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Obama and McKinney Campaigns for President:
Which Path toward Afro-American Freedom?
In the run-up to the 2008 election for President of the USA
there are two dignified and articulate Black candidates. Both
served in the Halls of Congress as members of the Democratic
Party. Barack Obama is a one-term United States Senator with
previous experience as a state Senator in the Illinois legislature.
Cynthia McKinney is a former six-term member of the U.S. House
of Representatives from the state of Georgia. Both have espoused
the need for change to more “progressive” politics
than being offered by the Bush Administration of war criminals
(and Republican presidential candidate John McCain), including
the need to bring U.S. troops out of Iraq and to improve the
lot of the poor and working class within the USA.
John
McCain’s Chilling Project for America
Posted on Jun 12, 2008
By Elliot Cohen
John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic
group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance
attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple
wars. The credo of this group is “the end justifies the
means,” and the end of establishing the United States
as the world’s sole superpower justifies, in its estimation,
anything from military control over the information on the Internet
to the use of genocidal biological weapons. Over its two terms,
the George W. Bush administration has planted the seeds for
this geopolitical master plan, and now appears to be counting
on the McCain administration, if one comes to power, to nurture
it.
HOW
I AM FOR OBAMA
By Mark Lewis Taylor
Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary
I
knew it was time to write this essay when during a recent
speaking engagement at a Texas college a former student, now
a professor herself there, expressed amazement during a Q&A
session that I was supporting Barack Obama.
OBAMA
- An Analysis
By Larry Holmes
Published May 28, 2008 7:39 PM
May 27—Though still not a certainty at this date, it now
appears likely that Barack Obama will be the Democratic Party’s
presidential candidate and, even less certain but a possibility,
the first Black president of the U.S.
POLITICS-US:
Global Image Buoyed by Prospect of Change
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON,
Jun 12 (IPS) - After a virtually relentless fall during the
seven-year reign of President George W. Bush, Washington's
image abroad rebounded modestly in 2007, according to the
latest edition of the annual Pew Global Attitudes Project
survey of 24 countries released here Thursday.
POLITICS:
Obama Victory Resonates in Race-Conscious U.S.
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON, Jun 4 (IPS) - "Tonight I can stand here and
say that I will be the Democratic nominee for the president
of the United States of America," Sen. Barack Obama told
a crowd of supporters in St. Paul, Minnesota Tuesday, bringing
an effective close to a 16-month Democratic primary process.
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