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Issue: 632

December 03, 2015

Guest Commentary

Defend the President’s Climate Rules from Republican Attacks – Defend the Planet from President Obama and the Democrats

By Eric Mann Reporting from the Paris Climate Conference Guest Commentator

The President’s positioning for Paris is brilliant but reflective of American Deceptionalism. The President wants to give the impression that he is a visitor or at best a participant in the Paris UNFCCC when in fact he is in charge of it. The U.S. and President Obama are playing a very destructive role at the Paris UNFCCC.

The Republican Senate just voted to reject plans by President Obama and the EPA to dramatically reduce emissions from coal power plants. This is reactionary politics.…

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Color of Law

Second City – Rotten to the Core: Police Chief Is Fired, Community Activists Call for Resignation of Chicago Mayor and State’s Attorney in Light of Laquan McDonald Murder

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

We need bold comprehensive change in the police department and the criminal justice system. Too much time for too little crime.

The Laquan McDonald case is not going away, but rather the movement for justice for the Black teen, executed gangland style by a white Chicago police…

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View from the Battlefield

Always a Foreigner: The continuing struggle for first class citizenship

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Those of us who are so-called U.S. citizens have double duty. We must fight for equity and equality for all the people in this country as well as keeping this government from invading, controlling or destroying the land, resources and people in other lands. Those who live in European countries have the same obligation.

Sometimes I'm challenged to help my readers make connections between local, national and international issues. The U.S. Government is usually at the center of global controversy…

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The African World

The Black Panthers: A Revolution In Review – The Global African

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

December 03, 2015 – Issue 632 var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true}; The Black Panthers A Revolution In Review Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR Mr. Fletcher talks with Director Stanley Nelson, filmmaker and professor about his film, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, and the relevance of the Black Panthers today. Fletcher also…

December 03, 2015 - Issue 632 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; The Black Panthers A Revolution In Review Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR…

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Commentary

Don’t Believe the Holiday Hype

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Why not use these last few weeks of the year to do some of the good we neglected to do earlier in the year? Why not show love, regard, respect through words and deeds, and not through stuff?

The buildup began right after Halloween, when the newspapers got thicker; the advertising inserts longer, and emails touting shopping bargains coming more frequently. Buy! Buy! Buy!…

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Hatching ISIS

Cartoon

Hatching ISIS

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

Connecting the Dots: Cartel Public Education Privatization Surrogates Part III

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Questionable teacher evaluations, school closings, federal under-funding of public education as compared to privatized educational reform, etc. have been robustly implemented with the full backing of Obama, turning a blind eye to the ongoing corruption in corporate charter schools and outright criminality by Cartel-appointed public school superintendents.

Like the Cartel’s Broad-trained and influenced superintendents, there are no more effective proxies for its privatization agenda than the Obama Administration, the grassroots operatives for Cartel…

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