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Issue: 959

June 8, 2023

Color of Law

Black MAGAs Are a Clear and Present Danger

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

As the American conservative movement has morphed from racist dog whistles and white-grievance politics to full-blown fascism and white nationalism, Black MAGAs have enlisted as soldiers in the war against civil rights, voting rights, liberal democracy and racial justice.

Systems of racial oppression and colonization require active participation from members of the oppressed group. This is certainly the case for Black people who conspire with…

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Commentary

Pride Month 2023

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Pride Month Library of Congress

Pride Month Library of Congress

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Guest Commentary

This Pride Month Let’s Remember: Corporations Are Not Allies

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The Target company’s capitulation to homophobes and transphobes is a testament to the dangers of relying on corporations to uphold social justice.

Just days before the start of June, celebrated around the country and world as “Pride month,” Target corporation decided that proudly allying with the LGBTQIA+ community…

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View from the Battlefield

Working People Are the Losers in the Debt Ceiling Agreement

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Apparently, both Parties like living on the edge because there’s always debt—spending more than what’s in the treasury—and they always raise the ceiling. There never seems to be a serious look at the nation’s budget, changing spending needs and wants.

Your president recently signed the bi-partisan legislation which brought the country’s potential default to a screeching halt. After weeks of political posturing and wretched wrangling over…

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Guest Commentary

Myths and Reality: The Power of Nonviolence

By Haley Morrow Guest Commentator

Where violence leaves winners and losers, constructive ends that foster working relationships are never constructed from violence.

A commonly held myth is that war concludes well with peace. In fact, conflict research shows that the losing side may accept defeat in a public-facing…

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Guest Commentary

The Surprising Pervasiveness of American Arrogance

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus Guest Commentator

Americans on the left can be just as blinkered and arrogant as all the figures further to the right that we’ve criticized repeatedly for the same sins.

Henry Kissinger is arrogant. At 100 years old, he still represents all that is smug and imperious about U.S. foreign policy. Donald Trump and his fellow…

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