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Editorial Board

Larry Pinkney

Guest Commentator

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to view Larry’s interview of October 26, 2012. Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.

262 pieces

Commentary

On Obama’s Empire, The Media, Class, and Color: Time To Fight Back!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Our backs are not merely up against the wall; we are being steadily plastered inside of it. The corporate self-described ‘news’ media of this nation continues its insidious polemical war of disinformation, distraction, and omission against the unemployed, the working poor, and the masses of every day people nationally and globally. The Obama/Biden/Rahm Emanuel administration,…

Our backs are not merely up against the wall; we are being steadily plastered inside of it. The corporate self-described ‘news’ media of this nation continues…

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Leonard Peltier & Mumia Abu-Jamal – Justice Barometers of our Soul

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Welcome to the United States of America, the land of hypocrisy, denial, and subterfuge. Intense economic and race war in fact continues unabated in this nation unabashedly fostered, sadly, by U.S. President Barack Obama, who is himself the aloof and blissfully oblivious target of increasing racial bigotry. What a terrible irony! It is stunning, but…

Welcome to the United States of America, the land of hypocrisy, denial, and subterfuge. Intense economic and race war in fact continues unabated in this nation…

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Historical Revisionism and Selective Memory in ‘America’

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

To revise history is to distort it, which is precisely what the corporate media and so-called ‘educational’ institutions consistently practice in this nation. One of the fundamental reasons why serious progressive political struggle is so difficult in the United States is the never-ending historical revisionism carried out on a daily basis by the media and…

To revise history is to distort it, which is precisely what the corporate media and so-called ‘educational’ institutions consistently practice in this nation. One of the…

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Silence of the Lambs? Liberal Hypocrisy & the Complicity of the Left

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

It’s time to stop pretending. The deafening silence and hypocrisy of liberals and many so-called progressives, and the concomitant complicity by much of the left, in their tacit support for the criminal, smoke & mirror economic policies and ongoing war strategies of the Obama / Biden administration is absolutely indefensible. Moreover, those who espoused so-called…

It’s time to stop pretending. The deafening silence and hypocrisy of liberals and many so-called progressives, and the concomitant complicity by much of the left, in…

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Obama is No Sell Out: Just the Empire’s Latest Puppet

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The politicos of the Republican party wolves and the Democratic party foxes [i.e. the Republicrats] are in actuality continuing business as usual, invariably at the expense of the masses of everyday people, with the willing, able, and invaluable assistance of their current puppet Barack Obama – “the smooth…tricky fox.” The American Heritage College dictionary defines…

The politicos of the Republican party wolves and the Democratic party foxes [i.e. the Republicrats] are in actuality continuing business as usual, invariably at the expense…

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Reverend Edward Pinkney: A Champion of the People

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“…We believe that every community has the right to define, determine and control institutions, so that they reflect the integrity of the people.” -Huey P. Newton For well over five years now, Reverend Edward Pinkney (no relation), living in the depths of the de facto apartheid-type township of Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been waging a…

“…We believe that every community has the right to define, determine and control institutions, so that they reflect the integrity of the people.” -Huey P. Newton…

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More of the Same: Obama, the Corporate Media, and the Evisceration of the People

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

In the very name of supposed “change,” the Obama / Biden administration and the slimy U.S. corporate media, in concert with its same age old corporate bosses, have brought the people of this nation a continuation of double speak & hypocrisy, massive economic disintegration, illegitimate wars abroad, and no universal, single-payer health care. For approximately…

In the very name of supposed “change,” the Obama / Biden administration and the slimy U.S. corporate media, in concert with its same age old corporate…

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Blowback, Plausible Deniability,and the Myth of American Democracy

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Notwithstanding the utter hypocrisy, and patently unethical and amoral reality of the United States government’s consistently, aggressively, and covertly involving itself deeply in the internal affairs, destabilization and bloody overthrow of other people’s governments around the world; more often than not the internal and external horrors that “American” civilians suffer are a direct result of…

Notwithstanding the utter hypocrisy, and patently unethical and amoral reality of the United States government’s consistently, aggressively, and covertly involving itself deeply in the internal affairs,…

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The Poverty of the Mind: Hold On, Stay Strong, Carry On

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…Don’t you remember I told you that I’m a soldier in the war on poverty…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…” –Billy Preston— The United States of America is now in a period of not only deepening economic poverty plaguing the masses of Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow peoples but has plummeted…

“…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…Don’t you remember I told you that I’m a soldier in the war on poverty…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…” --Billy Preston— The…

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