Archiv vom April 2013

[col. writ. 4/14/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not big on my birthday.
Many years, I forget it entirely.
So, don’t expect a big birthday speech.
But, every so often, I think of a birthday that is hard to forget.
It’s April 24th, 1996, when the President of the United States signed into law an act known as the AEDPA (or Anti-terrorism Effective Death […]

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[col. writ. 4/12/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
  The North Korean military announce a series of missile tests, implicitly suggesting some will (may) be nuclear.
The U.S. press dusts of its red banner headlines and reporters pose as armchair psychiatrists who dutifully diagnose North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong-Un, as crazy.
Sound familiar?
Over a decade ago, the same forces deemed Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, a clever and able politician, […]

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