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Iraq's 'National Sovereignty Day' is U.S.-Style Hallmark Hype

by Jeremy Scahill

July 01, 2009


The puppet government in Iraq has named June 30 as "National Sovereignty Day," and-without mentioning the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis maimed, killed, tortured or made refugees by the US invasion   Read more

The Color of the Race Problem Is White

by Robert Jensen

July 01, 2009


VIDEO: Even decades after the significant achievements of the civil-rights movement and with an African-American president -- it is still appropriate to describe the United States as a white-supremacist society ...   Read more

Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Racialization, Ideology and the 'Imagined Latino Community'

by Victor M. Rodriguez Domínguez

June 29, 2009


Are “Latinos” just another temporarily racialized group on its way to becoming mainstreamed (which in the U.S. means white)?   Read more

Ask The Political Lady: Caring Advice For The Societally Disemboweled

by Susie Day

June 26, 2009


You could die alone in the gutter – OR you could die in a $7,000-a-day hospital bed, [with] high priced doctors and loving medical equipment. That's what it means to live in a Democracy, dear: you get choices.   Read more

North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink

by Michael Parenti

June 24, 2009


Having been pushed to the brink for so long, the North Koreans are now taking a gamble, upping the ante, pursuing an arguably "sane" deterrence policy in the otherwise insane world ...   Read more

The War Party and its Faux-gressive Minions

by Cindy Sheehan

June 22, 2009


What Pelosi and her Wrecking Crew did last week was disgraceful, but it’s shameful that people who opposed the exact same policies under BushCo support the same crimes of ObamaCo.   Read more

SleptOn.com Brings You Black Agenda Report Radio

by Glen Ford

June 17, 2009


1. ObamaCare: A Non-Existent Health Plan That Begins with Cuts
2. Bwana Obama, with Trinkets for Zimbabwe
3. Free the Cuba Five, Mr. President
 
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The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro

by Frederick Douglass

July 01, 2009


In a speech delivered before the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society on July 5, 1852, Douglass powerfully exposes the hypocrisy of asking a slave to celebrate the Fourth of July.   Read more

Finding a Stubborn Hope to Live in a Dead Culture

by Prof. Robert Jensen

June 29, 2009


Rather than saving the dominant culture, our task is not only to let it pass from the scene but to hasten that transition.   Read more

Kicking The Nuclear Habit

by Lawrence S. Wittner

June 24, 2009


With President Barack Obama and other world leaders now talking about building a nuclear-free world, it is time to consider whether that would be a good idea.   Read more

Homegrown Terrorists Next Door

by Bill Berkowitz

June 22, 2009


“We’re looking at a kind of perfect storm of factors that really favor the continued growth of these groups.”   Read more

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No More Pretense for Health Reform

by Kevin Zeese

June 19, 2009


The CBO scored the Kennedy-Dodd proposal, the most robust of the reform proposals actually being considered, and the bottom line is that it will leave 36 million without coverage a decade from now.   Read more

SleptOn.com Brings You The Real News Network

by The Real News

June 17, 2009


Canadian health care: Fact vs. fiction   Read more

Stealing Iran

by Juan Cole

June 17, 2009


"Ahmadinejad reelected under cloud of fraud," where I argue that the outcome of the presidential elections does not and should not affect Obama's policies toward that country   Read more

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