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Issue: 812

Apr 02, 2020

Commentary

COVID-19, Race, 2020 Elections

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

COVID-19 is set to be one of the deciding factors in 2020 elections and could determine who controls the U.S. House, Senate, and several state legislatures. Unfortunately, few Democrats are taking this into account in a significant way as they run their races. They continue to misjudge the depths to which Trump will go to win. And the general public accepts it.

Per our note in last week’s column, COVID-19 is becoming a major issue in the 2020 local, state, and national elections. And Donald Trump’s campaign is…

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Guest Commentary

Rage in the Heartland

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

In our dealings with many White people, even those with generally good intentions, the forces of White denial, White fragility and, yes, White supremacy tend to surface unrelentingly.

“His fascist ideal, he said, would resemble the early days in the United States, when power was reserved for landowners.” Many readers of the widely recognized…

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Cover Story

Cooperation, Consideration, Compassion Needed In Fighting Covid-19, Things That Americans Are Not Used To Doing – Solidarity America

By John Funiciello Columnist

The fight against the virus has brought out the best in millions in this country, summoning cooperation, consideration, and compassion on a grand scale. But all those who are exhibiting these fine traits are hampered by the class that rules the nation and its politics. The worst example of this is the president, himself.

When it comes to fighting a pandemic such as coronavirus, or COVID-19, the nation needs volumes of cooperation, consideration, and compassion, all things that the U.S.…

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Commentary

In the Danish Educational System, Learning is Debt-Free and Lifelong!

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

“Denmark’s public and private investment in the development of new qualifications and skills is one of the highest in Europe. The idea is to maintain a highly qualified and well-educated workforce that can succeed in a global knowledge economy.”

It seems like months ago, and it has been for China and some countries in Europe. I remember a week of errands, including shopping for groceries…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Donald Trump – The Most Hated Man in America, and He Doesn’t Even Give a Damn

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Are we witnessing, enduring a deliberate and strategic "cleansing" of those who don’t matter in the summation of the American aristocracy? Can it be the elites who break bread with and kiss the ass of Trump want to see the whittling-down of this nation’s “takers,” the US mainstream who don’t have half a grand in the bank? The pension check receiving elderly. Can it be they don’t give a damn if they’ve earned our hate, because they’ve hated us for eternity?

Donald Trump is, without question, the most hated man in America . . . and for good reason I might add! His deliberate downplaying of the…

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