December 17, 2015
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New at Black Agenda Report 17 December 2015: Dems & Repubs Block The Vote, Rich Countries Block Climate Action, Nigeria's Military IS Boko Haram
17 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote — And How We Can Un-Block It by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws Continue reading
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Media Lens: The New McCarthyism – Keep The War Versus Stop The War
Media treatment of the term ‘blowback’, the concept that foreign policy has consequences that rebound on its perpetrators, illustrates a fundamental hypocrisy in ‘the mainstream’. It is fine for approved journalists and commentators to use the word when discussing terrorist attacks, actual or feared, here in the West. But abuse and vitriol will be heaped… Continue reading