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BlackCommentator.com Columnist, John Funiciello, is a former newspaper reporter and labor organizer, who lives in the Mohawk Valley of New York State. In addition to labor work, he is organizing family farmers as they struggle to stay on the land under enormous pressure from factory food producers and land developers. Contact Mr. Funiciello and BC.
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American needs a rational debate on a grand scale and it needs to have the people, all of the people, voting at every level.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can…
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Regardless if it’s called an insurrection or a murderous riot, the center of it all was Donald Trump.
Trump the candidate for president said to the American people, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any…
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His poisonous, narcissistic personality and mental health problems, along with his con-man modus operandi, were something that had not been seen in American politics before.
The fabric of the U.S. has been irreparably damaged and much of it has been destroyed by the antics of a very sick individual that we…
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View from the Battlefield
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Wyoming, with a population of 549,914, has two senators, each with one vote in the “upper house,” while California, with a population of 39,780,000, also gets two senators, each with one vote in the U.S. Senate.
City’s top cops are going through the grinder. They are under heavy criticism; some are getting their pink slips. We saw a similar phenomenon when urban…
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As the founders declared of King George, he was “hollowing out the people.” The rich are doing the same thing to the people today.
For some time now, the obscenely rich have begun to express a small amount of alarm about what the disparity between the rich and the poor…
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He has to try to bring together two huge factions of the American electorate across a wide chasm that is made wider every day that Trump remains in the White House.
Some believe that the national nightmare is over, now that President Trump has been shown to be what he has been most of his life, a…
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The four years that the American people have suffered under the regime of Donald Trump is just an inkling of what could come under the full flowering of plutocracy.
There are many examples of the corporate state crushing an individual or a movement and the American people can see it happening just about any day,…
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It’s remarkable how so many Americans can fall for a con-job.
As might be expected, President Trump, fearing that his quest for four more years of destructive behavior emanating from the White House, launched into a crying…
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it is the violent white supremacists, “militias,” neo-Nazis, and others who are perpetrating the violence, but they are given a free pass by the president, who has yet to condemn a single act of violence against an entire people trapped in Gaza and most of the West Bank. For Trump, they simply don’t exist.
The Trump State Department recently held a virtual conference to combat anti-Semitism, but seemingly ignored the threat to American Jews posed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and…
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