by Stephen Lendman Tea Party.org calls itself “a grassroots movement (for making Americans aware of) any issue that challenges the security, sovereignty, or domestic tranquility of our beloved nation, the United States of America. From our founding, the Tea Party is the voice of the true owners of the United States, WE THE PEOPLE.” More [...]
By BAR editor and columnist Jared A. Ball | 10/12/2010 [print_link] Just because millions of people can interact at the speed of light, does not mean they are going anywhere. Indeed, by providing the illusion of common action, social media tend to suppress the kind of methodical organizing necessary to sustain a real “movement.” [...]
THE GROWING STRUGGLES OF THE WORKING CLASS IN EUROPE and internationally against mass unemployment and government austerity policies are exposing the reality behind the façade of bourgeois democracy. In every country, the government, whether conservative or nominally “left,” is cutting jobs and wages and slashing social programs in complete disregard for the overwhelming opposition of [...]
By Stephen Lendman THEY ARE COMMONPLACE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, at times through what Edward Herman calls “Demonstration Elections,” the title of his 1980 book on sham ones in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Vietnam. They also occur regularly in countries like Egypt, where for the past 20 years president Hosni Mubarak has gotten around [...]
Submitted by La Botz for Senate on October 4, 2010 Frequently asked questions about whether or not to vote for the Democrats or to support a Socialist, Green or progressive independent candidate. Dan La Botz is the Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. He is a member of both the Socialist Party [...]
By David Michael Greene | October 16. 2010 [print_link] Oh my god. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. This is far worse than I thought. . I’ve been struggling to understand the implosion of the Obama presidency over the last two years, trying to peel back the layers of the theoretical onion, [...]
By BAR executive editor Glen Ford | 10/13/2010 [print_link] The more the Wall Street financial class dominates political affairs in the United States, the sooner they will meet destruction. By giving the banksters everything they wanted, including free money, the Obama administration actually accelerated the processes of finance capital’s decline. That’s because, unfettered, capital behaves in [...]
Sign in store window in “Ho Chi Minh City” (Saigon) By Robert McElvaine | October 13, 2010 . [print_link] Understanding what happened in Vietnam 40-plus years ago is a matter of great interest as Americans consider the future of our involvement in Afghanistan. Last November, Newsweek ran a cover story titled, “How We (Could Have) Won [...]
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