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Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. condemned the approved plan to stop US Foreign Aid to Ethiopia and called on Congress to Intervene.

Sentinel News ServiceSeptember 9, 2020

News reports that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has approved a plan to stop $100 million in U.S. foreign aid to Ethiopia, because of the country’s ongoing dispute with Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD), finally confirmed what we all knew from the beginning, that the U.S. has never been an impartial mediator in this conflict and instead fully supportive of Egypt.

National Op-Ed Opinion Political Rev. Jesse Jackson

The Question in November: ‘What kind of country do we want to be?’

BY REV. JESSE JACKSONJune 28, 2018

Trump uses immigration to rouse racial fear; immigrants “infest” our country, he charges.

Opinion Rev. Jesse Jackson

When it comes to the vote, we’re fighting a second Civil War

BY JESSE JACKSONJune 14, 2018

Open voter suppression laws had a far greater effect on the 2016 election than whatever the Russians did

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Trump’s ‘new deal for blacks’ was dealt from the bottom of the deck

BY REV. JESSE JACKSONMay 10, 2018

Black unemployment rates remain nearly twice as high as white unemployment rates.

Op-Ed Opinion Rev. Jesse Jackson

Diplomacy toward North Korea is an opening, not a surrender

Jesse JacksonFebruary 23, 2018

The picture of Vice President Mike Pence standing stiffly next to the trusted younger sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un at the Olympics in South Korea spoke a thousand words.

Opinion Rev. Jesse Jackson

How to put Puerto Rico back on its feet

Jesse JacksonOctober 19, 2017

That would give the island’s residents breathing room to begin to recover. If he chose to lead, Trump could push through a major program of aid — a Trump Plan for Puerto Rico modeled on the Marshall Plan for Europe after World War II — that would rebuild the island and insure jobs and growth for its residents.