Issue: 819
May 21, 2020
Cover Story
The D.C. Swamp Keeps Getting Murkier Each Day – Solidarity America
Columnist
There is one thing on Trump's mind: himself. His mental derangement, just considering his malignant narcissism, long ago became a danger to the U.S. and to the world. He has used the power of the nation to stride across the globe, wreaking havoc wherever he goes, as the rest of the world stands in awe that a country like the U.S., once the leader of the world in most things, could put such a creature in charge of anything, let alone the fate of his country and much of the world.
The swamp that Donald Trump was to have cleaned up in Washington seems to epitomize the murky brain and persona of the president, himself, as he…
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Commentary
Old, Sick and Incarcerated
Editorial Board
Prisons are overcrowded with social distancing an impossibility since an average cell, about five feet by five, does not allow six feet of distancing. Recent studies show that the COVID19 germs from a loud conversation or a cough linger for minutes, sufficient time to infect another person. The notorious Riker's Island prison has eight times the COVID19 infection rate of the New York City rate. Infection is not a possibility, but a near-certainty. Prison infections are so widespread that some activists describe them as "death camps."
There were 4623 incarcerated people over 65 in federal prisons during the first week of May. Until May 12, Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's one-time campaign manager,…
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Commentary
From Gaslighting to Ethnic Cleansing
Editorial Board
Any acknowledgment of African American existence must first go through whites in control of the neoliberal narrative and who, in turn, provide the model “ideal” African Americans for other whites to accept as authentic, legitimate, human.
Salman Rushdie, Belonging & Unbelonging with Chris Hayes Any acknowledgment of African American existence must first go through whites in control of the neoliberal narrative and…
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Commentary
Abrams, Obama, Practice, Politics
Columnist
The Democrats again appear fixated on competency and the wrongheaded belief that the public is fed up with Trump’s boorish and dictatorial behavior, the same naïve view that led Hillary to defeat in 2016. They again refuse to believe that Trump is a formidable rival, and that he will do anything to prevail.
If not for the coronavirus epidemic, it is likely that Trump would have already run away with this race. As Biden’s decision on his female choice…
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Commentary
African Liberation Day Celebration: Part I – Worrill’s World
Columnist
The idea of ALD has its origins in the long history of African people to break free of the yoke of European domination and white supremacy. This is a time in which we emphasize our oneness as a people with a common past, common set of problems, and a common future.
This is the first of a two-part article on the origin and development of African Liberation Day (ALD). The celebration of African Liberation Day (ALD) in…
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