Articles by Norman Solomon Jerry Drucker Michele Waslin, Robert Letcher, Brad Parker, Ed Rampell, Shamus Cooke, Ivan Eland, Robert Reich, Robert Fuller, Michelle Alexander, Andrea Christina Nill, David Love, Paul Hogarth, Randy Shaw, Robert Letcher, Joseph Palermo, Andrew Glikson, Stuart Wolpert, Berry Craig, Ron Wolff, David Lee McMullen Sherwood Ross Robert Reich, Tom Hall, and Joseph Palermo.
On Strategizing Progressive Social Change: Start with “It Won’t Be Easy”
February 27, 2010 By
Robert Letcher: Heck! Just talking about progressive social change is difficult. If I try to “tell it like it is”, it’s too complicated for many people to comprehend, and for some people who think that anything worth knowing should require no effort from them to understand it.
The GOP’s Free Speech Is Now Free Lies
February 27, 2010 By
The No and Know Nothing Party, aka the Greedy Obstructionist Prevaricators, started building their latest successful Corporate Ponzi Scheme by using their upside-down pyramid assault (trickle up) on America. Some 30 years ago with the onset of Ronald Reagan, the Conservatives and mega Corporations realized what they offered the people needed to be disguised, since [...]
War Politics: Numb and Number
February 27, 2010 By
Norman Solomon: While the escalating disaster of war in Afghanistan keeps setting deadly blazes, the few anti-war voices on Capitol Hill usually sound like people whispering “Fire!”
E-Verify Gets It Wrong, Again
February 27, 2010 By
Michele Waslin: Those inaccuracy rates are huge because they mean that U.S. citizens and other legal workers are losing their jobs because E-Verify made a mistake—and, consequently, that unauthorized workers are working because E-Verify made a mistake. Of course, many more unauthorized workers are working “off the books” and never getting checked by E-Verify.
Friday Feedback: Elephant Crossing a Tightrope
February 27, 2010 By
The Tea Party people are already claiming credit for Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts a couple weeks ago. They are determined to steer the course of the GOP in November, come hell or high water. If they are allowed control of the party, their extremism will only turn off a huge segment of the voting population. If they are denied that opportunity, they will splinter off into third and even fourth party uprisings. Have you ever watched an elephant try to walk a tightrope? It’s more fun than a barrel of donkeys!
Learning From History: Can the U.S. Win the Afghan War?
February 26, 2010 By
Ivan Eland: Unfortunately for the United States in Afghanistan, however, the label of “foreign occupier” is an albatross the U.S. will likely never be able to shake or mitigate. Although the Taliban is often brutal (but may now be toning this down in its own realization that it must win greater public support) and unpopular, so is the U.S. occupation and the corrupt client government of Hamid Karzai.
Crony’s Triangulating Fog: Grifters, Greed and the Gullible Americans
February 26, 2010 By
Brad Parker: Americans, behavior-modified to trust advertising, swimming in the dead pool of propaganda environmentally disguised as benign advertising and Infotainment, continue to cop to the Triangulating Fog Machine’s all sizzle no steak obfuscation. The only question left to ask, now that the confidence game is more widely known, is – will they keep buying it like a beaten dog or wake up and demand their money and government back?
Bust Up the Health Insurance Trusts
February 26, 2010 By
Robert Reich: Regardless of what happens at the White House’s health care meeting , we’ve got to make sure health insurers compete for every one of our dollars. The Federal Trade Commission should launch an investigation immediately, and end the health care trusts.
Mau Mau, Marx and Coca Cola: 18th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival
February 26, 2010 By
Ed Rampell: Probably the most controversial film screened this year at PAFF was the Australian doc Stolen, which, according to co-director Daniel Fallshaw, started out as a documentary about the plight of people in refugee camps as a result of the West Sahara liberation movement against Morocco led by the Polisario. But, he said, in the process of filming Fallshaw and co-director Violeta Ayala purportedly stumbled upon something quite unsettling: the existence of slavery in these resettlement centers, with some Blacks owned by Arabs in the camps.
Drive to Eliminate Social Security Accelerates
February 26, 2010 By
Shamus Cooke: The nonchalance which Friedman calls for cutting Social Security is indicative of the climate in Washington, where the last remnants of liberalism have been suffocated under the heavy demands of profit-hungry corporations, especially financial institutions and big banks.
Blueprint for a Majority Third Party
February 25, 2010 By
Robert Fuller: Given the dysfunctional state of American politics, the need for a path that Right and Left can travel together is urgent. If conservatives and liberals cannot subordinate their partisan agendas to the common good, world leadership will pass to nations that do manage to transcend this obsolete ideological dichotomy.
Chuck Grassley Claims ‘Illegal Workers’ And Their Employers Will Benefit From Jobs Bill’
February 25, 2010 By
Andrea Christina Nill: despite his concerns relating to foreign workers, Grassley has already asserted that he isn’t interested in working towards a productive solution that involves even touching a “general immigration reform bill” with a ten-foot pole.
Tiger Didn’t Apologize for Dubai’s Slave Labor
February 25, 2010 By
David Love: With an economic and political crisis afoot in this crumbling empire, it seems that this salacious celebrity gossip is nothing more than that–a media-created distraction to help us forget how bad things really are in America. This is a sideshow, like the gladiator games in Rome, or feeding the Christians to the lions.
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Where Have All the Black Men Gone?
Michelle Alexander: They’re missing in churches, missing from their families, missing from college campuses, and absent from work. Black women can’t find a man to marry. Black children don’t know where to find their fathers. Where are those guys?