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Gambacorta/Philadelphia Daily News: Mayor Nutter to thugs: $20,000 bounty on your head. Initiatives make it clear that city leaders seek to escape being forever known as "Killadelphia."


Chicago Tribune: Church groups with millions of dollars in contracts from his administration, back Mayor Rahm Emanuel's agenda.


Forward: Romney, Maybe. Gingrich, No Thanks. In Florida, GOP Jews Ready To Stick With Mainstream Pick.


Simmonds/LA Sentinel: Rep. Waters, right for the House Financial Services Committee.


Jefferson/BET News: Blacks Aren’t Marching on Washington Because Obama’s Black? A remark by the chairman of the CBC is insulting to politicized African-Americans everywhere.


KTAR: Obama downplays Brewer confrontation. "This is not a big deal," the president said in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer.


Gordy/The Root: Meet New Black Recruits for Congress.


Sharpton/Huffington Post: Fairness and Equality Will Save Our Union.


Arizona Republic: Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama exchange tense words over book, immigration at airport.


Star Ledger: Black leaders: Gov. Christie needs history lesson after linking civil rights to gay marriage vote.


Samuel/CNN: Perception or reality: Why GOP still can't persuade enough Blacks to join the party.


PolitickerNY: Councilman Jumaane Williams is calling for the removal of NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne for his role in evolving scandal over an Islamophobic propaganda film.


PolitickerNY: The Islamic Circle of North America called on police commissioner Ray Kelly to resign today, after more revelations about an anti-Islamic film screened for NYPD officers came out.


Gothamist: NYPD Caught Lying About Ray Kelly's Role In Anti-Islam Propaganda Film.

Hill: Rep. Cummings plays foil to Darrell Issa.

White House: Full Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address.


NYTimes: Obama Speech Makes Pitch for Economic Fairness in State of The Union Speech.


Perry Bacon Jr/The Grio: State of the Union: President Obama turns populist.


The Grio: Black leaders react to President Obama's third State of the Union speech.

Stephens/Wall St. Journal: The GOP Deserves to Lose That's what happens when you run with losers.


Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: The toxic message that drove Newt Gingrich to victory in South Carolina will drive our nation apart rather than bring it together. And it will spell defeat for him — and for Republicans if they choose to go that way.


Times-Picayune: Eugene Green ditches his bid for New Orleans City Council at-large seat to prevent the Black vote from being divided.


Zornick/The Nation: Obama Is on the Brink of a Settlement With the Big Banks—and Progressives Are Furious.


Wickham/USA Today: Historian Newt Gingrich should see 'Red Tails'. The former House speaker's remaking of America might require time travel.

EURweb: President Obama’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’ Now a Ringtone.


Washington Post: President Obama will use his State of the Union address on Tuesday to deliver an election-year message focused on economic fairness for the middle class and what he calls “a return to American values.”


Cottman/Black America Web: Obama Targeting Black Glitterati.


Samuels/Newsweek: Black Hollywood Weighs Whether to Support Obama a Second Time. Will the African-American elite open its wallet for Obama a second time?


Boston Globe: Black community aims to block 3-strikes bill, they say will exacerbate inmate overcrowding, increase prison costs, and disproportionately affect minorities.


Huffington Post/AP: Nikki Haley Excoriated By Black Leaders Over South Carolina Voter ID Law, reminding the governor that she is a minority, too.


Washington Post: U.S. Supreme Court Justices throw out Texas electoral maps favoring minorities.


Hill: House Republicans pressure Obama to oppose bonuses at Solyndra.


Hill: Black Caucus chairman: People who approve of Congress 'need therapy'.


Crew of 42: Is Tim Scott Running For Senate in South Carolina? He Launches PAC.


Crew of 42: Hastings Case: Ethics Case as Political Weapon?


NYTimes: With a fortune estimated to be as large as a quarter of a billion dollars, Mitt Romney is among the wealthiest men ever to run for president.


Wickham/USA Today: Haley Barbour deserves praise for pardons. Outgoing Mississippi governor gives ex-felons the right to vote.


