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Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

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The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898

Back in the day on November 10th, 1898, the Wilmington Race Riot occurred in North Carolina. At least twenty-two blacks were killed by white racist members of the Democratic Party as a municipal coup d’etat was staged. Emboldened by a post-reconstruction general election that brought the party back in power in the …

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Late Thursday night, an accord aimed at resolving the four-month long political impasse in Honduras failed. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya declared the deal effectively dead after disagreements surfaced on the formation of a new “unity” government. Just ten minutes before the end of the Thursday deadline, de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti announced that no Zelaya ministers were named …

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The House of Representatives narrowly passed a healthcare reform bill late last Saturday that had the support of 1 Republican and the opposition of 39 Democrats. Passing with only a 5-vote margin, the bill mandates all Americans have some form of health insurance and that large companies would be forced to offer it to their employees. Those not …

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The Abduction of Calvin Fairbank

Back in the day on November 9th, 1852, Reverend Calvin Fairbank was kidnapped from Indiana and taken to Kentucky. The abolitionist minister was promptly incarcerated in Louisville for assisting the escape of a so-called fugitive slave and her assistant. Fairbank had already been imprisoned previously for similar supposed “crimes,” serving five years of …

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Tragedy struck the nation’s largest military base yesterday in Fort Hood, Texas when an Army Psychiatrist shot 43 people, killing 12 and wounding the rest. He was about to be deployed to Iraq. Already the resulting media blitz is focusing on the greater need for mental health counseling for the extremely high rates of depression, suicide, and violent outbursts …

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California’s water use always makes for interesting conundrums. Starting on November 9th, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will decide whether or not to publicly subsidize plans for a private desalination plant in the city of Carlsbad. The Poseidon Resources firm which is building the plant, has made a request for up to $350 million dollars over the next …

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House Republicans appeared yesterday to address a rally of conservative and tea party activists outside Capitol Hill. As the health care debate continues, House Republican leader John Boehner and Representative Michelle Bachman led denunciations of President Barack Obama’s push for reform. Though the purported focus of the rally was the upcoming debate on the future of the nation’s health …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about Black Public Opinion.

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Tricky Dick Couldn’t be Kicked

Back in the day on November 6th, 1962, Richard Nixon lost the race for Governor of California. Despite the fact that tricky dick had fallen just short of 120,00 votes to his opponent John F Kennedy two years prior in the national Presidential election, his margin of defeat to Governor Brown in the statewide …

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