In These Times

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• • 01 Oct 08
  • 7:46 am

  The financial meltdown and the proposed mega-bailout for rich thieves and liars simply forces millions of Americans to recognize that the USA is a racist oligarchy, not a true democracy. As America falls politically, economically and spiritually the corrupt ruling elite is rapidly expanding its plans to bleed the middle class and crush the underclass, especially the long-suffering slave descendants, most of whom dwell in inner cities which have devolved into "killing fields." Both McCain and Obama are first and foremost servants of the ruling class who are already locked into commitments to clash with Venezuela and Iran. Ironically Obama, like …

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• • 23 Sep 08
  • 8:07 am

  Thank you, Salim, for a very insightful essay. However, the forty million slave descendants in the USA are victims of long-term U.S. government practices of ethnocide and forced assimilation. Most media, including In These Times, have never addressed the roots of the problem nor the solutions proposed by the Reparations Movement. Non-coverage of the numerous interventions made by Mr. Silis Muhammad of AFRE before the U.N. Human Rights Commission has kept most Americans in the dark about the stark fact that Afrodescendants still do not possess Human Rights and are actually kept in a state of "civil death." In order for …

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• • 22 Aug 06
  • 10:49 am

  Recently Mr. Silis Muhammad, the Chairman of All For Reparations And Emancipation, delivered the following statement to the 12th Session of the U.N. Working Group On Minorities in Geneva: "Greetings Mr. Chairman, Members of the Working Group on Minorities. My name is Silis Muhammad. For well over nine years we have traveled to Geneva. For nine years we have spoken to you about the Afrodescendant people. We know that we are a nation of people: history, all the wise scientists, and you, in your hearts, will bear witness that we, Afrodescendants, are an ancient people who descended from Abraham. We were …

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