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Issue: 73

January 15, 2004

Commentary

Dr. King’s Global Vision: Today’s Missing Ingredient

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Click to view entire MLK cartoon tribute Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the star among many heroes in the demise of Jim Crow, the century-long twilight between slavery and the achievement of full Black U.S. citizenship rights. This leap out of purgatory – an incredible, decade and a half rush of political adrenaline –…

Click to view entire MLK cartoon tribute Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the star among many heroes in the demise of Jim Crow, the century-long…

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Commentary

The Death Penalty: Justice – or Just Us?

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

On January 6, 2004 the state of Arkansas executed 44-year old Charles Singleton, who was convicted of stabbing a grocery store clerk to death in 1979. He was on death row longer than any other Arkansas inmate. The Singleton case was not unusual in and of itself. Singleton was Black and his victim, Mary Lou…

On January 6, 2004 the state of Arkansas executed 44-year old Charles Singleton, who was convicted of stabbing a grocery store clerk to death in 1979.…

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Commentary

Haiti’s Cracked Screen

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Money is power and power is money. The Bush administration buys and sells political constituencies every day in pursuit of world domination. Haiti, which recently celebrated its bicentennial as the world’s first black republic, is not otherworldly or immune from purchase. Softening the ground for the transaction is the corporate media that…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Money is power and power is money. The Bush administration buys and sells political constituencies every day in pursuit of world domination. Haiti,…

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Commentary

U.S. Monetary Imperialism and the War on Iraq

By Arjun Makhijani

The following article, written in late April 2003 shortly after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, remains a valuable guide to the underlying causes of the current American offensive against world order. Dr. Makhijani is one of many voices, seldom heard in American media, calling for broad discussion of the new arrangements that are…

The following article, written in late April 2003 shortly after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, remains a valuable guide to the underlying causes of…

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Commentary

‘America, You Must Be Born Again’

By Stewart Burns

Click to view entire MLk tribute image The following article appears in the January issue of Sojourners Magazine. Martin Luther King Jr. made his first public statements against the Vietnam War in the summer of 1965. But harsh attacks from the White House and the press, coupled with lack of support from most of the…

Click to view entire MLk tribute image The following article appears in the January issue of Sojourners Magazine. Martin Luther King Jr. made his first public…

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