Boehner and Netanyahu Wouldn’t Treat a White President Like This

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Saturday January 31, 2015 · 10:52 AM PST

2015/01/31 · 10:52

The decision by House Speaker John Boehner to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress before the Israeli elections is both outrageous and offensive.

Some have even suggested that for American lawmakers to effectively do an end run around President Obama and side with a foreign head of state – and allow that leader to speak before Congress for the sole purpose of embarrassing the president and undermining his policy regarding Iran’s nuclear program – amounts to treason. However, Boehner’s move is by no means surprising. Nevertheless, all of this should leave you wondering if they are treating the president in such a manner because he is black. And you need not wonder for too long.

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Thursday November 29, 2012 · 6:47 AM PST

2012/11/29 · 06:47

There is a straight line linking the human rights struggles around the globe, and the movements of the past with the movements of today. And those who have lived through the U.S. civil rights movement, the teachings of King and Gandhi, and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa believe they have much to teach Palestinian civil society and their nonviolent resistance movement in the occupied territories.

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Friday October 05, 2012 · 7:04 AM PDT

2012/10/05 · 07:04

Let me start off by saying that the Obama-Romney matchup in Denver was the worst presidential debate I’ve ever seen. I started off believing that we have to save the popcorn for Biden v. Ryan next week, and I’ll stick with that assertion.

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Monday July 23, 2012 · 5:48 AM PDT

2012/07/23 · 05:48

Georgia is about to execute a mentally disabled man in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, the state of Georgia will execute a man that everyone agrees is mentally retarded. A state court determined that a decade ago. The execution would violate the U.S. Constitution if carried out, but apparently that standard is not good enough for the Peach State.

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Thursday March 01, 2012 · 6:06 AM PST

2012/03/01 · 06:06

Can corporations be sued in U.S. courts for violations of international human rights law? This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case that may have a profound impact on corporate accountability and human rights in this country.

The case is Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., and the plaintiffs allege that Shell Oil was complicit in human rights abuses in the Ogoni region of Nigeria. Specially, they say that the oil giant worked with that country’s then-military dictatorship in the early 90s to detain, torture and, by way of a trial in a kangaroo court, executed nine Ogoni activists who protested the company’s desecration of the Niger River delta.

David A Love

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Monday February 27, 2012 · 7:37 AM PST

2012/02/27 · 07:37

Originally, this was to be a commentary on the plight of the white middle class, but that demographic no longer exists in America. So, let’s talk about the swindling of the white working class.

And although it has all come to a head in the past few years, it is a story that is years in the making. If Stockholm Syndrome relates to the feeling of empathy that kidnap victims have with their captors, then certainly what we are witnessing today is a Stockholm Syndrome of those on the losing end of American capitalism.

David A Love

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Friday January 13, 2012 · 10:34 AM PST

2012/01/13 · 10:34

The American South can’t seem to shake off the Civil War. Or Jim Crow. And yet, that region of the U.S. is undergoing some dramatic changes. How the South responds to these changes will determine how easily it will enter the modern world and usher out the racial demons of its past.

David A Love

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Friday December 16, 2011 · 1:43 PM PST

2011/12/16 · 13:43

Looking at the police response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Bull Connor would be proud.

What went barely reported recently was that the United Nations has taken an interest in how the United States has dealt with the Occupy folks. Specifically, Frank LaRue, the UN special rapporteur for the protection of free expression, believes that the law enforcement crackdowns against Occupy protesters are a violation of their constitutional and human rights.

Meanwhile, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, noting the assault by police and arrest of journalists in some cities, urged authorities to protect journalists at these protests.

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Monday October 03, 2011 · 11:38 AM PDT

2011/10/03 · 11:38

The execution of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia has outraged many, placing the gruesome and barbaric practice of capital punishment under the microscope.

A black man who at the least was apparently innocent— and at most definitely innocent— was executed despite serious questions about his case. Most of all, there was ample evidence that Davis was not the man who killed Mark MacPhail, a white off-duty police officer in 1989.

David A Love

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Thursday July 21, 2011 · 7:46 AM PDT

2011/07/21 · 07:46

The only thing more remarkable than the news of the Rupert Murdoch hacking-bribery scandal itself is the rate of its unraveling—and Murdoch’s unraveling. For this international kingmaker and media mogul— who built an empire on yellow journalism and destroying the lives of others— it seems rather fitting that his fall from grace would take place under such sensationalism and salaciousness.

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Sunday June 12, 2011 · 8:40 AM PDT

2011/06/12 · 08:40

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's speech before the U.S. Congress, it was clear that there will be no peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians. And maybe that's not such a bad thing, to know where things really stand.

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Friday June 10, 2011 · 3:05 PM PDT

2011/06/10 · 15:05

Many commentators and observers, including this writer, argued for a far more aggressive and comprehensive strategy from the White House for getting America out of its economic morass. Obama's team chose a half-hearted, half-assed stimulus package, and the result is what we see today. Don't get me wrong, the stimulus helped. But it is running out, and you can see the effects that the empty well is having on state and local governments as they proceed to cut education and essential social services and programs.

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