Apr 25, 2013
Commentary
Columnist
I imagine that a video will turn up soon, showing a bald eagle attempting to pick up the bombs.
On February 7, 2003, I was on the T, stopped at the MIT station. Several policemen on the train platform looked at me, and I knew…
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The African World
Editorial Board
terrorism is, in fact, being used in the USA as a word to describe political killings that serve a political motive that arbitrarily place white people in danger.
The bombings in Boston left me with a feeling of having been kicked in the stomach. They represented an atrocity. And in the immediate aftermath I…
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Commentary
Columnist
If it is an act of terror in 2013, it was an act of terror in 1963.
We send our prayers to the people of Boston, and the victims, of what our President called an “act of terror,” after two bombs exploded during…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
This is a complicated moment. It is a moment of relief but also a moment to reflect. Americans should not allow bigotry, labeling and racism to rule their judgment of what is just and compassionate.
My sense of justice and compassion for the victims of violence is precisely why I feel I have to say something. The United States, in general,…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Just hours after news spread globally about the tragedy, sadly, anti-Muslim vigilantes surfaced.
The Tsarnaev brothers - Tamerlan and Dzhokhar - of Cambridge, MA are, at present, the sole perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombings. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar are…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Being kept ignorant, misinformed, and/or uninformed is, in itself, a form of terrorism by the corporate-owned U.S. government against the people of the U.S. and against peoples of Mother Earth.
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy…
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