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Muhammad continued from Page 22 been overrun, first by Tuareg rebels from the north who deposed Konare’s successor, and then again by another group of rebels affiliated with Al Qaeda. What’s a country to do? Call in the French, that’s what. While the U.S. was bogged down in election-year politics, and
weariness from its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the French wasted no time in mustering a garrison of troops to rush in to beat back the rebel bad guys, who were unleashed when their patron Qaddafi was overthrown. “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.” In Shakespearean English, the term “havoc” is a military order permitting the plunder of the
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than the rate in Germany and 213 times higher than the rates in Spain and the United Kingdom. The reason gun deaths are a huge epidemic in the United States is simple: it’s the guns and the permissive gun laws that protect them. In a 2007 study of 178 countries by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the U.S. ranked number one in the number of guns per person (88.8 per 100), far ahead of all the other countries in the study. Yemen was
CLINGMAN continued from Page 22 ond, and third times, I confirmed the number of payments to be 84. “Okay,” I said; let’s see what the total amount of the loan would be. For 84 months, which is seven years, at $743.49 per month, the total amount to be repaid is a whopping $62,453! I still keep going back to the calculator to check my math. Please, someone, if I am wrong in my calculations, let me know. I still can’t believe this. Maybe because of its limited time on the screen I made a mistake and did not read it correctly. I hope so. But I also hope that anyone who is considering accepting this “loan” will stop and read all the fine print. Some may opt for a lower amount, say, $5,000. Well, for that amount you
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a distant runner-up with 55 guns per 100 people, 40 percent less than the U.S. rate. Although the U.S. accounts for less than five percent of the global population, Americans own an estimated 35 to 50 percent of all civilian-owned guns in the world. Between 270-300 million guns are in civilian hands in the U.S. – nearly one gun for every man, woman, and child. Our nation is saturated with guns and the National Rifle Association wants more and more. We can free our nation of this scourge of gun violence. No external enemy ever took the lives of so many children and adults.
We can and must change this. I am confident that most Americans value children’s safety and right to live more than they value the right of anyone to have assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines. If America can’t stand up for its children, it doesn’t stand for anything. wi Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.
make 84 payments of $486.58, or a total of $40,872! Sound better? If your credit is bad and you need a car there is always someone who will sell one to you. Here’s the catch though. Your interest rate will be much higher than normal. The dealer may even drastically reduce the sticker price of a used car, but he will recoup that in high 15 percent – 25 percent interest rates in conjunction with the finance company. I don’t know for sure but I would guess the dealer gets a cut from the finance company for doing the deal. Please look for alternative ways to raise money when you have problems – legal ways, of course. And, if the situation calls for it, there is always bankruptcy. I know that comes with a high cost as well, but a least you will not have the burden of trying to pay
bills with borrowed money, that is, if you don’t go out after filing bankruptcy and run up debt again. The bankruptcy laws were written to relieve you of that burden and have been used for years by millions of people. Unfortunately, many Black people view bankruptcy as a stigma; other folks view it as a strategy. Read the fine print, folks. And then make good choices when it comes to borrowing money and buying cars. wi Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics. com.
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spoils of war after a victory, and “let slip” is to release from the leash. Time and time again, this country has unleashed the dogs of war on hapless countries in Africa and Asia and Latin America, as if there would never be any consequences for such hostile behavior. Like the days when the French Foreign Legion began in 1831, composed of nationals – misfits generally trying to leave behind their lives and families – from any number of countries outside of France, the French in this case The Washington Informer
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have assembled a band of African soldiers to go into Mali and fight those they now call “terrorists.” The United States apparently has no stomach for such an adventure at this time. But the U.S. is glad that the French are intervening, and is supplying some logistical support. But what can this county expect when its foreign policy is one which only threatens mayhem –as in Shakespeare’s prologue to Henry V, where that warlike king is described as having at his heels, waiting to be un-
Just go to www.washington informer.com to get informed and find out where to pick up the paper! leashed, the hounds of “famine, sword and fire” – behind the mask of friendly relations and the oh, so, coveted American “foreign aid.” What can this country’s foreign policy advisers expect from its reckless and wrong-headed ideology, other than another worn out set of clichés, like “weapons of mass destruction,” like “the war on terrorism?” The dogs of war have been unleashed; will they bite the hand that fed them again? wi www.washingtoninformer.com