Black Voices: NYPD Accused Of Discrimination With 'Secret List' Barring Blacks From Promotion.


Gordy/The Root: Obama Campaign Hires Black-Vote Director.

Black Agenda Report/Ford: Barack Obama vs. Farrakhan, Hedges and the Bill of Rights.


HP: Remember Teach The Children The Full History of Dr. King So We Can Follow In His Foot Steps Properly. "Martin Luther King Jr. Speaks Out Against Vietnam War On 'The Mike Douglas Show' (1967)." Hoover called him "the most dangerous Negro in America."

CBS News: Gingrich: My position should not offend Blacks.


NYTimes: Black Voters Are Wary as Hopefuls Seek Kinship. On Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Newt Gingrich spoke to Black voters about growing up in segregated Georgia.


Greenville News: Blacks see little GOP competition for their vote. “I have no fear of that sort of thing,” Rep. Clyburn said of the possibility of the GOP attracting more Black voters. “All you have to do is listen to the rhetoric..."


Yadron/Wall St. Journal: Rep. Tim Scott Weighs ‘Electability Factor’ in GOP Race.


Chicago Tribune: Approval of the Chicago ward map plan by Allan Lichtman was the key condition set last week by Ald. Daniel Solis, Latino Caucus chairman.


Dade/NPR: Obama's Most Vocal Black Critics Dial Back Attacks As Election Year Begins.

Hill: With ‘angry Black woman’ remark, Michelle Obama addresses race head-on.


Wallman/Sun Sentinel: Group says new Broward political maps dilute Black influence. (Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness, pictured).


Chicago Sun-Times: Rival City Council factions have reached agreement on a new ward map that includes 18 majority Black wards, 13 majority Hispanic wards & 2 Hispanic “influence” wards. It won’t be ratified it until a Thursday meeting at the earliest.


Cedric Muhammad/Final Call: Politics, Economics and The Ambassador Of Christ. Mastering Dialect and Scripture (Part 3).


Final Call: National Defense Authorization Act lays foundation for targeting political dissenters, activism.


Redding News Review: Tavis Smiley says he will vote for Obama.


Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times: The New South is legacy of Martin Luther King. New Hampshire’s primary grabs headlines today, but if history is any guide, the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary will play a far greater role in determining the Republican winner.

Washington Post: Dispute over proposed green card law pits brightest immigrants against each other.


Sharpton/Huffington Post: Will We Be a Cohesive Country of Laws or a Divided States?


Wickham/USA Today: Ron Paul is lone GOP voice on unequal justice. Only the Texas congressman rails against a system that disproportionately imprisons Blacks.


Crew of 42: Black GOP Candidate in Utah Threatens to “Take Apart” CBC If Elected.


Chicago Tribune: African-American alderman joins Latinos in remap battle. Toni Foulkes wants to keep representing West Englewood.


LA Times: Blacks in New Orleans cry foul over French Quarter curfew. The City Council says stricter rules are meant to protect kids, but critics accuse members of wanting to keep low-income Blacks out of sight of tourists.


Salon: The 20 Biggest Donors of the 2012 Election (So Far). The casino mogul betting $5 million on Newt Gingrich, Wall Streeters investing in Mitt Romney, Obama's Hollywood pal, and more of the superwealthy givers trying to sway the race.


Pitts, Jr/Miami Herald: Life in the margins. Voter ID Bill & race. Officially race-neutral, yet the intention and effect was to bar Blacks from voting.


Payne/The Root: Ron Paul's Moment of Racial Clarity. His recent comments about institutional racism defy the GOP norm.


Bacon/The Grio: William Daley resignation signals less conciliatory Barack Obama.

Lewis/Forbes: Does A Commodity Basket Standard Measure Up To Gold?


Oprita/CNBC: Europe needs "massive monetary easing" to get out of its debt crisis, otherwise Greece will likely abandon the euro in a year and a half, famous economist Nouriel Roubini said.


