When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Friday, December 19, 2003
The Black Commentator is one of the best online magazines I've seen. Straight up and straight forward. Facts, interpretation of the facts, perceptive commentary. For example, the war is not just about war:
Elsewhere, BC writes of the outrage expressed to them after they wrote about Howard Dean's stunning South Carolina speech in which he took note of and rejected the politics of racism.
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
(except the specific sources credited in quotes)
The Black Commentator
The Black Commentator is one of the best online magazines I've seen. Straight up and straight forward. Facts, interpretation of the facts, perceptive commentary. For example, the war is not just about war:
Military spending is a masterful way of taking public funds, collected in taxes from the general population, and funneling them to multinational corporations in the name of 'defense.'--Dedrick Mohammed, guest comentator
The current effort to make Iraq into a U.S. gas station is a great case in point. Congress has approved $87 billion to 'rebuild Iraq.' This is in addition to the $79 billion spent to date on the war. Politically well-connected companies are war-profiteering off military contracts. CEO pay at defense contractors rose 79% from 2001 to 2002, compared with 6% raises at the average company. Their $5.4 million average pay was 577 times as much as the pay of Army privates in Iraq.
Elsewhere, BC writes of the outrage expressed to them after they wrote about Howard Dean's stunning South Carolina speech in which he took note of and rejected the politics of racism.
... A surprising number of readers imagined that BC had predicted Dean would win the South with a non-racial message. We did not. 'Although corporate media called Dean's statement his ‘southern strategy,’ we wrote, 'it is in fact the only position that holds out any hope for a national Democratic victory in 2004 – whether enough southern whites emerge from their racist ‘false consciousness’ or not.'
Our position is that Democrats can and must be prepared to win without the South. The problem has been that national Democratic campaigns are neutered by efforts to pander to white southerners. The Democratic message must be the same, North and South: vote your interests.
Palema
1:41 PM
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