Issue: 509
Mar 21, 2013
Cartoon
Political Cartoon – Pope Francis I: Good Friend of Argentina’s Dictatorship
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Guest Commentary
The Life of Hugo Chavez and the Death of the L.A. Elections
Guest Commentator
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, two events happened of diametrically opposed moral and historical significance – the end of the life of the great world leader, Hugo Chavez, and the death of the Los Angeles mayoral elections. In between yawns and “oh, was there some kind of election in the news that I missed?” 8…
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, two events happened of diametrically opposed moral and historical significance - the end of the life of the great world leader,…
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The African World
Drones – Foreign & Domestic
Editorial Board
The debate over the use of drones took a very odd turn when it became clear that the Obama administration did not wish to state, categorically, that there would be no drone strikes against targets in the USA. Watching Attorney General Eric Holder bob and weave was actually quite fascinating and at the same time…
The debate over the use of drones took a very odd turn when it became clear that the Obama administration did not wish to state, categorically,…
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Commentary
Mexico Sets the Tone on Hate Speech
Editorial Board
Homophobic epithets are so pervasive across the globe that most heterosexual people are sadly unaware of the psychological and physical toil they have on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. Too often and cavalierly these epithets go either unchecked or unchallenged as hate speech. Mexico, however, has stepped forward to define and reduce…
Homophobic epithets are so pervasive across the globe that most heterosexual people are sadly unaware of the psychological and physical toil they have on lesbian, gay,…
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Commentary
Dacajeweiah, Splitting-The-Sky: You Shall Be Remembered With Great Honor!
Editorial Board
“Today is a good day to die. Follow me!” – Crazy Horse, at the battle of Little Big Horn “To die for the…racists…is lighter than a feather. But to die for the people…is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.” – Huey P. Newton Words seem so inadequate when our freedom fighters transition…
“Today is a good day to die. Follow me!” - Crazy Horse, at the battle of Little Big Horn “To die for the...racists...is lighter than a…
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Commentary
A Sweet, Sweet Spirit
Columnist
On March 14, Rachel Maddow interviewed on her show (The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC) a person with the sweetest spirit that I have encountered in a long time! Many folks on the left refuse to admit that there is such a thing as spirit even when it causes them to fall silent and awe struck.…
On March 14, Rachel Maddow interviewed on her show (The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC) a person with the sweetest spirit that I have encountered in a…
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Commentary
If Harriet Tubman Were President
Editorial Board
In the Republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab a poem fluttering from the sky, blinded by weeping. – Martin Espada “In the Republic of Poetry” If Harriet Tubman were elected president of the United States, the Underground…
In the Republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab…
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