Malpass/Wall St. Journal: Ron Paul, the Fed and the Need for a Stable Dollar. The central bank should take note when a popular presidential contender calls for limits on its power.


Gandel/Time: Is the Fed Undermining the Recovery?

NYTimes: So Who’s a Lobbyist? Newt Gingrich is one of thousands of people in Washington’s influence industry who skirt the definition of lobbying by taking advantage of legal loopholes.


Bloomberg: MF Global Clients May Lose in $700 Million Bankruptcy Fight.


Miami Herald/AP: Obama courts Latino vote on economic tour.


Robinson/Washington Post: Greed is good? The GOP seems to be okay with that.


Waggoner/USA Today Money: Investing: A good fund for your kids? Maybe a madcap.


Henderson/The Grio: Black Americans losing homes over property taxes: It doesn't have to happen.

Bloomberg: Gold Proves Safest as Goldman Sachs Forecasts Record: Riskless Return.


Journal-isms: FCC Says No to Bob Johnson on New Network. The cable channel TV One told the FCC that the method that Johnson would use could force cable systems to drop TV One.


MarketWatch: Gold prices climbed to levels unseen since early December on Thursday, extending a rally triggered the previous day after the U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to hold interest rates near zero until the end of 2014.


Reuters: The Federal Reserve has moved closer to embarking on a new round of its controversial money-pumping after the central bank and its chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted a grim outlook for the U.S. economy.


Star Ledger: Dramatic restructuring of N.J.'s university system would create 3 research campuses.


Lynn/MarketWatch: Forget Greece; it’s Portugal that’ll destroy euro.


Reuters: The Federal Reserve looks set to keep monetary policy on hold on Weds, even as it releases forecasts expected to show interest rates will be near zero for at least two more years.

Wilcox/NYTimes: A Way to Make People Buy Homes Again.


Sacramento Bee/AP: Horizon Organic to boost payments to farmers.

La Monica/CNN Money: The new new gold rush.


NY Daily News: Sean (Diddy) Combs wants to launch cable network called 'Revolt'.


Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Employment of Black men drops drastically. UWM study of 2010 census data finds record low in Milwaukee.


Washington Times: U.S. leaders praised the European Union’s embargo on Iranian oil Monday, even though it triggered a jump of more than $1 per barrel in global oil prices and signaled the potential for a rise in U.S. gasoline prices in the weeks ahead.


Ebeling/Forbes: The Backdoor Roth IRA, Advanced Version.


CNN Money: Meet the new Federal Reserve members.


Washington Post: Growing number of Black pastors express support for Occupy movement.


Coy & Phillips/BusinessWeek: A Greek Default: It's a-Comin'. Talks are under way, but settlement options look a lot like—a default.

Brimelow/MarketWatch: Gold’s happy new year. Experts say the gold shares’ weakness may be deceptive.


Journal-isms/Prince: Black Gossip Sites Lose, News Numbers Rise. MediaTakeOut Slides, BET.com Rises in Latest Rankings.


Ozanian/Forbes: LeBron James Scoring With Liverpool Investment.


AP/USA Today: Consumers who send money abroad will soon be entitled to disclosures that spell out fees and the exchange rates of their transfers.


USA Today/Chronicle-Telegram: If you want great milk, you need happy and healthy cows. At Conrad's Dairy Farm, that means pampering their milk producers with waterbeds.

Brown/San Francisco Bay View: The way to occupy a bank is to own one.


Forbes: The Most Luxurious Ranches & Farms for Sale. Broken O Ranch, a 20 mile 124,000-acre cattle & farming operation, is the largest irrigated farm in Montana, producing grain crops & alfalfa hay, & being offered turn-key, complete with 4,500 cattle.


Reuters: China's banks lure man on the street to gold.


Lewis/Forbes: What Is 'Stable Value' In Currency Terms?


Austin/Economic Policy Institute: A good credit score did not protect Latino and Black borrowers.


Journal-isms: A group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry has purchased Heart & Soul, a health-&-wellness magazine targeting African Americans.


