By Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford | Wed, 08/25/2010 | [print_link] <> A corporate offensive is rolling down upon us, aimed at wholesale privatization of the public sector. If the Left has learned anything in the last year and a half, it should be that President Obama is Wall Street’s guy, having [...]
The next time you come upon one of those revolting, overpaid, self-impressed Big Media assholes, spit in his eye. They’re accomplices to murder. Embedded corporate media rose to new heights of non-journalism as, on command, they conjured up an end to (America’s) Iraq War based on nothing more than a change of nomenclature. Combat soldiers [...]
The forces of darkness strike again…and win. Enjoy the American Middle Ages folks. If you are like me you might be wondering: Wait, did my chances for advanced research for my disease (diabetes, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s…) just get worse? Let’s do a quick recap: . In 1988, a Federal Panel approved the funding [...]
FOR MONTHS, US MEDIA REPORTS distorted and lied about its severity, running cover for BP and the Obama administration, now practically avoiding the crisis altogether as it worsens. An August 20 Inter Press Service report is revealing, quoting Biloxi, MS fisherman Danny Ross saying hypoxia (depleted oxygen) is driving horseshoe crabs, stingrays, flounder, dolphins, and [...]
Anyone worried about the revival of the Taliban ought to be hoping for the revival of the communists. By Stephen Gowans | August 9, 2010 [print_link] While worries are expressed about “women’s precarious rights in Afghanistan … seeping away” [1] there was a time when the rights of Afghan women were much stronger, and stronger still [...]
Dave Lindorff | Mon, 08/16/2010 | [print_link] New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman, in his column today, is right to expose the attacks on Social Security as being the work of right-wing ideologues eager to destroy a government program that works, backed by cowardly Democrats who want to show their fiscal “responsibility” [...]
By Paul Krugman [print_link] Social Security turned 75 last week. It should have been a joyous occasion, a time to celebrate a program that has brought dignity and decency to the lives of older Americans. PHOTO (left)-FDR signing Social Security into law. . But the program is under attack, with some Democrats as well as [...]
STEVEN JONAS, MD, MPH [print_link] . Back on March 21, 2007, in a column on The Political Junkies.net, the predecessor webmagazine to TPJmagazine.us, I speculated that perhaps the primary objective of the Iraq Invasion from the beginning was not “oil and bases” which so many of us figured it was when the war was commenced. [...]