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American media has a habit of crediting white people for social and cultural trends that had long become commonplace in the black community. For example, when Bo Derek donned her cornrows for the movie “10”, one might have thought that was the first time any woman had worn her hair in that style; when, in… Read more.
If this vacuous stare seems eerily familiar, that’s because it is the now patented look of President Bush’s (groundhog-day) pathology on Iraq… Last night President Bush demanded TV airtime – in the national interest – to tell the American people to stop believing their lying eyes about Iraq. Instead, he wanted them to believe that… Read more.
The perennial conflict between church and state has its roots in the founding principles and governing documents of America. On one side of this conflict are Christian fundamentalists who argue that the tradition of America is that of Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in Europe to establish a country where the practices and symbols of… Read more.
Dennis “BTK” Rader: Looking like the psychopathic serial killer he is! For a while yesterday, the cold-blooded but riveting confession of serial killer Dennis Rader competed with the regurgitation of idle speculation and overwrought comments about (missing in Aruba) Natalee Holloway for air time on TV. But here at last was TV coverage worthy of… Read more.
About 2 months ago, I wrote a fairly comprehensive commentary on the EU plan to cut its banana trade regime. The regime was implemented in the early 1990s to guarantee a market for all the bananas former European colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) could export whilst placing quotas on the amount… Read more.
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Talk Show Billionaire Oprah Winfrey told by Hermes of Paris to take her money and shove it! Poor Oprah: Last week Luxury retailer Hermes refused to allow her into its Paris boutique to do a little last-minute shopping – something Oprah knows well that white celebrities do routinely all over the world. Of course, most… Read more.
Clueless middle school teacher Debra Lafave at her arraignment on child rape and related charges apparently thinking: “I still don’t know what all the fuss is about. I was just teaching the boy a few things. Besides, it’s not like his grades suffered any; I gave him straight A’s.” About a year ago, Middle School… Read more.
During her meetings last Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured him that his plan to bulldoze the homes of Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip was a necessary “historic” step towards the establishment of a Palestinian state and peace in the Middle East. Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, President… Read more.
