up the Minimum Wage – A Moderate but Meaningful Step to Tackle Inequality
Editorial Board
On February 6, the New York Times reported, “The Chinese government issued a long-awaited plan on Tuesday to narrow the gulf between rich and poor, offering broad vows to lift the incomes of workers and farmers and choke off corrupt wealth but few specific goals to rein in the nation’s wide inequality.” On the same…
On February 6, the New York Times reported, “The Chinese government issued a long-awaited plan on Tuesday to narrow the gulf between rich and poor, offering…
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Commentary
How Radical Are You?
Columnist
It is possible to be too radical! A person’s and/or a group’s sign of being too radical can best be delineated by their commitment to having and stockpiling guns and other weapons. Wherever a person or a group stands on a point of “political space” – right, left, up, down, transcendent (I don’t believe in…
It is possible to be too radical! A person’s and/or a group’s sign of being too radical can best be delineated by their commitment to having…
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Commentary
Black Non-Violence Only Spoiled White Americans, Most Notably Police – Point Blank
Columnist
Do any of you recall some kid named Malcolm-something trying to take a plane to Iran last week, and getting arrested? And Mary J. Blige was playing his grandmother in a TV movie of some kind, and all this was upstaged by a brother going on a shooting spree. Seriously, LAPD Officers can’t stop being…
Do any of you recall some kid named Malcolm-something trying to take a plane to Iran last week, and getting arrested? And Mary J. Blige was…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved…” – Angela Y. Davis
Guest Commentator
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