7 Articles

Thursday, December 8, 2011
Freedom Rider: Black America at the Bottom
(1 comments) The Obama phenomenon has silenced a people who were once the most likely to speak out against inequality and injustice. The death of movement politics has made black people the perfect victims of the descent of their nation's and the world's economies.

Monday, October 17, 2011
Freedom Rider: Occupy Wall Street, Denounce the Democrats
(1 comments) Mass action is the only way to prevent further inequality & further American aggression around the world. Occupy Wall Street can be the beginning of a great movement, or a lost opportunity.

Friday, June 3, 2011
Freedom Rider: The Obama Surveillance State
(5 comments) The state security apparatus which came into being during the Bush administration is now supported just as strongly, if not more so, under president Barack Obama. There has been no let-up, no change in course for a system which becomes stronger with each passing day and which faces almost no political opposition.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Freedom Rider: Wisconsin Assault on Workers
(1 comments) Only two years after the party supported by most of organized labor won a decisive national election, the Republicans are on the verge of crushing union power once and for all. But, the White House seems singularly uninvolved. "President Obama, who like all Democrats depends on labor unions to mobilize support, was at best lukewarm in his support of the protests" in Wisconsin".

Thursday, January 6, 2011
Freedom Rider: White Supremacy in 2011
(1 comments) The entire notion of the U.S. as a post-racial society is nonsensical, as even the most cursory review of the past year attests. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, sometimes mentioned as presidential caliber, "recently made headlines when he fondly reminisced about the old days of segregation" when "things weren't that bad." A well paid pundit says Michael Vick should be executed, and Black farmers can't find justice above or bel

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Economic Crisis Worsens
(5 comments) With state and federal governments effectively broke and the new president about to turn over the next round of bailout money to the financial services industry... Americans are stuck in a morass of apathy and ignorance brought about by corporate media disinformation.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Progressives Cave to Obama
(60 comments) The stampede to Obama reveals the emptiness of the Democratic left. The progressive movement is on its death bed, in critical condition for many reasons.