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Jan 30, 2020

Guest Commentary

A Look Back at Seven Centrist Defeats – Why Bernie is More Electable than any Centrist

By Paul Rockwell Guest Commentator

Many voters may be too young (or too old) to remember the sorry record of centrist failures. I am 82 years old, and I have painful memories of seven ignominious defeats of Democratic nominees. And prior to all the nominations, pundits and press insisted that Democrats needed to move the party to the right in order to defeat their Republican adversary. They blamed the misfortunes of the Democratic Party on excessive liberalism.

That assumption has no basis in reality. Even worse, the centrist viewpoint could well lead to another Clinton-like fiasco. Many voters may be too young (or…

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It's a Zoo

Cartoon

It’s a Zoo

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Color of Law

The Australia Fires Portend a Future of Climate Apartheid

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The climate denialism of the rich and powerful is increasing the suffering of the poor and marginalised communities.

It will be a long hot summer in Australia. Fires of almost biblical proportions have swept across the country, devastating land, property and wildlife. More than…

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Cover Story

Hunger And Malnutrition in America Continue to Grow – Solidarity America

By John Funiciello Columnist

it is quite clear that hamburgers, pizza, and french fried potatoes are the best and easiest for all, including children. That's the fare the Trump Administration wants to see on the menu of every school in the country. Highly processed foods are highly desirable,

The famously junk-food-eating president of the U.S. apparently wants millions of children to follow in his footsteps, endangering their health and their development into adulthood, as…

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Commentary

Detractor-In-Chief Overstates Economic Progress

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The Trump growth rates are both a result of ill-advised, deficit-expanding tax cuts, and an inherited record-breaking Obama-era expansion.

Donald John Trump has been impeached, and to let him tell it, that isn’t bothering him, and we’d believe him if he hadn’t posted more than…

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Commentary

Where Are Your Scars?

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The image of the black church singing and preaching is salable whereas the image of a black community that leans socialist threatens the interests of the powerful—no matter how corrupt, how vile and mean-spirited.

The greatest irony and tragedy of all is that our nation, which initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world, is now cast…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Trump has Prostituted Himself for Autocrats and Tyrants Worldwide

By Desi Cortez Columnist

To hell with both the “good book” and the good ol’ US Constitution - those are merely “high n’ all-so-mighty”

It seems the unfolding impeachment soap opera the nation is beholding implode everyday are little more than political “formalities,” mere “rules of convention” or traditional political…

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Commentary

Bloomberg as 2020 Democratic Pres. Candidate?

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

With its broad array of programs—home ownership, criminal justice, black business development, poverty alleviation, etc., Bloomberg’s blueprint, with its $70 billion plus price tag, is the closest to the African American proposal to reparations which no other presidential candidate has come close to replicating.

As Democrats hobble toward their first 2020 presidential competition, there is no clear front runner. The polls are all over the place, and the candidates and…

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