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cartoonist Khalil Bendib didn’t set out to draw a holiday greeting card, but his November 28 creation was just so damn good, readers couldn’t help but treat it like one. We’ve been informed that readers have been emailing Feast of the Parasites (one of our informal titles for the cartoon, not Khalil’s) to friends and…

cartoonist Khalil Bendib didn't set out to draw a holiday greeting card, but his November 28 creation was just so damn good, readers couldn't help but…

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Cartoon – Thanksgiving 2002

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Commentary 1 – Bush’s Domestic Enemies List

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They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes. It’s time for the rest of us to get very worried. The evidence is rolling in, and it is unmistakable: the Bush people are assembling purely political lists of individuals and groups to be targeted during some future crisis, real or manufactured. The list…

They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes. It's time for the rest of us to get very worried. The evidence is rolling…

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Black Democrats Urge Media Counteroffensive

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“Very shortly, in order to win close races and advance a pro-working families agenda, Democrats and progressives will be forced to spend time and resources engaging the fastest growing segment of potential base voters – African Americans under age 40.” – Cornell Belcher and Donna Brazile No sooner had the polls closed November 5 than…

"Very shortly, in order to win close races and advance a pro-working families agenda, Democrats and progressives will be forced to spend time and resources engaging…

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Secret Bomber to Probe Secrets of Bombing

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The Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld crowd got drunk one night and decided to play a mad joke on the world. The public had demanded, and the U.S. Congress mumbled in assent, that a commission be selected to investigate the whos, hows and whys of September 11, the secrets behind the mad bombings. So they picked the…

The Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld crowd got drunk one night and decided to play a mad joke on the world. The public had demanded, and the U.S.…

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It is the journalist’s responsibility to bring bad news, and the political analyst’s job to explore the meaning of events. The Bush Administration, acting as a kind of clearinghouse for thieves, threatens to overload the nation’s dwindling chroniclers of political crime. Writer Cheryl Seal’s kind words for our November 21 essay, “War for Private Profit,”…

It is the journalist's responsibility to bring bad news, and the political analyst's job to explore the meaning of events. The Bush Administration, acting as a…

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Analysis: – Poll Shows Black Political Consensus Strong

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African Americans remain in remarkable, consistent agreement on political issues, a shared commonality of views that holds strongly across lines of income, gender and age. The Black Commentator’s analysis of biannual data from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies confirms the vitality of a broad Black Consensus. Most importantly, the data show that…

African Americans remain in remarkable, consistent agreement on political issues, a shared commonality of views that holds strongly across lines of income, gender and age. The…

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Commentary – The Harold Ford Show

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News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail: 856.823.1739 The Publishers of www.BlackCommentator.com are pleased to announce that the Internet publication is now published weekly. BlackCommentator.com now provides commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans, twice as often as before. BlackCommentator.com began as a monthly…

News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail: 856.823.1739 The Publishers of www.BlackCommentator.com are pleased to announce that…

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