Nomiki Konst: Scrap the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert! Cancel the Michele Bachmann movie screening! Hurricane Isaac is billowing in, forcing the RNC to deconstruct, reevaluate and hone in on its core message: The Future.
Did Monica Lewinsky Really Save Social Security?
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Eric Laumen: Amidst the controversy of the Starr commission’s Monica Lewinsky investigation, President Clinton, a centrist through and through, was forced to fall back on the support of his party’s left-progressive wing and abandon bipartisanship.
As Afghan Fissures Worsen, Exit Plan Is Proposed
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Tom Hayden: The US military openly opposes the pace of the drawdown, which already is too slow for most Democrats and the peace movement, because the resulting panic in Kabul could cause an implosion if efforts at a diplomatic settlement bog down.
Black Leaders Rebuke Obama
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Sharon Kyle; President Obama has the wrong team Cornel West told a reporter. The poor, particularly blacks and browns are suffering under his leadership.
Obama’s Ironic Legacy Might Be That He Continued an Unconstitutional Act
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Walter Brasch: Among the provisions of the PATRIOT Act, which 277 House members apparently believe is necessary for American security, is Section 215, which allows the government to seize all library records of any individual.
Barbara Lee: We Need to Convince Obama to Campaign Against War
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Tom Hayden: President Obama needs to be convinced to “shift his political calculus” and campaign in 2012 “on a platform of ending the war in Afghanistan,” Rep. Barbara Lee told representatives of several peace organizations in a conference call on Dec. 10.
An Historical View from the “Sanctimonious” Left
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Carl Bloice: Compromising is not an inherent virtue. It is, indeed, a necessity. We do it all the time in our personal and social lives, Society would be impossible without it. The question is: compromise over what and on what?
Obama Wooing Economic Royalists
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Norman Solomon: The best way to defeat right-wing xenophobic “populism” is to build genuine progressive populism. In the process, we can draw on the spirit of the New Deal.
LA Progressive: 4 April to 10 April, 2010 — Articles
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Articles by Sikivu Hutchinson, Tom Hall, Rabbi Sara Shendelman, Michael Sigman, Georgianne Nienaber, Robert Watson, Tom Degan, John Peeler, Carl Matthes, David A. Love, Ed Rampell, Joseph Palermo, Anthony Samad, Bob Letcher, Robert Reich, Jasmyne A. Cannick, Tina Dupuy, Randy Shaw, Andrea Christina Nill, Ron Wolff, Paul Hogarth, Robert Reich, Ivan Eland, David A. Love, Marcy Winograd, Andrea Christina Nill, Michele Waslin, Walter Moss, and Sharon Kyle
Reconciliation Is Conventional, Not Nuclear
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Richard M. Mathews: With the death of the public option in the Senate version of the health care reform bill, more attention is being paid to the budget reconciliation process. The House-Senate conference could bring back the public option, but a filibuster could still kill it. The reconciliation process would allow the bill to pass with a simple majority of 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
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