October 25, 2018
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Americans are abusive, and they are deep into self-medication abusing prescription drugs, alcohol and everything in between. I foresee medical weed being over-prescribed by doctors as they have done with opioids.
For the first time, Missouri voters will be voting on legalizing medical marijuana. There are three ballot measures, each very different in its approach to who…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The role of historically oppressed groups in perpetuating white supremacy is nothing new. However, the rise of Black and Latino white supremacist gang members and neo-Nazi street brawlers is brand new and deserves our attention.
The notion of Black and Latino men participating in white supremacist hate groups conjures images of Spike Lee’s film “BlacKkKlansman,” a comedic dramatization of the real-life…
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Commentary
Columnist
This president has no capacity to understand that the world, in a global economy, works differently from real estate predators in New York City, where his bravado and braggadocio count for a “good deal.” It doesn't work in the real world, but Trump and his minions in the administration do not seem to realize any of that, and the Republican congress has been convinced or intimidated into complying with the wishes of a know-nothing, as he struts around on the world stage, a pale imitation of Benito Mussolini in the 1920s.
Not to be outdone by his previous string of lies (now extending for about two years), President Donald Trump stood in public this week and, without…
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Commentary
Columnist
Trump is serving as a one man get-out-the-vote (GOTV) machine that is unrivaled by any Democratic leader. He is traveling the country with a vicious and succinct message that demeans immigrants and minorities, emboldens white nationalists, taunts women, promotes white male privilege, and claims that fraudulent voting is rampant among minorities.
As a result, he has been instrumental in closing the eleven point voting enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats to four points during October. The political…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Saudi Arabia’s apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea — or Israel and the United States.
Russia, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia are the latest members of a select international club. Assassins Without Borders has roots that go back, in the modern…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The media is still the “enemy of the people.” Today. No criticism of violent policies or violent regimes is acceptable! Beat journalists up or kill them. The killing of criticism directed at the powerful isn’t news in the world, particularly not news in the US.
Real News: The Perpetrators of Fake News—History! Life is a process; in the process of correcting our own society we save ourselves and activate the forces…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Efforts to ensure that young people have limited access to e-cigarettes and other products that vaporize tobacco are appropriate. Efforts to restrict access to others are ill-advised. If we care about those who are committed to smokers and addicted to nicotine, then we will make it easy for them to access alternatives to smoking. E-cigarettes may change, even save, their lives.
Smoking kills. We’ve all heard the public service announcements, seen the ads featuring hard-breathing people dying from lung cancer. We’ve all heard about what smoking does…
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Commentary
Columnist
As African people in the twenty-first-century, it is imperative that we collectively join and participate in the Reparations Movement as we seek to dismantle white supremacy.
African people throughout the world are uniformly under the yoke of white supremacy. This has created tremendous problems for us as a people. There are solutions…
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