Issue: 516
May 09, 2013
The African World
She’s No Terrorist: The Bizarre Move By The FBI Against Assata Shakur
Editorial Board
Label someone a “terrorist” and all sorts of actions can be justified, including targeted killings whether through drones or renegade bounty hunters.
Seemingly out of nowhere the FBI announced that fugitive Black activist Assata Shakur was now declared a “terrorist” on their Most Wanted list. In addition, a…
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Guest Commentary
The Economic Terrors in Our Lives
Guest Commentator
The National Alliance to End Homelessness reported that as of January 2012, more than half a million people are still without shelter from hunger and the elements, and about 60 to 65 thousand of them are veterans.
The recent Boston bombing, like the Sandy Hook massacre and other similar incidents, jolted Americans, forcing them to look into the face of horror and terror.…
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Commentary
Anti-Keynesian Homophobe, Niall Ferguson
Editorial Board
The Harvard economic historian hinted that John Maynard Keynes’ long-term economic theories were misguided at best, and flawed at worst, because he was childless and gay.
There are a lot of sound reasons to critique Keynesian economics, but a reason that its creator was gay shouldn’t be one of them. Niall Ferguson,…
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Guest Commentary
Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race – Analysis
Guest Commentator
“When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.”
Theodore W. Allen’s two-volume The Invention of the White Race (The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control, The Invention of…
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Commentary
It’s Time To Declare A General Amnesty for All Political Prisoners
Editorial Board
The prison industrial complex in the U.S. is essentially a 21st century form of economic and psychological slavery.
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” -…
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