Black Voices: Jay-Z's Rocawear Brand Cuts Staff, Struggles For Mogul's Support.


BusinessWeek: Suze Orman, Debit-Card Dealer. The money guru introduces her first financial product—and vexes some fans.


Davidoff/NYTimes: Federal Reserve as a Hedge Fund: Higher Profits, Lower Pay. I call the Fed a hedge fund because it is operating like one, leveraging its balance sheet to earn huge profits.

USA Today Money: Should alimony laws be changed? A grassroots effort to reform alimony laws has spread to several states.


Bloomberg: Phoenix Housing Rises as Canadian Buyers Seek 55% Discount in the Desert.


Hill: Obama administration warns the left: You will not like our budget.

MarketWatch: Gold tops $1,660 as dollar slides on China data.


France 24/AP: S&P downgrades eurozone bailout fund to AA+.


Gregory/Forbes: And Deliver Us From Systemic Risk: The Fed Transcripts. Despite all its expertise and resources, the Fed failed to foresee the housing collapse. It is silly to believe that government can protect us from future systemic risk.

BusinessWeek: Who Do You Trust More with Your Data: Facebook or a Bank? A financial cooperative proposes a new way to store your data online.


Black Enterprise: How Radio Personality Angela Yee Dug Herself Out of Debt. The New York DJ recounts her financial missteps before getting back on track.


Commercial Appeal: Black farmers join Occupy protesters in Memphis.


Robinson: From all evidence, the issue of economic justice isn’t going away. Break the news gently to Mitt Romney, who seems apoplectic that the whole “rich get richer, poor get poorer” thing is being discussed out loud.


Lenzner/Forbes: 'I'd Be A Billionaire Today If I Held All My Art Collection'. Art, it seems, is an asset class that is rising a good deal faster than the stock market.

CNBC: Sioux County, Iowa: Ground zero for farm boom.


Burlington Free Press: Vermont dairy farms scramble to get through winter after Tropical Storm Irene destroys corn, hay for feed.


Irwin/Washington Post: For those hurting most, Fed’s remedies limited.


Michalowicz/Wall St. Journal: How to Build Recognition for Your Unknown Brand.

Zeiler/Money Morning: How the U.S. National Debt Could Drain Your Savings.


Crudele/NY Post: Thank Santa for Dec. jobs. Now the bad news. More than one-fifth of all the new jobs created in December were package deliverers — in other words, Santa’s helpers’ positions that probably have already disappeared.


Bloomberg: Gold Could Hit $1,940 an Ounce in ’12: Goldman Sachs. Morgan Stanley says $2,200 an ounce.

Motive/Gold Seek/EuroPacific: Why The Wealthy Own Gold.


Santoli/Barron's: The rough consensus has U.S. equities as the place to be in 2012. But could European stocks take off? Might the Fed actually tighten? And could a second Obama term actually be good for stocks?


Malveaux/The Skanner: Black Unemployment Rate Worsens While Others' Rates Gain.


Ron Paul/USA Today: Stop the Fed from distorting the market. Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar.


Williams/The Root: The Food Stamp Fallacy. When will Republicans be honest about who really gets the most out of welfare programs?


Bossip: Rutgers University Has A Course Called 'Politicizing Beyonce'?!?!?


Sharp/Detroit Free Press: Tigers' Mike Ilitch pulling out all the stops to win a World Series with acquisition of Prince Fielder.

Westside Gazette/UPI: Black physicians outperform their white colleagues in using positive non-verbal communication in interactions with patients, U.S. researchers say.


Vibe: Mike Epps on New 'Friday' Movie: 'I Think It's Going Down In The Spring'.


Creekmur/All Hip Hop: The Hip-Hop Response To President Obama’s 2012 State Of The Union Address.


Hopkinson/The Root: In Defense of Hip-Hop Diplomacy. Black artists have often served as global ambassadors for the U.S. What's wrong with that?


