Extreme Right 3, American People 0

January 24, 2011 By Jim Fuller

Jim Fuller: With Olberman gone, MSNBC is left with Rachel Maddow, its number two star up to now, and Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell. The network executives, for a time anyway, will be comfortable with that lineup.

American Competitiveness, and the President’s New Relationship with American Business

January 24, 2011 By Robert Reich

Robert Reich: President Obama must not be seduced into believing — and must not allow the public to be similarly seduced into thinking — that the well-being of American business is synonymous with the well-being of Americans.

GOP Austerity Plan Targets Blacks and Latinos

January 24, 2011 By David A. Love

David Love: This new wave of austerity is a con game, and it’s racist too. Now is the time to reverse the trend and restore equity, justice and sanity to America’s economic system.

Requiem for the American Worker

January 24, 2011 By Bill Londrigan

Bill Londrigan: We can look back and see the carnage that the corporate war on workers and their unions has wrought: a decline in wages, benefits, unions and jobs–while corporations and the wealthiest one-percent have amassed the largest concentrations of wealth in history.

Throwaway Children

January 24, 2011 By Sikivu Hutchinson

Sikivu Hutchinson: Brilliant youth of color are automatically condemned to second class citizenship and social pathology. The real epidemic of violence lies in this false indictment.

The Forgotten Jobless and Our Future

January 24, 2011 By Mark Vorpahl

Mark Vorpahl: As in the 1930s, today we must organize in a way that creates unity between the employed and unemployed. To start, we can organize the largest possible union-led demonstrations to realize this unity in the streets.

Help Stop the Koch Brothers and Glenn Beck

January 23, 2011 By Peter Dreier

Peter Dreier: For years Glenn Beck has spewed lies about Fran Piven, a distinguished political sceintist and sociologist. In recent months, Beck has escalated the rhetoric against Piven, which has led to a growing chorus of death threats against her. It is time to challenge the right-wing forces like Glenn Beck, Fox News, the Tea Party and the billionaires like the Koch brothers who fund them. We have an opportunity on January 30th.

Glenn Beck’s Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats

January 23, 2011 By Peter Dreier

Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck has escalated his hate campaign against Frances Fox Piven, calling her one of the “nine most dangerous people in the world,” and “an enemy of the Constitution.”

Dear Mr. Smith, Your Pants Are on Fire: Sincerely, the Facts

January 22, 2011 By Michele Waslin

Michele Waslin: Until we focus on policy reforms that improve our immigration system in an honest, fair and effective way instead of disseminating myths and misinformation that divide us, we are destined to keep spinning our wheels with no real improvements to our system.

Breaking China—Legally

January 22, 2011 By Walter M. Brasch

Walter Brasch: Although China is the world’s second largest economic power behind the U.S. and this country’s largest creditor, there is no need to fear either its economy or its military power. It has already sown the seeds of its own destruction.

A Time for Action — Not Servility

January 22, 2011 By Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen: While Washington pundits are talking up a new civility, many progressives are bracing for the old servility — a bipartisanship that is servile to a corporate elite that is unquenchably greedy and more powerful than ever.

Can’t Wait to Hear What He Had in His Hand This Time

January 22, 2011 By Anthony Asadullah Samad

Anthony Samad: The LAPD shot and killed another Black man. Why weren’t two trained law enforcement officers able to subdue an unarmed, naked man? I’d like to know how this happened. I just wanna know what he had in his hand that would justify the use of lethal force.

All LAUSD Students Deserve Equality of Education

January 22, 2011 By Yolie Flores

Yolie Flores: If we truly are committed to an equal education for all children, we must leave behind old and entrenched political agendas and policies and embrace the truths that every child deserves a great teacher and that great teachers must be cultivated, supported, fairly but properly evaluated, and more justly compensated.

Citizens United Turns 1: Supreme Court Considers Corporate Personhood Again

January 22, 2011 By Marian Wang -- Pro Publica

Marian Wang: Kagan’s successor as solicitor general, Neal Katyal, has argued that “a corporation itself can no more be embarrassed, harassed, or stigmatized than a stone.”

The Jasmine Revolution: Testing Time for the White House

January 21, 2011 By Carl Bloice

Carl Bloice: To do something meaningful the Obama Administration must go beyond lecturing the local establishment leaders about human rights and political plurality. It must be to move to respond positively to the aspiration of the kids with the rocks in the streets. It should not involve telling the Pakistanis how to price gas.