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To all the twits:Twittledeedumface is lying to you, or haven't you all figured that out yet. I guess if you're the type of people who still haven't figured out that Obama has sold us all out, then you also haven't figured out yet that this website sends information about you all over the planet for a few shekels profit, and sends messages to your friends and to total strangers asking them to let you(you? Me? WHO??) 'add them as a friend' in order to continue to expand this cluster poke that they

The interesting thing is that these three women will likely not appreciate my mentioning them all together, at once. They seem to be estranged from one another now, which is a damn shame. We writers grow old, time passes, circumstances drive us apart, and our friendships wither, decline, they even die premature deaths.And every dead friendship is a premature death, is it not? For love, comradeship, and affection to pass away, for these things to cease to pass between us and for them to leave bef

Everyone it seems has, by this point, had their say about the 'fascistic' nature of Rap music. Cultural nationalists have an axe to grind against Lil' Wayne, against newly minted woman batterer, Chris Brown, and of course against the usual suspects like Fifty Cent, There are various ways to look upon the special brand of cultural anxiety and of cukltural distortion that attends drastic oppression. Not all opf those wyas of seeing are productive, though every single one of them is in the end, rat

Closing the circle of abolition and restitution with reparations:Corrective economic justiceBy Minister Ari S. Merretazon, M.S.CEDBritain abolished the slave trade 200 years ago. Its landmarks are an abiding legacy of cruelty. Before the 18th century, very few White men and women questioned the morality of slavery as it was public policy. The Quakers were among these few. However, it was the Black resistance and rebellions that destroyed chattel slavery. Abolitionists facilitated and resourced t

"The chattering classes still blame desperate borrowers for not reading the fine print, but perhaps they should reserve some vitriol for Wall Street's watchdog. If there's one lesson the commission should have learned long ago, it's that booms aren't fueled by market forces alone, but also by healthy doses of fraud, deception, and unchecked opportunism. And it's invariably everyday folks who pay the price. ‘The SEC, instead of watching Wall Street, insulates it,’ notes Aguirre. ‘The subprime iss

IntrodsuctionEight years ago while giving a lecture on "Changes, continuities and challenges of post-apartheid South Africa" I made a principled observation that no one individual or ethinc or political gorup can be given sole credit for "Freedom and Democracy" in South Africa of 1994, USA Indepdence of July 1776 nor 1964/1965 Civil Rights era victories. This meant that local, national,continental and global alignments and re-alignment of forces produce indivuduals, ethnic and political groups t

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Eight years ago while giving a lecture on "Changes, continuities and challenges of post-apartheid South Africa" I made a principled observation that no one individual or ethinc or political gorup can be given sole credit for "Freedom and Democracy" in South Africa of 1994, USA Indepdence of July 1776 nor 1964/1965 Civil Rights era victories. This meant that local, national,continental and global alignments and re-alignment of forces produce indivuduals, ethnic and political groups

Imagine the following - the nation Martin Luther King called "The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today" may brand democratic Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism if extremist lawmakers on the Hill get their way.On March 12, George Bush accused Hugo Chavez of backing Colombian-based "terrorists" and using Venezuela's oil wealth for an anti-American campaign. He further claimed Chavez has a "thirst for power....of squander(ing his country's) oil wealth....of prais(ing a) terrorist le