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MICHAEL D. ROBERTS is a top Political Strategist and Business, Management and Communications Specialist 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.
Monday, January 16, 2012 Beautifying Racism
The GOP And The Myth Of A Post-Racial Society;The Old Days Of "Coded And Loaded" Words Ended When Barack Obama Became President Of The USA
Sunday, January 8, 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man, His Times And His Message (1 comments)
Celebrating The 83rd Birthday Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968;Influenced By Christian Social Activism, King Was Perhaps Its Greatest Proponent
Thursday, January 5, 2012 American Idol On Steroids (1 comments)
How Republican Politics Have Degenerated: Theater Of The Absurd
Thursday, January 5, 2012 The Iowa Republican Tea Party Caucus (2 comments)
Racism, Ignorance And Prejudice On Display;How Ordinary White Americans Are Led Like Dumb, Driven Cattle By Conniving "Leaders"
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Clinton, Haiti And Martelly
Haiti's 208 Years Of Independence:Unfulfilled Promises, Desperation And Serious Challenges Ahead
Thursday, December 22, 2011 No Revolution In Arab World (1 comments)
Arab Spring: Mass Popular Anti-Government Uprisings
Thursday, December 22, 2011 Racism As A Modern Construct (2 comments)
I don't see sagging pants, bling-bling jewelry, gold teeth and illiteracy as somehow being related to my cultural improvement and empowerment
Thursday, December 22, 2011 A Progressive Revolt (1 comments)
The Case Of The Tunisian Uprising
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Understanding American Racism (1 comments)
The Obama Presidency Helped To Expose The Fallacy That Racism Is Dead
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 The Overton Window Fanatics
Lunacy Unleashed;How The Hitherto Unthinkable Ideas Have Now Gone Mainstream
Monday, June 13, 2011 Sound And Fury (4 comments)
The Republican Presidential Debate: Demonizing President Obama
Monday, May 9, 2011 The Retribution Narrative (2 comments)
The Rise Of The Imperial Presidency;The Osama Bin Laden Killing And American Jurisprudence
Sunday, April 10, 2011 The United States In An Age Of Extremism
The Politics Of Fear And Self-Aggrandizement;
How To Lie And Confuse Americans To Control Political Power
Friday, April 8, 2011 Imperial Realignment
Understanding The New Global Realities;Disguising Naked Aggression And Military Intervention Using United Nations Cover
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Unrest Is not Revolution
The Arab Middle East Crisis;How A Hitherto Loaded Political Word Is Now Fashionable
Saturday, February 5, 2011 Class, Counter-Revolution And The Vanguard Party
Egypt's Fragile Revolution and the Rise of Reaction;The Ruling Elite Is More Organized And Will Respond Viciously To Repress A Popular Uprising
Saturday, February 5, 2011 Why Black History Is important (3 comments)
Racism Is The Millstone Around The Necks Of Both Black and White People
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 The Rise Of The Mimic Men (And Women) (1 comments)
The 2011-2012 Political Agenda And The Political/Media Complex;Spin, Attacks And "Manufactured Consent" Will Drive Quest For The White House
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Egypt People's Revolution
The United States, The Middle East and Politics;Events Caught The West Napping And Still Unable To Understand What Is Happening And Why
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Obama's Political Triangulation
Little Different From The Republican Party Agenda; Move To The Canter Reminiscent Of Bill Clinton
Monday, January 17, 2011 Revisionism And Hypocrisy (4 comments)
The Tea Party Movement and Its New Delusion
Monday, January 17, 2011 King's Timeless Wisdom (1 comments)
Celebrating The 82nd Birthday Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968); Influenced By Christian Social Activism, King Was Perhaps Its Greatest Proponent
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Guns AND People Kill (6 comments)
Lessons Of The Arizona Shootings
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Poor Out In The Cold
The Obama-Republican Tax Compromise Beyond The Hype:Despite The Spin Blacks And Minorities Will Not Benefit
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Rise Of The Lumpen (2 comments)
Haiti's Botched And Tarnished Presidential Elections;A Fickle and Illiterate Strata Is Exploited By Politicians Since The Days Of Papa Doc Duvalier
Thursday, December 2, 2010 The WikiLeaks Brouhaha
When Internet Postings Spark Calls To Name Website A Terrorist Organization
Thursday, November 18, 2010 Dentist X For Police Commissioner (1 comments)
New York City Public Education And Mayor Bloomberg's Chancellor Pick;How Square Pegs Ending In Round Holes Do Not Apply To Elites
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 The People Spoke. But What Did They Say? (1 comments)