MTO: Beyonce & Jay-Z Reportedly Choose Oprah As Blue Ivy's Godmother.

Miami Herald: Dade, Broward Counties top nation for Black, Hispanic student scores on AP exams.


Comedy Central: New Comedy Series Premieres Tonight, "Russell Simmons: The Ruckus" 10pm EST.

Ogunsola/Loop21: Autism in the Black Community. Early diagnosis and awareness can help turn the tide against this disorder.


The Grio/AP: New exhibit at The Smithsonian explores Thomas Jefferson's slave ownership.


News One: Will Dave Chappelle Tour With Chris Rock?


GCobb: Michael Vick To Marry Longtime Fiancee In June.


Hass/GQ: Terrell Owens: Love Me, Hate Me, Just Don't Ignore Me. His financial advisers (recommended by Rosenhaus) put him in a series of risky, highly leveraged ventures that he didn't discover until 2010, when he finally demanded a full accounting.


Freeman/CBS Sports: Minority NFL assistants question if 'Rooney Rule' is being followed.

Boxing Scene: Pacquiao-Cotto Held Up By Weight, Mayweather is Not.


Dr. Nsenga Burton/The Root: 'Love and Hip Hop': Where Is the Love?


USA Today/AP: Rev. Al Sharpton will eulogize the late legend Etta James at a private funeral to be held on Saturday.

Times-Picayune: African-American cemeteries plowed over for spillway now recognized as historic.


Washington Post: African American women see their own challenges mirrored in Michelle Obama’s.


The Source: Behind The Machine: Mona Scott Young.


LA Times: John Levy, first prominent African-American jazz music manager, dies at 99.


Vibe: Kevin Hart Talks Career Moves, Becoming a Businessman, and More with The Breakfast Club.


Annette John-Hall/Philadelphia Inquirer: "Red Tails" is worthwhile but misses opportunities to teach viewers about the Tuskegee Airmen.


LA Times: Sundance 2012: Spike Lee made 'Red Hook Summer' because Hollywood wouldn't. “My wife told me when I left this morning ‘You’re defeating the purpose. Just talk about the movie.’”


Wiltz/America's Wire: Educators Alarmed: Black, Latino High School Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago.

Goldstein/LA Times: Hollywood on Black culture: Should it be looking forward not back?


Miami Herald: An international jazz festival in Haiti hopes to attract fans & artists with support of local embassies in the earthquake-ravaged country. The festival is more than a marketing tool, say organizers. (Saxophonist, Thurgot Théodat, pictured).


News Journal: Not Black enough: Some challenge Delaware Historical Society's ability to interpret their history. Society says it can handle job professionally.


Williams/The Grio: Jalen Rose, ex-NBA star, creates high-performing Detroit school.


Blay/CNN: What does Blackness look like?


Washington Post: Survey paints portrait of Black women in America.


Brother Dash: Red Tails, The Review.


Molloy/NY Daily News: Jay-Z anthem to fatherhood is music to the ears of Black leaders and family advocates. 72% of African-American kids are raised without a dad.


Africa Review: Dakar's $30m 'Museum of Black Civilisations'. Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is intent on keeping the tradition alive with a slew of cultural buildings lined up for the coming months in what he has christened the 'Seven Wonders'.


CNN: Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in California at 73.


Sports Illustrated: Report: Floyd Mayweather Called Manny Pacquiao To Discuss Fight.


SOHH: Common Willing To Drop Drake Rap Battle, "I Said What I Needed To Say".


Trice/Chicago Tribune: Timuel Black Jr.'s memorabilia is rare glimpse into Black Chicago. Extensive collection of letters, tapes on display at Chicago Public Library.

Greenburg/Forbes: Swizz Beatz Does Not Own Megaupload, Says Court Filing. Swizz Beatz wasn’t among the seven Megaupload shareholders singled out by the U.S. Dept. of Justice; in fact, his name didn’t appear anywhere in the entire 72-page indictment.


Aku/Black Enterprise: Swizz Beatz’ File-Sharing Site Gets His Celeb Friends In Trouble.


