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Nuclear hypocrisy in Iran’s treatment

By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- U.K. helped Israel get nuclear bomb (The Hindu, 03-11-2006) Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Apartheid South Africa (UK Guardian, 02-07-2006)Israel and South Africa: Apartheid's Accidental Prophecy (Global Research.ca, 06-22-2005) As I look at the frantic gyrations in the attempt by the U.S. and Israel to keep Iran from obtaining the ability to process nuclear fuel, I...

New Orleans: Chocolate, Vanilla or Neapolitan?

By George Curry-Guest Columnist- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin opened himself up for a torrent of criticism when he declared in a Martin Luther King Day speech that God wants New Orleans to again be a “chocolate city.” In his speech, he said, “It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans–the one that should...

The FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

By George Curry-Guest Columnist- Few people in history have been as dedicated to civil rights as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In an interview with Playboy magazine, he noted that he worked 20 hours a day, traveled 325,000 miles a year, giving 450 speeches. That grueling schedule alone was enough to take a toll on Dr. King and his family...

America must not fail Liberia for a second time

We would hope that the signal sent by the attendance of U.S. First Lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice at the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was a clear indication that America will not fail Liberia as it did after the 1997 elections. In her interview with BBC, Mrs. Bush said that the Liberians...

Racist attack on Sudanese refugees

Birmingham Visits Cairo(FinalCall.com) - Last week in Cairo, Egypt, between one to two thousand Sudanese refugees camped out in the upper middle-class area of Mohandessin, to protest against the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. According to press reports, the refugees had been there for a little over three weeks. Many of the reports that I read,...

Iraq victory? A gross miscalculation compounded

By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Senator John McCain was recently on television relating that, in the 1970s he had read the Pentagon Papers (that were courageously pilfered from the Department of Defense by Daniel Ellsberg), saying that they contained evidence from high-level sources that there were "gross miscalculations" made in the conduct of the Vietnam War. He also thought that these...

Freedom is not free

By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- During the Thanksgiving holidays, I listened to an interview of Bruce Gordon, the new head of the NAACP, with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's “Questions and Answers” programs. It was an interesting and mostly about Mr. Gordon's life and his perspective on the work of the NAACP. One thing struck me: The budget of the organization is...

The veil is lifted in France as Black and Arab youth rebel

(FinalCall.com) - In the 1960s and '70s, the cities of America were burning under the weight of Black rebellion. The American media called these rebellions riots, but it was Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) and other progressive leaders who preached to the Black community that what was happening in the streets of America were not riots but,...

News Analysis: Farrakhan and the press

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's presence in Washington for the Millions More Movement provided the national press corps with rare access to the Nation of Islam leader. Although the Nation of Islam has rented the ballroom at the National Press Club (NPC) frequently during the last several years, it's been almost a decade since he was...

Katrina: The hurricane of righteous Black anger

By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Iraq war delayed Katrina relief effort, inquiry finds (Independent, 10-02-2005) (FinalCall.com) - The Black community has a right to be angry about the slow response of its government to the human crisis in New Orleans created by Hurricane Katrina. In a recent Gallup/CNN poll, 76 percent (compared to 60 percent of Whites) said they were angry...