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Jamal: Incarceration Nation
Commentary, February, 06 2012
Mumia Abu Jamal
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For the first time in nearly 3 decades, I join you, free from a death sentence
Jamal: With More Black Political Leaders Since Reconstruction
Commentary, August, 28 2011
Mumia Abu Jamal
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Sadly, more Black Politicians does not equal more black political power
Jamal: Drugs & Taxes
Commentary, July, 17 2011
Mumia Abu Jamal
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In Mexico, drugs have destroyed the state
Jamal: Rebels In Every Nation
Commentary, March, 18 2011
Mumia Abu Jamal
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As pro and anti-government forces battle for supremacy in the cities and deserts of Libya, in North Africa, the tenor and tone of U.S./Western reporting puts the lie to the often heard claim of journalistic objectivity.
Jamal: COINTELPROs: Then and Now
Commentary, March, 13 2011
Mumia Abu Jamal
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Written for the People’s Hearing on Racism and Police, Oakland, California, February 19 and 20, 2011
Jamal: EGYPT: A Good Beginning
Commentary, February, 22 2011
Mumia Abu Jamal
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The events in Egypt of the past few weeks have raised more questions than answers, and while things seem in a state of flux, some things are clear...
Jamal: War Crimes & Wikileaks
Commentary, January, 20 2011
Mumia Abu Jamal
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Among the maniac right, calls have come for the assassination of Julian Assange, of Wikileaks fame.
Jamal: The State and Repression
Commentary, October, 23 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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Speech Delivered to International Anti-Repression Congress...
Jamal: Wikileaks and the Imperial Press
Commentary, August, 15 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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The release of some 70,000 + files from the Afghanistan War has been treated by most corporate media as, at best, a minor irritant, and worst, an act of treason.
Jamal: The Mehserle Trial
Commentary, July, 26 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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The manslaughter verdict returned against former BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cop, Johannes Mehserle, for the videotaped murder of Oscar Grant, sent hundreds of protesters back into the hot streets of Oakland, California, Grant's hometown.
Jamal: Generals & Presidents
Commentary, July, 02 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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The recent Obama-McChrystal tete'a-tete, which resulted in the general submitting his resignation (and the president accepting it) is but an historical echo from conflicts between the army and its civilian leaders, for generations.
Jamal: Tea Parties and Fear of the Future
Commentary, May, 19 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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For every event in society, there are at least two sides; the side seen; and the side unseen.
Jamal: Time Bombs
Commentary, April, 28 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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For many, the very mention of 'Bombs' puts one in mind of attacks by terrorists -- although, in fact, the most well-known such attack, 9/11, wasn't a bombing at all, but a series of plane-hi-jackings which were used to target symbols of wealth and...
Jamal: Not Since Bush v. Gore
Commentary, April, 18 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal
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Few Supreme Court cases have evoked the sentiments unleashed by the Citizens United decision. Not since Bush v. Gore, have we seen so clearly that politics decides cases — not law.
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.
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
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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.
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: 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: 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
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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.
Abu-jamal: "I Fight Against Being Here, But I Am Here" | Journalism in Hell
Commentary, July, 07 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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While a young reporter for a local NPR affiliate, housing was my beat...
Abu-jamal: Race, Racism & the Sotomayor Nomination
Commentary, June, 07 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
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It would be easy to describe the present faux controversy over the nomination of 2nd Circuit of Appeals Court judge, Sonia Sotomayor, to the U.S. Supreme Court as media-generated, and thus, unreal.