Contrary To Prevailing Punditry The Mid-Term Elections Was No Referendum On The President's Agenda;The Way Forward For President Obama's Supporters And The Democratic Party
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Democracy By Illusion (3 comments)
Media Manipulation,Big Money And Subjective Politics Will Define The New American Reality
Friday, November 5, 2010 Huckabee, Bachman Lie Again (2 comments)
Republicans Waste No Time In New "Dirty Tricks"
Thursday, November 4, 2010 Simple Issue: About President Obama's Leadership (4 comments)
The U.S. Mid-Term Election Results And Republican Rout;Democratic Half Measures, Vacillation, Extremism And Obstructionism Defined The Process
Thursday, October 21, 2010 Extreme Stupidity (1 comments)
Justice Clarence Thomas' Wife "Senior Moment," Jacked Up And Delusional
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 The Season Of Lunatics
Christine O'Donnell and the Lunatic Fringe
Sunday, October 17, 2010 The Independent Voter Myth (6 comments)
Focus On The Upcoming Mid-Term Elections;This Voting Bloc Is No More Independent As Are Democrats Or Republicans
Saturday, October 16, 2010 The Illogic of Anger and Extremism (2 comments)
The Idiocy Of America's Present Political Climate;Noise,Not News, Drives The Political-Media Complex Of Today
Saturday, October 16, 2010 Forgotten Nation
10 Months After The Haitian Earthquake Of 2010;Off The World's Radar Screen The Haitian Situation Is Still Very Dire
Sunday, October 3, 2010 Rhetoric, Noise And Anger (2 comments)
The One Nation Rally: Historic And Timely;ButIn The End Rally Was A Loud Statement About National Dissatisfaction And Disillusionment
Monday, August 9, 2010 The Age Of Rage Continues (11 comments)
The Attack On The American Constitution;In The Age Of Obama His Opponents Increasingly Use Bigotry And Racism To Define Politics In America
Thursday, July 29, 2010 The Age Of Rage
Sign Of The Times: Black Social Collateral Damage;Rushing To Judgment On Flimsy Pretexts Are Now The Norm
Thursday, July 29, 2010 The Age Of Rage
Sign Of The Times: Black Social Collateral Damage;Rushing To Judgment On Flimsy Pretexts Are Now The Norm
Sunday, July 18, 2010 Obama, Color And Masculinity (2 comments)
A New American Discourse: Why Race And Old Stereotypes Still Need Confronting
Thursday, July 1, 2010 What Did South Africa Get?
The 2010 World Cup And Mass Escapism;No Matter The Hype And Vuvuzelas South Africa's Poor No Better Off
Thursday, July 1, 2010 What Did South Africa Get?
The 2010 World Cup And Mass Escapism;No Matter The Hype And Vuvuzelas South Africa's Poor No Better Off
Thursday, June 17, 2010 Joe Burton's Unhinged Gibberish (1 comments)
Bought And Paid For By Big Oil Even Republican Colleagues Give Him Arms Length
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 What He Did Not Say
President Barack Obama's Prime Time Oil Spill Speech;As His Speeches Go This One Was Great But With Some Disappointments
Sunday, June 6, 2010 Counting Unhatched Chickens (1 comments)
The Looming Mid-Term Elections And The Republican Party;The GOP Is Banking On America's Anger And Fear To Retake The Congress
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Politics Of Victimhood (2 comments)
The World Is Tired Of IsrBel's Holocaust Syndrome, Its "blame-the-Victim" Spin That Is Used To Cover Up Its Belligerence
Monday, May 31, 2010 Obama's Rightward Immigration Shift
389,000 Deportations In 2009, Mexican Border Fences And Little Else;The Ugly Realities Of A Failed US Immigration Policy
Friday, May 28, 2010 Criminal Actions (2 comments)
The BP Oil Spill;The Obama Commission Of Inquiry Is A Joke; This Matter Should Be In Court
Thursday, May 27, 2010 The Roots Of Jamaica's Deadly Violence
The Modern Day Manifestation Of Garrison Violence Is The End-Result Of A Deliberate Set Of Socio-Economic and Political Policies
Saturday, May 22, 2010 Wordsmiths And The Delusional (2 comments)
The New Political Catch Phrases And Buzz Words;
Code Words Used In Modern Politics To Stoke Fear And Xenophobia
Saturday, May 22, 2010 Simple Math; Hard Politics
An Analysis Of The Just Concluded Primary Elections;Party Primaries Are Very Different From General Elections So Hold The Celebrations
Friday, May 14, 2010 Politics And Facts In The Age Of Obama (6 comments)
When Lies Trump Truth:
Mainstream Media And Political Commentators Now Lie Consciously And Routinely To A Gullible Public
Monday, May 3, 2010 No, Its Not Obama's Katrina (9 comments)
Defending President Obama From Wing-Nuts,Liars And Spin Doctors
Thursday, April 22, 2010 The Reality Of Politics Today In America (7 comments)
Arrogance, Fear And Anger; No Political Compromises, Pervasive Hostility And Hard Positions
Sunday, April 18, 2010 Obama's Bold Political Gambit: Triangulation (7 comments)
The Politics Of Triangulation;
Borrowing A Page From Bill Clinton's Political Play Book Fraught With Serious Repercussions
Thursday, November 26, 2009 Generals Not Always Right (2 comments)
Why President Obama Must Take His Time On Afghanistan;32 Years Ago Another Young President Had To Make Similar Decisions
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
