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Issue: 72

January 8, 2004

Commentary

The Serpent in the Garden

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Honest, well-intentioned people begin the New Year with resolutions. Bush Republicans start every year as they ended the last, with outrageous lies. Black mercenaries in the service of corporate dollars are available on any date to say anything, no matter how nonsensical, as long as they get paid. Thus the Sunday, January 4 edition of…

Honest, well-intentioned people begin the New Year with resolutions. Bush Republicans start every year as they ended the last, with outrageous lies. Black mercenaries in the…

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Commentary

e-Mailbox: Baltimore ain’t Tel Aviv and more…. Issue 72

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

At some point in recent history the U.S. corporate media, formerly mere racist butt-kissers to the powerful, abandoned the profession of journalism entirely to become active agents of disinformation. Nowhere is this more evident than in the criminal conspiracy that poses as American press coverage of Haiti’s 200th anniversary as the first Black republic on…

At some point in recent history the U.S. corporate media, formerly mere racist butt-kissers to the powerful, abandoned the profession of journalism entirely to become active…

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Commentary

Wal-Mart and the Economic Destruction of Black Communities

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

The retailing giant Wal-Mart must be nirvana for Black people. Its commercials, full of sentimental background music, soft focus photography, and earnest looking real people give the impression that it is just short of heaven on earth. I have seen commercials showing a Black mother exhorting her daughter to pursue a career at Wal-Mart. In…

The retailing giant Wal-Mart must be nirvana for Black people. Its commercials, full of sentimental background music, soft focus photography, and earnest looking real people give…

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Commentary

War, Race and Elections

By Stan Goff

(2) that someone other than Iraqis has to oversee their future to prevent some amorphously defined but nightmarish post-Ba’athist reckoning. The first notion about Bush lunacy and multilateralism fails to understand what the actual history and nature of so-called multilateralism is, which is a form of cooperative plunder by the Euro-American and Japanese North waged…

(2) that someone other than Iraqis has to oversee their future to prevent some amorphously defined but nightmarish post-Ba'athist reckoning. The first notion about Bush lunacy…

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