Saturday, November 12, 2011 Rigged Games: Obama's Fake "Jobs Bill" is Election-Year Theater
Barack Obama's job creation policies, like his foreign policies, like his environmental policies, like his stands on Clean Coal and Safe Nuclear Power, like where he is on network neutrality, genetically modified crops, and a hundred other issues, are pretty much the same as that of his Republican opponents.
Friday, August 19, 2011 It's Too Late To Save The Obama Administration. Can We Still Save Ourselves? (7 comments)
Obama should be working on how to save us from endless war, climate change and joblessness. He isn't. And he won't. It's time for us to love our own families, our own children and elders as much or more than we love his, and get busy.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama & Neo-Liberalism are the Daleys' Gifts to Chicago and the Nation. Thanks.
Chicago's Daley regime was a half century orgy of arrogance, racism and plunder. Thanks to President Obama, it not only continues with the succession of Rahm Emanuel to the fifth floor office of Chicago's mayor, but with nationwide implementation of disastrous policies toward housing, schools, infrastructure and public workers, all pioneered in Chicago.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work
The corporate right in this country are working overtime to create an incarceration for profit system.
This diabolical plan to create corporate profits through the warehousing of human beings is being pushed hard by the Republican party and their blind allegiance to profits over human life.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 Barack Obama, Social Security and the Final Irrelevance of the Black Misleadership Class
The masters of corporate media proclaim that their raid on social security, is a done deal. "Entitlements," their code word for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, will be cut in the lame duck session of Congress, with Democratic president Barack Obama taking the lead. Though the outlines of this raid have been clear for months, what passes for black America's political leadership class have been silent.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 The Supreme Court? Is This Why We Vote For Democrats? (2 comments)
We vote for Democrats, the argument goes, because sending a Republican to the White House means sending racist conservative neanderthals to the Supreme Court. A clinching argument right? What would John McCain do? But is that the right question to ask?
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Black Politics Is Over: Black Politicians No Longer Believe Social Justice Is Possible (2 comments)
before being sworn in, Atlanta's new mayor Kasim Reed pledged to the Chamber of Commerce he'd deal with downtown panhandlers in what he called a more "muscular" fashion. The hopes and predictions of white pundits that black political life would come to look like the rest of America have come true. But not because the inequalities in health, wealth, incarceration rates and other indices of disparity have narrowed.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 If Democrats Don't Pass Health Insurance Reform This Year, What Do We Lose? And What Do We Gain? (1 comments)
The “public option” in the president's health care bill is like the “clean” in clean coal. One harnesses the awesome power of the word clean and attaches it to coal, which is anything but. Likewise Democrats deploy the rhetorical power of the words “public” as in “everybody in, nobody out” and “option” as in choice to describe an arrangement will be neither public or for most, an available option.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Why the Public Option is Doomed To Fail, and What Can Be Done About It. (4 comments)
The generous, expansive public option on the lips of Congressional progressives, which would be open to all and compete to lower insurance prices is largely imaginary, while the president's stingy, divisive and means-tested version is all too real. But what about the third version of the public option? What is the Congressional Progressive Caucus doing to promote it, and to allow states to pursue single payer on their own?
Friday, June 5, 2009 Sonia Maria Sotomayor -- She's No Clarence Thomas, But No Thurgood Marshall Either
What is and what should be the story around the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the high court? Should we spend all our time and energy refuting the racism of Republican talking heads, and none examining her record, and how she arrived at the door of the Supreme Court? Is this a good time to explore what a just and democratic society must demand from its courts?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 House Democratic Leader Declares National Health Care Legislation "Off The Table" This Year, Maybe Next (34 comments)
What does it mean when leading House Democrats, and apparently the White House repudiate their own campaign promises to enact a universal-coverage national health care plan only days into the new Congress and new administration, even though they have a popular president and the biggest Congressional majority in two generations?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Community Organizer v. Corrupt Politician: The Dec. 6 New Orleans Congressional Election (4 comments)
The Dec. 6 New Orleans congressional election isn't just a local choice between a privatizing "minority" Republican, a notoriously corrupt Democrat and a caring, competent community organizer running on the Green Party ticket. The days leading to this election are a test of whether there exists even the shadow of a national movement mature enough to hold any black Democrats the least bit accountable.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 The Hidden History of US Broadcasting (1 comments)
The US broadcast media regime, in which greedy, amoral corporations enjoy completely free monopoly licenses to run their highly profitable businesses upon the scarce public property that is the broadcast spectrum is usually presented to us as the only "natural" and sensible media order. It is, we've all been told, the benign and logical outcome of democratic give and take and rigorous competition in a free marketplace.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 Holding Barack Obama Accountable
It's time for a little less respect for the high and mighty of either party, and a little more action. It's high time for activists inside and outside the Democratic party to look for creative, innovative, sometimes impolite and civilly disobedient ways to reach larger audiences as they speak truth to the powerful. Even and especially when those in power are nominal Democrats.
