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Issue: 90

May 13, 2004

Cover Story

Haitians Seized, Abused by U.S. Marines

By the Haiti Information Project

At 12:30 in the morning of May 10, approximately 20 U.S. Marines executed a military assault on the Port-au-Prince home of 69-year-old Annette Auguste, a.k.a. Souer Anne. Auguste’s residence is part of a compound that includes four other apartments that were also invaded by the U.S. military forces. The troops covered the heads of 11…

At 12:30 in the morning of May 10, approximately 20 U.S. Marines executed a military assault on the Port-au-Prince home of 69-year-old Annette Auguste, a.k.a. Souer…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Hate Speech – OK for Some, Not for Others

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

“Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers To stay home that day” – from “Somebody Blew up America” by Amiri Baraka. “Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to…

“Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers To stay home that day” – from…

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Commentary

e-Mailbox: Farrakhan’s assessment of America and more

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Flocks of chickens are coming home to roost, signaling the Pirates’ inevitable departure from Iraq. The fallout of the Abu Ghraib abomination is yet another example of “blowback”: the unintended consequences of American aggression. In the Seventies and Eighties, U.S. intelligence agencies spent billions of dollars to create the anti-Soviet jihad that metastasized into Osama…

Flocks of chickens are coming home to roost, signaling the Pirates’ inevitable departure from Iraq. The fallout of the Abu Ghraib abomination is yet another example…

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Commentary

From Texas to Abu Ghraib – Doesn’t It Ring a (Prison) Bell?

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This article earlier appeared in Counterpunch. If the president wasn’t so forthright about his disinterest in the world, it would have been hard to believe him last Wednesday when he said the abuse in Abu Ghraib prison “doesn’t represent the America I know.” But who can doubt him? To represent the America George W. Bush…

This article earlier appeared in Counterpunch. If the president wasn't so forthright about his disinterest in the world, it would have been hard to believe him…

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Commentary

Rumsfeld Continues Tradition of White Indifference

By Walter Fields

The following article originally appeared in The NorthStar Network. White men in power rarely apologize for their indiscretions. In fact, in most situations, they manipulate instances in which most of us would feel shame and find ways to profit from their immoral behavior. Just look at the Watergate alumni. Richard Nixon, though resigning from the…

The following article originally appeared in The NorthStar Network. White men in power rarely apologize for their indiscretions. In fact, in most situations, they manipulate instances…

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Commentary

Trickle Down Racism

By John Maxwell

This article first appeared in the Jamaica Observer. Nations are supposed to get the Governments they deserve. I am not sure that any country deserves George Bush; the Americans didn’t elect him President and the Iraqis, over whom he is attempting to rule, obviously don’t want him. In Jamaica there is a saying that “wha’…

This article first appeared in the Jamaica Observer. Nations are supposed to get the Governments they deserve. I am not sure that any country deserves George…

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Commentary

Mandela Blasts US, Britain on Iraq

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Former South African President and Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela made the following speech to his nation’s parliament on May 10th, the tenth anniversary of his inauguration. Madam Speaker, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Deputy Speaker, Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP, Mister President, Deputy President, Members of the Cabinet, Premiers, Honorable Members: We are…

Former South African President and Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela made the following speech to his nation’s parliament on May 10th, the tenth anniversary of his inauguration.…

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