NY Daily News: Jay-Z arrives at re-opening of 40/40 Club without Beyonce; CC Sabathia, Spike Lee and Warren Buffett in the house at the renovated Flatiron hotspot that has seen a $10 million facelift.


Tyler Perry: The problem with all-star African American Casts...they on the verge of becoming extinct. THAT’S RIGHT, EXTINCT!


Necole B*!tc@#: Taye Diggs Reveals Tyson Beckford Helped Him Love His Skin Color.


Rafael/ESPN: Amir Khan drops appeal with IBF to seek an immediate rematch of his fight with titleholder Lamont Peterson.

Williams/Kansas City Star: Black teachers: A tragically endangered species.


Osunsami/ABC News: Getting More People to Care About Missing Black Women.


NY Daily News: New video exhibit 'Question Bridge: Black Males' at Brooklyn Museum explores black identity. Hundreds of interviews were stitched together to create a vast tapestry of opinion.


Dwyre/LA Times: Muhammad Ali's legacy still both butterfly and bee. Happy 70th Birthday!


Essence: Happy 48th Birthday, Michelle Obama!


Iole/Yahoo Sports: Hopkins turns 47, worries about sport’s future & upcoming Black boxing prospects. "We are losing boxing in the Black community and that’s something to be seriously concerned about.”


Global Grind: Jay-Z Sends His First Blue Ivy Tweet!


Journal-isms: Alex P. Kellogg, NPR's only Black male on-air journalist, has left the network after 14 months on the job.

Martin/CNN: Hollywood's irrational allergy to 'Black' films.


The Root: 'Juice': Where Are They Now? The crime drama featured Tupac's acting debut; find out what the rest of the cast has been up to since.


News One/AP: Black Radio Station Serving The Underserved Gets Raided By Feds.


Martin/NPR: Can Hip-Hop Change The Style Of Politics? (Lester Spence, associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, pictured).


London Telegraph: Prime Minister David Cameron wants more Black managers in English football to help battle racism. (Birmingham's Chris Hughton, pictured).


Glanton/Chicago Tribune: There's good reason to be angry about 'angry Black woman' stereotype. We are inundated with images of Black women walking around with chips on their shoulders for no apparent reason.


Global Grind: Ol' Dirty Bastard's 94 Page FBI File Revealed! And who doesn't believe the Feds are watching?!


Rafael/ESPN: Mayweather calls out Pacquiao for May 5th showdown after after judge delays sentence.


Businessweek: Michael Jackson's Estate Wants to Keep Thrilling. More than two years after his death, Jackson is still on top. His estate wants to keep him there.


NY Daily News: Bed-Stuy hair salon offers free ‘dos to the jobless; Unemployed too prideful to come in, says owner.


LA Times: Kobe drops 48 points looking as spry as ever in the Lakers' 99-83 victory over the Phoenix Suns.


Shepard/AlterNet: Hip-Hop Diplomacy? How the State Department Uses Rap to Spread Propaganda Abroad.

Al Jazeera: UN Security Council to debate draft resolution supporting Arab League plan, which calls for President Assad to relinquish power.


All Africa/Southern Africa Report: The government of Andry Rajoelina in Madagascar is colluding with France to prevent the return of ousted president Ravalomanana to the island, undermining the SADC Road Map agreed upon last year.


Mail & Guardian: Leaked email gives Julius Malema ammunition. The ANC Youth League claims it has hard evidence of a political vendetta being waged against its leaders through a leaked email.


Punch Nigeria: It’s difficult to get Boko Haram for talks –President Goodluck Jonathan …says Islamist sect must show its face, make demands.


Were/East African: The rising cost of funds is the biggest risk facing Kenyan banks in 2012, analysts say, as banks pay high interest rates to access deposits to lend out to customers.


Daily Nation/AFP: AU heads for first post-Gaddafi summit as it elects new leader.


