Archiv vom August 2014

  [col. writ. 8/6/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 As guns, rockets and bombs from fighter planes, go silent, the real war begins between the apartheid state, Israel, and the embattled occupied state of Hamas, on behalf of the captives of Gaza.
This is the war of words.
How can we say that words are more real than bombs?
Because, under the pressure of Arab states, the U.S., and […]

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 [col. writ. 8/3/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 
As an ineffectual Congress gives voice to howling throngs decrying the influx of Central American children, it’s helpful to learn that this is not a new feature of American immigration; but as old as the country itself.
From the time of the first European colonial settlements in North America, there was a tendency to declare these arrivals natives, while […]

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