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MICHAEL D. ROBERTS is a top Political Strategist and  Business, Management and Communications Specialists in New York City’s Black community. He is an experienced writer whose specialty is socio-political and economic analysis and local community relations. He has covered the United Nations, the Caribbean and Africa in a career that spans over 32 years in journalism. As Editor of New York CARIB NEWS, a position that he’s held since 1990, he is in a unique position to have his hands on the pulse of the over 800,000 Caribbean-American community in Brooklyn, and the over 2.5 million members resident in the wider New York State community.

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64 Articles

Friday, October 23, 2009
The Obama Peace Prize - A Deserving Award
(1 comments) Obama's Nobel Peace Prize And The Right Wing “Oh No” Corner;All Americans Should Be Proud Especially After 8 Years Of Republican Global Alienating Rule

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Obama, Power And Politics
(4 comments) How Social Behavior And Thinking Confuse And Obfuscate The Realities Of Today

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Obama, Power And Politics
How Social Behavior And Thinking Confuse And Obfuscate The Realities Of Today

Saturday, October 3, 2009
In Defense Of ACORN
(3 comments) The Republican Right-Wing's Continuing War On ACORN;Bashing A “Poor People's” Organization Can Have Far-Reaching Effects Down The Road

Saturday, October 3, 2009
G-20 Feel Good, Look Good Summit
An Almost Embarrassing Display Of Political Amnesia By World Leaders

Friday, September 25, 2009
Mr. President, Please Push Back
Right Wing Agitation, Scare And Smear Tactics Hindering Obama's Progressive Agenda;Appeasing Republicans And Detractors Is Futile And Counter-Productive

Monday, September 7, 2009
Healthcare Reform, the GOP, and Barack Obama
The Public Option IS Healthcare Reform Now Its Time For You To Lead What Will be The Defining Moment Of Your Presidency

Sunday, August 23, 2009
POLITICAL TERRORISM
The Healthcare Debate: The Politics Of Fear In Modern Politics;The Republican Party Wants President Obama To Fail "" Pure and simple.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Time To Get Healthcare Reform Right
The Need For National Healthcare Reform: 50 Million Uninsured

Thursday, January 1, 2009
Blueprint for Genocide and Occupation
(10 comments) Israel and the United States' flawed logic: Disaster in the making

Friday, November 14, 2008
The End Of Neo-Conservatism
(2 comments) Obama's Rout Of The Republican Party Is A Repudiation Of Its Moribund 30-Year Old Neo-Conservative Ideology And Its Touted Omnipotence

Friday, April 25, 2008
Obamamania: A Mixed Bag Of Black Pride And Hubris
(5 comments) Black Objective Criticism Of Obama Makes One A "Race Traitor"

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Zimbabwe- Presidency By Theft
(5 comments) President-For-Life Syndrome Forces Mugabe To Cling To Powe

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Zimbabwe- Anatomy Of A Failed State
The Stench Of Vote Rigging Is Everywhere But Mugabe Appears Unperturbed

Thursday, February 7, 2008
African History And Black Liberation
(3 comments) The Glorious African Antecedent

Friday, January 18, 2008
Can Democracy Exist With Tribalism?
(2 comments) Lessons Of The Kenyan Political Crisis

Monday, January 14, 2008
MLK: The Man, His Legacy And His Message
(3 comments) Celebrating The 79th Birthday Of Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968)

Saturday, January 12, 2008
Back PockeT Diplomacy
Bush's Legacy And Presidential Elections 2008

Friday, January 11, 2008
"The Bradley Effect?"
(2 comments) 'Obamania' And The US Presidential Elections

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Pakistan's 'Cult Of The Personality'
(10 comments) Benazir Bhutto's Assassination And The Myth Of Pakistani democracy

Sunday, December 23, 2007
Lessons Of Christmas
(2 comments) Today's Socio-Economic And Political Conditions No Different To Those Of 3000 Years Ago

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Blacks Killing Blacks
(3 comments) Lessons Of The Sean Taylor Murder Case

Saturday, December 1, 2007
Mr. Chavez's 'Pseudo Socialism'
(11 comments) Proposed reforms have nothing to do with 'people's power" and all to do with 'presidential power'

Sunday, November 25, 2007
The Invisible, Irrelevant Black Leadership
(3 comments) The United States Democratic Presidential Elections 2008;"Other" Candidates Attempt To Speak For Black People

Sunday, November 18, 2007
PART III - Cultural Imperialism And The Caribbean
(1 comments) Combating This Global Phenomenon Is Difficult But CARICOM Cannot Afford To Do Nothing

Saturday, November 17, 2007
PART II - Systemic Caribbean Dependency
The Lessons Of Cultural Imperialism: A Distorted Social Fabric; "Lost" Youth And National Escapism

Friday, November 16, 2007
PART I - The Caribbean Dilemma
The Caribbean In 2007: Battered By Cultural Imperialism; Cable Television, Hollywood And Targeted Advertising Have Undermined Caribbean Identity