GhanaWeb: The African Union High Rep for Somalia Jerry Rawlings visited Mogadishu Weds where he held meetings with various stakeholders as part of the AU’s continued efforts to resolve the current political standoff in the Transitional Federal Parliament.


Rodgers/Jamaican Observer: Jamaican middle & upper classes don't have the entrepreneurial spirit said Professor Arnoldo Ventura in a presentation to the Jamaica Stock Exchange's regional conference on investment & capital markets.


Jamaica Observer: Former Finance Minister Audley Shaw yesterday blasted his successor Dr Peter Phillips for implying that relations had soured between the previous Government and multilateral lending institutions.


Australian: Prime Minister Julia Gillard dragged away from Aboriginal rights protest as she gets trapped in restaurant.


Zimbabwe Herald: Government yesterday offered civil servants salary increments of US$84 for the highest-paid worker and US$52 for the least-paid, which the unions rejected and vowed to continue with their strike.


Zimbabwe Herald: Zambian President Michael Sata has branded MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai a "stooge" saying he will not stop President Mugabe from holding elections this year.


New Dawn Liberia: The Boston Globe, a New York Times Company newspaper, has admitted that its report quoting US Defense officials as confirming that ex-President Charles Taylor worked as a hired US spy agent lacks evidence.


Kansas City Star: Missouri’s Black homicide rate again worst in nation.


Al Jazeera: Egyptians mass in Tahrir to honour uprising. Protesters in iconic Cairo square demand transition to civilian rule on one-year anniversary of revolution.


Uganda Daily Monitor: Obama looks to Asia for new US envoy to Uganda. The President has appointed his country’s envoy to Nepal, Mr Scott H. DeLisi, to replace Ambassador Jerry Lanier.

Rwanda New Times: Rwanda, Uganda keen to eliminate trade barriers.


This Day Live: The United States has said it will partner Nigeria in the fight against terrorism, a phenomenon it described as similar to that being faced by Americans.


Guardian UK: Turkey has warned Sarkozy that he will compound France's mistakes & face retaliatory action if he signs a law making it a crime to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constitutes genocide.

Daily Nation/AFP: South Africa's fiery youth leader Julius Malema on Monday asked the ruling African National Congress to set aside his five-year suspension, in a bellwether for President Jacob Zuma's reelection bid.


Sudan Tribune: AU urges Sudan & South Sudan to reverse unilateral actions over oil.

Final Call: Jamaica PM declares farewell to the British queen.


Bermuda Royal Gazette: A probe resulting from David Bolden’s corruption claims against former Premier Ewart Brown continues, according to the Police Commissioner, with an overseas law enforcement agency making inquiries in the United States.


Stabroek News: The University of Guyana (UG) Council has fired lecturer and political activist Freddie Kissoon, who is weighing legal options since he believes that there was political interference & that he is being targeted.


Reuters: Former Gaddafi stronghold revolts against Tripoli and National Transitional Council. (NTC head, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, pictured).


Mail & Guardian: Silence reigns as ANC reconsiders Malema's future. A handful of ANC Youth League supporters marched outside Luthuli House, as Julius Malema's appeal against his suspension from the ANC started.


Guardian UK: European Union agrees to Iranian oil embargo. Foreign ministers' deal in Brussels could lead to soaring fuel prices and Iran closing the strait of Hormuz.


Reuters: The deputy head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Sunday he was resigning after a series of protests against the new government which the country's leader warned could drag Libya into a "bottomless pit."


Miami Herald: Honduras named murder capital of the world.


Powell/Jamaica Gleaner: The Coming Collision - Popular Expectations Versus IMF Conditions in Jamaica.

Tico Times: Costa Rica surpasses foreign investment goals. During the first nine months of 2011, Costa Rica had a total foreign direct investment of $1.5 billion.


Channel 5 Belize: Economic comparisons on Belize and Cayman.


Maritz/How We Made It In Africa: Insight into Tanzania’s advertising market. Because Tanzania is a relatively literate society, newspapers are also an important medium for advertisers. However, because there are so many publications...

