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Defeatism In Baltimore

Arnold Hamilton - April 30, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP Using the most bloodless terms, an economist explained the failure or inability of so many African-Americans to rise from their impoverished circumstances. They do not respond to the economic incentives that push others to study and strive, he said. Penniless peasants from Central America pile into freight trains to secure any job […]

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Looking For Cesar Chavez

Arnold Hamilton - April 30, 2015 0

BY SHARON MARTIN Public school education is being dismantled in Oklahoma, and we teachers have to accept our share of responsibility for it. We don’t engage...

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The Recurring Nightmare

Arnold Hamilton - April 30, 2015 0

BY VERN TURNER Here we go again. In 1966 my National Guard unit helped suppress the race riots in Cleveland, OH. Before, during and after...

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Corporate Cluster Bomb Over U.S. Sovereignty

Arnold Hamilton - April 29, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also very unhappy with senators like Elizabeth Warren, activist groups like Public Citizen, unions like the Communications Workers of America and … well, with the majority of us Americans who oppose the establishment’s latest free-trade scam. Despite its benign name, […]

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Summer In The City

Arnold Hamilton - April 29, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH What is a major league baseball game without any fans there to cheer? No one selling hot dogs, no one hawking programs, no need for any ushers. Welcome to Baltimore, where the first two games of a three-game series were postponed and the third is to be played with no people, lest […]