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Anatomy Of A Failed State
(2 comments) Zimbabwe Under the Robert Mugabe Dictatorship

Sunday, November 4, 2007
Pakistan: A Dictatorship Crumbles
Crisis In Pakistan As State Of Emergency Declared By Military Dictator

Thursday, November 1, 2007
An Enduring Madness
47 Years of A Failed US Policy

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Obama And The Gay Thing
(6 comments) Intolerance Is Bad For Both Gays And Straights

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Blacks Are Inferior
New Racist Gaffe By British Scientist

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Apocalypse Now
Bush Speaks About Third World War

Saturday, October 20, 2007
The African Conundrum
(1 comments) How Poverty, Disease, Wars and Want Are Maintained in Africa and the Complicity of Multi-National Corporations In This

Monday, October 15, 2007
Behind The Sanchez Rant
(8 comments) A Call For An American Putsch?

Sunday, October 14, 2007
Weenie Nation
(9 comments) Where did "we the People" go wrong?

Saturday, October 13, 2007
Gore Vs Bus
(2 comments) This Time Its Presidential Election 2008

Friday, October 12, 2007
Democrats In Sheep's Clothing
(3 comments) Promising much; delivering little.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Ever-Changing Hillary
(1 comments) Standng for Everything; Standing for Nothing

Friday, October 5, 2007
The Columbus Myth
(5 comments) Christopher Columbus remains an enigmatic figure with a record of brutality, geographical ignorance and thievery

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Leave All Children Behind
Bush Threatens To Veto SCHIP While Giving This Cronies Trillions in Tax Cuts and While Spending $2 Billion a Week in Iraq

Friday, September 28, 2007
George Bush's Jaundiced World View
For George Bush And the Neocons the world is divided between "Good and Evil" with America the epitome of Good.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Ahmadinejad, Free Speech And Hypocrisy
Free Speech And Hypocrisy and how its spun.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Beep-Beep! Bush and Osama
The Us President and the terror mastermind locked in a symbiotic relationship

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Craig's Toilet Capers
(1 comments) Senator Larry Craig - Caught With His Pants Down

Monday, August 20, 2007
Iraq: Break It You Own It
(3 comments) America made the Iraq mess; America must own it

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Why Blacks Are Poor
(3 comments) Wealth Gap Widens In The United States :Rich Gets Super Rich

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Karl Rove: Not Really A Political Genius
(2 comments) Karl Rove is no political genius but a loyal Bush flunky, an ambitious, though limited man, who got lucky and with the help of the US Supreme Court had his candidate installed as President of the United States.

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Emancipation: Are Black People Truly Free?
(3 comments) 2007:Remembering the 173rd Anniversary of Emancipation and 90 Years of indentured servitude

Thursday, August 9, 2007
The Obama Dilemma
(3 comments) Why White America will not let Barack Obama become a Black candidate.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Mr. Bush's Spin Doctors
(1 comments) "Old Friends" Come Out To Put New Spin On Iraq Debacle Claiming "Troop Surge" Is Working

Friday, August 3, 2007
The Face Of The Undocumented
No Drag On The Economy. About Eight Million Undocumenteds Pay Social Security, Medicare, And Income Taxes

Thursday, August 2, 2007
China And The Caribbean
China Flexes Its Economic Muscles In The Caribbean; Undermines Taiwan's Influence In The Region.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
The Musings Of 'King George'
Our Commander-In-Chief Speaks To Himself

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Drug Nation
(3 comments) It seems as if everybody is on something in America - from Prozac to marijuana and everything in between. We've long ago lost the "War on Drugs." Welcome to your everyday junkie.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
The Pope's Senior Moment
(19 comments) The Pontiff of Rome insults indigenous peoples of Latin America and makes a white supremacist statement in the process.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
Marcus Mosiah Garvey: Black Revolutionary Hero
Celebrating the 120th birthday of a true Black Revolutionary and an analysis of the philosophy that bears his name.

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Sane, Sensible Policy
(1 comments) Immigration Issue: New Haven, Connecticut Offers Ray Of Hope; New ID Cards For Undocumented Gives Dignity To Maligned People

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Terrorism's New Face
Britain's Latest Terror Plot: What Drives Intelligent People To Murder?

Friday, July 27, 2007
Looking At Cuba One Year Without Fidel At The Helm
With Fidel Castro Sick - No Social Implosion Or Chaos

Thursday, July 26, 2007
The Immigration Debate
(2 comments) Discussing The Issues Surrounding The National Immigration Debate

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Polemics Of Marcus Garvey's Ideology
(2 comments) Garveyism Is "Black Action-Oriented" And Just As Applicable Today

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Blacks And Politics
(1 comments) Once Blacks Were Republicans, Now They Are Democrats. And Both Parties Have Not Served Their Interests.

Saturday, July 21, 2007
The Caribbean Dances With George Bush
Caribbean leaders met with President Bush in Washington in June. What's the follow up besides the photo opportunity?

 

 

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