Engaging Students in the Election

October 26, 2010 By Paul Rogat Loeb

Paul Loeb: Most campuses are relatively quiet, with students inhabiting what a University of Wisconsin Green Bay student called “a bubble of insulation,” one that leaves crucial political debates barely visible in the distance.

Enthusiasm Gap? What Enthusiasm Gap?

October 26, 2010 By Sylvia Moore

Sylvia Moore: Sometimes the ones we love need understanding and time to make things right. Obama has only had less than two years to turn around an economy and society that took the GOP 30 years to destroy. And, he is hamstrung by an archaic, corrupt and dysfunctional political system that desperately needs fundamental structural reform.

Tea Party Robber Barons

October 26, 2010 By Stanley I. Kutler

Will John Raese's mining millions buy him a Senate seat?

Stanley Kutler: The media repeatedly invoke grass roots and other code words to describe the tea party. Tell a lie often enough and it is believed. Our media wizards must realize that with the revelations of high-powered funding and the involvement of Republican operatives, the characterization of the tea party as a spontaneous, ground-up movement does not fit; nagging facts nevertheless must bow to pursuing the “colorful.”

“50 for History” GOTV for Kamala Harris!

October 25, 2010 By admin

We are one week away from making history in California by electing San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris as California’s Attorney General.

French Protestors: “Where Are You Americans?”

October 25, 2010 By Steven Hill

Steven Hill: “Where are you Americans? Why aren’t Americans out in the streets? If Americans are angry, why aren’t they out in the streets like we are?” He said something quickly to his comrades in French, then reverted back to English. “It’s like Americans have gone to sleep or something. You used to have many protests.”

Scaring Us To The Polls

October 25, 2010 By Lydia Howell

Lydia Howell: To foment fear of Democrats’ allegedly “socialist” policies, Republicans “No taxes! No spending!” (except for war and prisons) cry has been amplified to an absurd degree. Of course, there also is the now standard howl: “The Muslims will get you unless we keep ‘The War On Terror’ going at home and abroad.”

Kentucky’s Drive By Candidate

October 25, 2010 By Berry Craig

Berry Craig: So, the stark choice for Kentucky voters is this: a moderate Democrat who understands Kentucky’s problems and needs and has a plan for creating jobs versus an ideologue Republican/Tea Partier with no record, no understanding of the state and a chain saw for a plan

U.S. Wars Are Bankrupting the World

October 25, 2010 By David Swanson

Loretta Napoleoni (Photo James Duncan Davidson)

David Swanson: The endless and infinite “war on terra” is bankrupting the planet. I don’t mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy.

WikiLeaks Wins Information War: New Torture, Civilian Casualties Revealed

October 25, 2010 By Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden: Like all Americans, the Peace and Justice Resource Center needs the peeling back of secrecy covering the Pentagon’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Why Clarence Thomas Owes African-Americans an Apology

October 24, 2010 By David A. Love

David Love: When Ginni Thomas — the Tea Partying wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — left Anita Hill a voicemail message asking for an apology, she got it all wrong. It’s really Clarence Thomas who owes the apology, to the black community that is.

Oliver Stone Interview: There’s a Specter Haunting Latin America, the Specter of 21st Century Socialism

October 24, 2010 By Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell: “Frankly, we’ve opposed the poor. We’ve opposed the poor not only in those countries but in our own country. The Vietnam War was a war against the poor people of Vietnam, it was also a war against our own selves, by sending our poor people to fight that war.”

African American Youth Joblessness and the “New Normal”

October 23, 2010 By Carl Bloice

Carl Bloice: If it remains almost impossible for a couple of generations of young women and men to earn a decent living, it is calamitous for black people and the country. They cannot become the personification of the “new normal.”

Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Metaphor for No Accountability

October 23, 2010 By Georgianne Nienaber

Georgianne Nienaber: It will be astounding to see the media coverage of this event, should it unfold in all its potential horror, but where has the media been since the six-month anniversary in July?

Underrepresented African Refugees and Potential Problems with DNA Testing

October 23, 2010 By Michele Waslin

Michele Waslin: New data documenting the underrepresentation of refugees from Africa in the U.S. looks at allegations of fraudulent African family reunification applications, DNA testing programs, and its implications for U.S. refugee and immigration policy.