Issue: 810
Mar 19, 2020
Cover Story
Warfare and Healthcare
Editorial Board
Wall Street, the banking industry, the military complex receive a form of socialism that is unfair and unequal. In other words, undemocratic because it leaves the lives of the 99% to the whims of a capitalist market. On the other hand, it’s not likely that proponents of democratic socialism would pander to war profiteers or politicians and their corporate enablers calling for regime change or the manufacturing of weapons to sell to law enforcement and other nations whether friend or foe.
Overnight they found $1.5 trillion for Wall Street, but they can’t find money to provide healthcare & living wages for 140 million poor & low wealth…
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Commentary
Why Older Black People Support Biden – The Invisible Woman
Editorial Board
all too often, it seems as if we (older Black people) are only an afterthought. I cannot count the hundreds of events I’ve attended to support progressive causes where I’ve been the only older Black person in the room.
What’s happening in the Democratic Party saddens me. If Joe Biden secures the party’s nomination it will have been because of one demographic – older Black…
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Commentary
Trump is a Failure – Solidarity America
Columnist
It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same.
President Donald Trump is a failure and that makes him a loser, but worse, it makes the U.S. a loser. Trump's response to the coronavirus, has…
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Commentary
Biden-Abrams Duo to White House
Columnist
Biden needs to formally announce his appointment of Abrams as his running mate soon so as to quell any concerns about his intentions and to further mobilize and solidify his backing from female voters. He likewise needs to continue treating Bernie Sanders with the utmost respect while he extends his lead in delegates. It is imperative that he do so in order to be able to reach out to Bernie’s supporters.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed to choose a woman as his running mate, and per the recommendation of Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), that person…
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View from the Battlefield
What Price are the Democrats Willing to Pay
Editorial Board
If one is of sound mind, you know there’s nothing radical or revolutionary about the Democratic Party. Calling it a progressive party is being generous. I know all of this, but I was still hopping mad when I saw the invisible hand of the party manipulate the process to ensure a clear path to the White House for Uncle Joe.
With the coronavirus looming on the nation like a heavy shroud, most folks have probably forgoten about the super conniving by the Democrats. For those who…
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Commentary
Shirley Chisholm – Unbought & Unbossed
Guest Commentator
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone.
On January 25, 1972 Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's Twelfth District announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She became the…
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