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Quote to Ponder: “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics…” – Thomas A. Edison
Guest Commentator
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Issue: 526
Jul 25, 2013
Commentary
Rosa Luxemburg: Interview with Luxemburg Scholar and Editor, Peter Hudis
Editorial Board
Thanks to capitalism, we are not encouraged to learn from those who really honored and loved this Earth and respected all living forms on it.
Meanwhile, the preparations go on, the dream-like rituals are rehearsed, and the whole earth is being set up as an altar for a brunt offering, a…
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Commentary
Workers… Don’t Expect Much From U.S.-Europe: “Free Trade” Deal
Columnist
It is always the people at the bottom of the economy who pay the price.
There is no end of the attempts to make the whole world a “free trade zone,” by both governments and the transnational corporations that are the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Don’t Forget to Set Your Clocks Back 50 Years When You Go to Sleep Tonight
Columnist
Like cavemen dragging their women across the ground by their hair... the Republican TEA Party is deliberately hauling America back, back, back all the way into the middle of the last century, to a Black n’ White polarized place where they - White men, and only White men - had complete, absolute control over people-of-color and women in this nation.
“Don’t forget to set your clocks back 50 years when you go to sleep tonight”. Consider this, if you will - this President’s two-terms have created…
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View from the Battlefield
Murder by the Military: Remembering LaVena Johnson
Editorial Board
“occupational hazard,” then justice will continue to elude the young men and women serving in the armed forces.
LaVena Johnson’s family would be celebrating her 28th birthday on July 26. Sadly, they now have to also acknowledge another anniversary - that of her death…
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Commentary
The Spirit of Kwamé Turé Lives
Columnist
When people in our movement give unselfishly, and consistently, over the years, like Kwamé, we must never forget them!
Kwam� Tur� (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) was born on June 29, 1941 in Trinidad. He moved to New York with his parents at a young age. We…
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