TheBlackList eNewsletter's Blog – April 2011 Archive (10)

Ohio State University and the Underground Railroad

You thought the old plantation system boasting enslaved African workers creating huge super-profits for the owners and overseers died at the end of the Civil War? Think again.

Regional newspapers and other various media aroused the…

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Added by TheBlackList eNewsletter on April 28, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Muammar Gaddafi: his history, influence on the continent and impact on African and Arab relations

Rundu, Namibia

BFBankie

9^TH HOUR INTERVIEW – THE POWER OF SOUND

Transcript of Namibia Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Radio interview done 5^th April 2011

MR !GOAGOSEB: It is the 9^th Hour on National Radio. My name is Ricardo !Goagoseb and I will be keeping you…

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Added by TheBlackList eNewsletter on April 28, 2011 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

More Reasons The US Is Attacking Libya

From the Ramparts

Junious Ricardo Stanton ~

“The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about…

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Added by TheBlackList eNewsletter on April 26, 2011 at 8:45am — 1 Comment

The Revolutionary Vision of Jesus

Rodney D. Coates* ~

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Fidel Castro

There are many who will condemn me as a heretic –both within the church and among so called progressives – for declaring that Jesus was a revolutionary and had a…

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Jean Damu: The coup in Cote d'Ivoire

Jean Damu ~

April 21, 2011

As peace loving and progressive forces in the West and in the…

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Confessions of an Marxist Ideologue

Rodney D. Coates ~

Well, my colleague (Sam Friedman) has challenged me to identify the Marxist ideologues that I refer to in my most recent blurb. The problem with friends is that they hold us accountable. And if confession, as my Baptist friends constantly remind me, is good for the soul, then let me here and now confess –that yes once I was a Marxist ideologue. Where do I begin –at…

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The Wealth Gap Widens

From the Ramparts

Junious Ricardo Stanton ~

“Incomes and wages are not the only places we find staggering inequality. Wealth—also called net worth, measured as assets less liabilities—is skewed heavily, not only to the rich, but to the richest of the rich. Starting with the bottom fifth of the… Continue

Added by TheBlackList eNewsletter on April 18, 2011 at 1:23pm — 1 Comment

When the accuser has been vilified, tried and already convicted

By Rodney D. Coates

Yesterday, across the U.S. headlines screamed that the “Duke Lacrosse Accuser”, “woman who falsely accused Duke Lacrosse Team” in the …

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Added by TheBlackList eNewsletter on April 6, 2011 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Dancing with the Devil: Lessons from the Libyan Civil War

By Kali Akuno ~

For a generation that has witnessed few genuine people's movements succeed in transforming the nation-states where they reside and engage in bottom up processes of social revolution, the popular uprisings in…

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Added by TheBlackList eNewsletter on April 5, 2011 at 7:08pm — No Comments

The Plot To destroy Social Security

From The Ramparts

by Junious Ricardo Stanton ~



    “You know it’s funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars but they can’t feed the poor.” Tupac Shakur

    The duplicity and hypocrisy of the US government is mind blowing. Doing the bidding of the corporations and special interests who bribe… Continue

Added by TheBlackList eNewsletter on April 1, 2011 at 12:55am — No Comments