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MICHAEL DERK ROBERTS
Small Business Consultant, Editor, and Social Media & Communications Expert, New York
Over the past 20 years I've been a top SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTANT and POLITICAL CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST in Brooklyn, New York, running successful campaigns at the City, State and Federal levels. I'm a published author and award-winning journalist. I've been honored and recognized for my deep, hard-hitting analytical work on socio-economic and political issues confronting the United States in general and New York City in particular. I'm he Senior Consultant, COMMONSENSE STRATEGIES (www.commonsensestrategies.biz ), a Marketing, Social Media & Communications company based in Brooklyn. I also host two weekly podcasts at www.blogtalkradio.com/shangoking .The first, aired on Saturday mornings is called BTS -- Business, Technology and Social Media and the second, The Roberts Report, is aired on Sundays. You can also follow me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mdvroberts. (347) 279-6668.
SHARE Sunday, May 17, 2020 Conspiracy Thinking and the "Alternative Political Universe"
For all of Mr. Trump's crowing about his base, the fact is that he deeply despises them. They do not belong in his world, class and don't dare go to any of his many luxury hotels or casinos.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 5, 2020 American "Exceptionalism" And COVID-19
Today the MAGA crowd have gotten their "exceptionalism" wish as the United States leads the world in this global and deadly pandemic, racing well past other nations in the numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 3, 2020 American Capitalism, working class and COVID-19
Today, we see the desperate policies of a panic-driven government whose response to an invisible enemy is throwing huge amounts of money at a collapsed economy.
SHARE Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Weaponizing a Pandemic
But there is no need for facts when peddling conspiracy theories or weaponizing a pandemic.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 19, 2020 COVID-19 and The Cost Of Medicine For Profit
We need to look no further than the issue of ventilators and their short supply to understand what Americans are facing relative to the global pandemic.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 15, 2020 The Coronavirus and a Kakistocracy Like No Other
The Trump Presidency has degenerated into a bumbling, inefficient, toady-centric kakistocracy where "up is down, and "down is up," and truth is what he and is yes men and women say it is.
SHARE Sunday, March 1, 2020 CARICOM and The CORONAVIRUS
A Nightmare Scenario Looms. The Caribbean MUST put preparations to combat the virus in place NOW
SHARE Friday, February 7, 2020 Grenada Independence - Still Moving On
Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique today depends on its service industry tourism - as the foundation of the economy.
SHARE Friday, February 7, 2020 Tuff Gong Still Rules - Remembering Bob Marley at 75
Marley's classic reggae offering, "One Love" expresses the deeply spiritual and social code of Jamaican Rastafarianism - "One God, One Aim, One Destiny."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 30, 2020 Caribbean Hypocrisy
Was the Pompeo Conference in Jamaica aimed at dividing CARICOM? Yes, without a doubt.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 14, 2020 The "Holy" Hypocrites Among Us
And today, American Christianity is right at home with unmitigated and unadulterated hypocrisy. So, pardon me if I do not believe.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 3, 2020 Why Christianity Sucks
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 10, 2019 American Socialism - The Facts, Not the Fiction
The United States of America like every other western nation with an advanced economy, such as the Great Britain, Germany, France, and Japan is already a partly socialist country, with a mixed economy and any number of government programs and services that serve the public good.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 31, 2019 The China Model - Lessons To Be Learned
Yes, the fundamental fact is that China is a very different nation that plays by its own set of political and economic rules. That's what so irks and galls those who wholeheartedly embrace western capitalist "free market" systems in the context of liberal democracies.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 15, 2019 Capitalism: Not For Black People
I contend that capitalism is far more than an economic system. Capitalism is a ruling class ideology that is institutionalized for the practice and purpose of governing and controlling the relationships between groups of people and between individuals (the capitalists).
SHARE Thursday, August 8, 2019 The Slippery Slope Of "Domestic Terrorism"
The inherent danger in formalizing and codifying the created and manufactured designation of " domestic terrorism" and the potential for the U.S. Congress to greatly expand and enhance this from its already wide interpretation is that it could be used to justify just about anything.