Posted on 09 May 2008
In desperation, Hillary Clinton is now explicitly referring to her appeal to “Hard-Working Americans, White Americans,” adding that she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with [...]
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Posted on 08 May 2008
You may have heard of Rev. John Hagee, the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual “sins.” Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians [...]
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Posted on 08 May 2008
By: Jonah Goldberg
True or not, the Clinton campaign has been accused of playing the race card. The irony here, of course, is that Bill and Hillary only have themselves to blame for employing the kinds of political tactics now being used against them.
As the Barack and Hillary Show extended its tour to such off-off-off Broadway [...]
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Posted on 08 May 2008
Now, faced with a mathematical mountain climb that even Stephen Hawking could not ascend, the Clintons — and it is indeed both of them — are just about to paste a bumper sticker on the rear of the collapsing vehicle that carries her campaign. It reads: VOTE WHITE.
That’s the underlying message propping up a failed [...]
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Posted on 07 May 2008
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…..AND IT GOES..
Cartoon Courtesy: STANTIS
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Posted on 07 May 2008
By: Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights advocate — Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
When we were struggling in South Africa against the vicious racist policies of apartheid, it was exhilarating to proclaim to our people that our God was encountered first not in the peaceful quiet of a sanctuary. No, [...]
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Africa
Posted on 30 April 2008
It may sound like a bad joke, but the sad truth is that Africa’s short-lived experiment with democracy faces hard times.
From Nigeria to Zimbabwe, Kenya to the Ivory Coast and Uganda to Cameroon, the writing is on the wall. The experiment with democracy has sadly taken a dangerous nosedive.
Recent political events point to a [...]
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Afro-Insights
Posted on 29 April 2008
Poet Aime Cesaire
Poet Aime Cesaire of Martinique passed away last week. He was an iconic co-founder of Black consciousness, long before Steve Biko.
Surprisingly, of all the non-French speaking African heads of state, only South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki sent a message of condolences to the Cesaire family.
Why the silence?
In the realm of ideas, Mbeki [...]
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Europe
Posted on 23 April 2008
Traditionally, the international community has been reluctant to treat civil strife the same way it does international armed conflict.
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Society
Posted on 08 May 2008
By: Jonah Goldberg
True or not, the Clinton campaign has been accused of playing the race card. The irony here, of course, is that Bill and Hillary only have themselves to blame for employing the kinds of political tactics now being used against them.
As the Barack and Hillary Show extended its tour to such off-off-off Broadway [...]
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The Middle East
Posted on 23 April 2008
By: Dr. Megalommatis Muhammad Shamsaddin (Pictured Below)As the results of Pennsylvania’s primary propel the Democratic campaign into the elections in Indiana and North Carolina, Americans have got to seriously think whether they are going to allow a dangerous person for US national security to claim the Democratic nomination.
It would rather appear odd to portray [...]
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