May 20, 2021
Cover Story
Editorial Board
There will be no peace in the Middle East until the land question is settled, with Palestinians getting justice and respect.
As of this writing, more than 200 Palestinians and 10 Israelis have been killed in the conflict in Gaza. A few days before the conflict began,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Responding in the typical white American narrative of the Mideast “conflict,” President Biden said Israel has “a right to defend itself” from Hamas rockets while speaking to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not mentioning the many Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks this past week.
Now is the time for President Joe Biden to speak out against apartheid in Israel, and for the U.S. to no longer support state-sanctioned violence and…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
behind the fog of war, propaganda and commercialized, biased media coverage, the United States bears an overwhelming share of responsibility for the carnage taking place in Palestine.
The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict.…
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Commentary
Columnist
The disparity in power between the Palestinians and the Israelis can be likened to a lopsided fight between one side armed with slingshots and the other with automatic weapons, artillery, and fighter planes.
The bloody assault on the Palestinians in Gaza would not be as intense and destructive if it were not for the weapons that the U.S. routinely…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Critical race theory has become the latest bogeyman for many right-wingers. A number of conservative cultural critics have been working morning, noon and night in an attempt to discredit proponents of the movement.
Unless you have been in a deeply comatose state, you have probably noticed the profoundly intense battles that have occurred over the issue of critical race…
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Commentary
Columnist
If White Democrats continue to control the decision-making and financial allocation process, with their racial blinders and just expect voters of color to show up at the ballot box, they will have a limited chance of retaining their majorities in 2022.
George Santayana, the eminent Harvard philosopher and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th century, is widely known for his quote, “Those who do not…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
This empire will, over the next quarter-century or so, with a "fixed" court return to only God knows what way of life.
Good Day Justice Breyer My name is Desi Cortez, and on behalf of all Black folks, all 47 million “plus” Afro-Americans, each and everyone of us…
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