When will the cheering stop?

Obama’s brand of demagogy has retarded progress toward a genuine renewal in American politics. The time for fantasies is over. A new movement must now come to the fore, and fresh political strategies must be introduced. By Patrice Greanville  January 26, 2010 [print_link] The focus of this oped—marking exactly one year since Obama’s inauguration–is the [...]

ARCHIVES—Speciesism: Alive and Well

Animals In Print The On-Line Newsletter From 8 April 2009 Issue Speciesism: the belief in the inherent superiority of one species over another. By Edward S. Duvin [originally penned in 1992] [print_link] To many of us, fighting this bias is the principal reason we became involved in the animal liberation movement, but this quest for [...]

Wall Street’s Mercenaries Ride Donkeys

By David Swanson | September 13, 2010 [print_link] Robert Scheer’s new book “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street,” is not yet another account of how we got robbed or “why the economy imploded for dummies.” If you’re like me, you just didn’t need another [...]

“Millions Stand Behind Him”

ANTI-NAZI poster, denouncing the German industrialists’ support for the Nazis BACKGROUND: Here is a magazine cover designed by the German artist John Heartfield, a pioneer artist and socialist at heart, created in 1932 that showed his satirical approach against the Nazis who controlled Germany. He took a photo of Hitler saluting and combined it with [...]

Our long national nightmare isn’t over, it’s just beginning

For decades the nation’s plutocracy has worked unceasingly to foster fear, mass stupidity, hatred, and ignorance. Now the ugly harvest is at hand. By David Michael Green [print_link] In the 1930s, the only thing we had to fear was fear, itself. Today, the main thing we have to fear is us, ourselves.  Looking out over [...]

The President’s Debt Commission

By Ernest Stewart “Social Security is “a milk cow with 310 million tits. It’s for the ‘lesser people’ of society.” ~~ Alan (Cat Food) Simpson. . “Yet no one can doubt President Bush’s support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security.”~~~Barack Obama ~~~ The land of the boll weevil, [...]

Labor Day as Memorial Holiday; Middle Class R.I.P.

By Rob Kall | September 5, 2010 [print_link]  Obama, the Dems in congress– they’ve sold out the middle class. If you’re making more than a million a year, go ahead, celebrate labor day. Otherwise, get off your butt and use the day to get active and fight for the future of the middle class, because it is [...]

ARCHIVES: The Origins of the Overclass

A MAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE TRUTH IS JUST AN IDIOT BUT A MAN WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH AND CALLS IT A LIE IS A CROOK! –BERTOLT BRECHT A man is nothing else but what he makes of himself! –Jean-Paul Sartre BY STEVE KANGAS†, The Origins of the Overclass (1998) [print_link]  The wealthy have always [...]

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