Harding/How It Made It In Africa: Multinational drinks companies continue to invest in Africa.

This Day Live: Multiple explosions have rocked Kano, the biggest city in northern Nigeria.


Min. Farrakhan/Final Call: 'Ayiti Toma': A Message to The People of Haiti.


Daily Monitor: The Central Bank of Uganda has dismissed allegations that it printed money to fund the NRM campaigns, a situation that some opposition politicians say is responsible for the current inflationary pressures.


Daily Nation: Kenya's Cabinet on Friday suspended renewal of all land leases until the National Land Commission is operationalised.


Mail & Guardian: Three years after the "palace coup" that saw him leave office, opinions are divided on whether Thabo Mbeki should return to active domestic politics.

Sudan Tribune: South Sudan shuts down its oil production countrywide.


Democracy Now: Tariq Ali says Obama’s Expansion of Af-Pak War "Has Blown Up in His Face"


Bloomberg: Prospect of Boom in Falkland Islands Oil Could Triple U.K. Reserves, but is reviving tensions with Argentina. David Cameron has approved contingency plans to bolster U.K. troops on the islands.


Miami Herald: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that low-skilled Haitian workers can now apply for jobs in the United States.

Al Jazeera: Minorities: A growing force in US politics. Minorities are changing the US electoral calculus, but will that benefit Democrats or Republicans?

RT: Time runs out for effective probe of brutal Gaddafi murder.


Africa Review: Madagascar's Ravalomanana in new try at going home. The exiled former president vows to fly to Antananarivo Saturday despite threats to arrest him.


Daily Nation: Public support for the International Criminal Court trials of six Kenyans is waning according to a new poll.

Sheila Johnson/Black Voices: Finding Hope in Haiti.


Bloomberg: Indonesia Wins Second Rating Upgrade in a Month as Investment Gets Boost.


This Day Live: President Goodluck Jonathan Monday warned that he would no longer tolerate destabilisation plots against the country by those who fan the embers of discord that threaten the corporate existence of the country.

Vanguard: Troops deployment: A gross betrayal - Wole Soyinka.


Punch: The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday deployed soldiers in Lagos in a bid to stop the continuation of the pro-subsidy protests spearheaded by civil society groups. Government also deployed soldiers in Oyo and Ogun states.


Zimbabwe Herald: African leaders should stand their ground when foreigners try to impose their resolutions on the continent, an Ethiopian diplomat has said.


RNW: Ethiopia is forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can lease it to foreign investors, leaving former landowners destitute and in some cases starving, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.


RNW: The African Union wants to turn the page in its ties with Libya's new rulers, the head of the AU's executive arm said on Monday on his first visit to the country since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi.

Herald: Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea sign special co-operation deals.


Al Arabiya: Bomb kills nuclear scientist in Iran; Tehran blames Israel, U.S. for assassination.

Press TV: The Israeli spy agency, Mossad, and the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group are the main perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack against an Iranian scientist, an American blogger quotes an Israeli source as saying.


Mail & Guardian: President Barack Obama is sending five American military officers to support the United Nations mission in South Sudan.


Daily Nation: Libya has asked for three more weeks to mull the possible handing over of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam, after a deadline to inform the International Criminal Court expired on Tuesday.

Miami Herald/AP: Brazil to grant visas to Haitian immigrants who have arrived in remote areas of the Amazon recently seeking work.


NYTimes: China warned the United States on Wednesday against using religious incidents as a pretext to interfere in its domestic affairs, after the U.S. expressed concern over a series of self-immolations by Tibetans.

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow...which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? " (The Book of Job 38:22,23).


Alaska Dispatch: As of Tuesday morning, Cordova, Alaska had seen 187 inches of snow this winter, while Valdez had accumulated more than 290 inches. That's about 15 and 24 feet of snow, respectively.


Al Jazeera: Daniel Ortega begins third term aside foreign allies. Nicaragua's leftist ex-rebel president inaugurated at Managua ceremony attended by counterparts from Venezuela and Iran.

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