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Why Blue Collar Whites Vote Against Themselves
Election pundits have repeatedly asked why Barack Obama has trouble attracting blue collar Whites as if he created the problem and could solve it. Hillary is seldom asked why Blacks don’t vote for her, a problem she could solve. But it is interesting why blue collar Whites consistently vote against themselves, supporting Republicans who care little about their problems.
Praising Jimmy Carter’s Middle East Efforts
One does not have to agree with former President Jimmy Carter on everything in order to appreciate the wisdom and courage of his stand on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. His most recent efforts to reach out to the Palestinian Islamist resistance movement Hamas are a case in point.
Cyclone kills over 22,000 people in Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar - Hungry crowds of survivors stormed the few shops that opened in Myanmar's stricken Irrawaddy delta, where food and international aid has been scarce since a devastating cyclone killed more than 22,000 people, the U.N. said Wednesday.
Arkansas cleanup in aftermath of deadly tornados
DAMASCUS, Ark.  - Smoke rose from burning heaps of wreckage as residents of rural Arkansas cleaned up what was left of their homes after deadly tornadoes scoured a state that has been plagued by severe weather this year.
A Tragic Injustice: Judge acquits officers in shooting death of Sean Bell
NEW YORK - The streets of New York City remain quiet after the acquital of NYPD detectives who fired 50 shots, killing unarmed Sean Bell and wounding two of his unarmed friends. But the Rev. Al Sharpton and other activists vow to shut the city down through acts of civil disobedience. “We strategically know how to stop the city so it will stand and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed innocent civilians with no probable cause,” the Rev. Sharpton told a standing room only gathering.
America’s mindset and questions of justice
The recent verdict in the Sean Bell shooting case in New York would be shocking, if American history wasn’t drenched in the blood of murdered innocents and legal verdicts that sanctioned such killings.
In wake of acquitals, anger simmers New York
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - When the word of Justice Arthur Cooperman’s “not guilty” verdict reached the crowd outside the Queens Supreme Court, shouts of “No! No! No!” erupted immediately. The family of Sean Bell, along with the two wounded friends of the slain father of two little girls, and the Rev. Al Sharpton quietly walked own Queens Boulevard.
Rev. Wright: Media coverage was attack on the Black church
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - An “unashamedly Black” and “unapologetically Christian,” Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright kicked off the opening of the two-day Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference April 28 at the National Press Club. Before a standing room only audience, Dr. Wright responded to recent news about him and sound clips from his sermons.
No end to demonization of Obama?
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The demonization of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)—who has gone from once being labeled “not Black enough” to earn the support of Black voters—to being depicted for White voters as being “too Black,” seems destined to continue all the way to the November general election.
Rev. Jackson shines a light on Haiti crisis
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson left for Haiti April 26 to tour the debt-ridden nation gripped in a food crisis. With ministers and Haitian nationals as part of his delegation, he also hoped the media would follow. “Haiti is out of sight and out of mind,” Rev. Jackson told The Final Call.
U.S. military accepts more ex-felons
WASHINGTON - The few, the strong, the brave and some convicted felons could well describe today’s Marine Corps. In the Army, more convicted felons can be all they can be too, as all branches of the military relaxed their standards allowing 861 felons to join the ranks in 2007.
Prisoners drugged during U.S. interrogations?
(FinalCall.com) - “The forced medication of detainees without their consent, either for interrogation or as a chemical restraint, is an affront to the very foundations of medical ethics,” said Leonard Rubenstein, president of Physicians for Human Rights.
Baltimore sludge ‘Tuskegee’ experiment?
WASHINGTON - Maryland environmental and civil rights leaders condemned federally funded studies to find a cheap way to clean up lead-contaminated soil that put fertilizer made from treated human and industrial waste on the lawns of East Baltimore row houses and a vacant lot near a school in East St. Louis, Ill. All of the exposed homes and the school were in poor, Black neighborhoods.
Report: Racial profiling rampant in Arizona
PHOENIX - Arizona Department of Public Safety officers are more likely to search Blacks and Lations than White people, even though on average Blacks and Latinos were less likely to have illegal items, according to a recent report.
Angry over raids, Black barbers demand investigation
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Making a point of the historical importance of barbershops and beauty parlors in Black communities, a group of barbers, church leaders and community activists across the Inland region and the nation want a federal probe of April raids targeting six mostly Black-owned Moreno Valley business establishments early.
SWAT teams and helicopter patrols in Chicago
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - In a three-week span over 50 people were shot and 15 have died in several episodes of gun violence. Some fear preventive measures and programming are being trumped by heavy-handed law enforcement.
Do Blacks still believe in the American Dream?
What is the American Dream? MetLife said Americans generally define the American Dream as financial security, family and freedom from want. Blacks were more likely than others to include a comfortable retirement and successful career when defining the American Dream, MetLife said.
A native son returns to help his people
Calherbe Muhammad was sent to the United States some 17 years ago by his family to attain an education to help him return one day to be a help to his people.
Thousands mourn cameraman slain by Israeli missile
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (IPS/GIN) - Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, was killed in mid-April while filming Israeli tanks as they fired missiles in Gaza. It was the 23-year-old cameraman’s job to go to the scene of Israeli bombings. Mr. Shana had also been injured in August 2006 in the north of the Gaza Strip in an Israeli missile attack. This time, though, he wasn’t lucky enough to survive.
High food prices revive Egypt's opposition parties
CAIRO, Egypt (IPS/GIN) - Egypt’s opposition parties have found renewed strength following a nationwide protest against skyrocketing food prices.  “April 6 was a watershed in the history of Egypt,” said Magdi Hussein, secretary-general of the Socialist Labor Party. “It will be studied by future students of political science.”
Female lawmakers shift legislative priorities
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (IPS/GIN) - A new report by the Geneva-based Inter Parliamentary Union has shown that women are changing the priorities and sometimes the tone of legislatures around the world.
New cabinet faces tough road in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya (IPS/GIN) - Kenya’s largest cabinet ever was sworn in April 17, and includes members of President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement.
Ex-U.S. Army engineer charged with spying for Israel
NEW YORK - A former U.S. Army mechanical engineer was arrested Tuesday on charges he slipped classified documents about nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli Consulate who also received information from convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard, authorities said.
Israelis snub Carter, refuse to help with security
JERUSALEM (IPS/GIN) - Three decades after Jimmy Carter brokered the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country, the former U.S. president has become persona non grata in the Jewish state.
 


  
 

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