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Jamal: Mayday Amidst Global Mayhem
Blog Post, April, 12 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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As May approaches, the day celebrated for over a century as an emblem of workers power, (May Day), seems to have become a symbol of its fall.
Jamal: A Glitch -- Not a Hitch
Commentary, March, 29 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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Newscasters blare, with an air of gloom and doom, of serious threats to the U.S. - Israeli relationship.
Jamal: A "Democracy" Without Democracy
Blog Post, March, 10 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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It would be impossible to overstate the energies unleashed during the 2008 election.
Abu Jamal: Corporate Supremacy -- Still!
Commentary, March, 07 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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The recent Supreme Court decision on corporate personhood, The Citizen's United case, has evoked considerable comment, and even some indignation: "Corporations have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians?!" - "outrageous!"
Abu-jamal: Howard Zinn, Master Historian
Commentary, February, 04 2010
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
It should surprise no one when a man, nearly 90, dies. It is as natural as moonlight, as regular as a rainbow after a summer shower.
Abu-jamal: Haiti's Suffering
Commentary, January, 30 2010
Mumia Abu-jamal
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As we near two weeks after the devastating earthquake and terrifying aftershocks in Port-au-Prince and Zacmel, Haiti, we face the inevitable media wall, that closes up, unless a story emerges of such surprise and delight that it's able to shine th...
Abu-jamal: More 'Bad Intel'?
Commentary, January, 23 2010
Mumia Abu-jamal
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The recent near miss on Christmas Day in Detroit, has sparked a presidentially-mandated reappraisal of the failures of American intelligence which made this disaster so possible.
Abu-jamal: Just War? Or Just War...
Commentary, January, 03 2010
Mumia Abu-jamal
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Politics, it is said, makes strange bedfellows -- but the Nobel Peace Prize may make even stranger ones.
Jamal: The Limits of Our Politics
Blog Post, December, 28 2009
Mumia Abu Jamal
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As millions come to grips with the claimed agreements emerging from the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, it's impossible to resist the suspicion that politics can provide no solution to the serious environmental and ecological problems fac...
Abu-jamal: Wealth Care
Commentary, December, 27 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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As Congress wrestles over the parameters of a health care bill, amidst maddened catcalls of 'death panels' and 'socialism!', I am reminded of the experience of John Black, an old trade unionist, revolutionary activist and journalist.
Abu-jamal: Children Behind Bars
Commentary, December, 08 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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Those familiar with my work will recall the corruption cases from Pennsylvania's Luzerne County where judges sent children to jail, so they could profit from kickbacks and fees from the builder.
Abu-jamal: Colonies Still?
Blog Post, November, 21 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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One of the greatest theorists, analysts and critics of colonialism was the late Martinican psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, but Dr. Fanon's work dwelled on the crises of colonialism in Africa.
Abu-jamal: Fort Hood
Commentary, November, 16 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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Once again, an American soldier has gone on a rampage, shooting other American soldiers. What makes this news even more remarkable than usual is the fact that the shooter is more than a soldier -- he's a doctor -- and a psychiatrist!Oh -- and he's...
Abu-jamal: Barack Obama: Nobel Laureate
Commentary, October, 29 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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The award of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack H. Obama, evoked gasps of shock in Stockholm, Sweden, and both praise and catcalls in America.
Abu-jamal: The Afghanistan Trap
Commentary, October, 16 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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The Afghanistan war is due for a recycling, but it may not go the way the U.S. has planned.
Abu-jamal: G20 Speech
Audio, September, 29 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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From Death Row...
Abu-jamal: Imagine Being Van Jones
Commentary, September, 22 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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A young Black man, a graduate of one of the best law schools in America (Yale), who, from a poor family, uses his gifts and energies not to make a buck for Wall St. or Dow Jones, but to make a difference in his neighborhood of Oakland, California,...
Abu-jamal: Health Care = 'I Don't Care'
Commentary, September, 03 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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As the White House and Congress square off on health care, take care, because the deals with the big dogs have been made -- and the people will be -- once again -- left holding an empty bag.
Abu-jamal: The San Francisco 8 -- No More!
Commentary, July, 30 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
It's been 2 1/2 years since the San Francisco 8 -- eight former members of the Black Panther Party -- were cast into California jails and threatened with life sentences stemming from the 1971 shooting of a cop.
