by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Forget your rights. As corporate overlords position themselves to seize what little remains of a tattered social net (adieu Medicare and Medicaid! Social Security? Au revoir!), the Obama administration is moving at break-neck speed to expand police state programs first stood-up by the Bush government.
BY MIKE STIMPSON, Roundtree7 With Select Original Comments Many, many moons ago, I heard a professor in a poli sci course glibly say socialists think everyone should finish a foot race at the same time. I told him a better metaphor would be that capitalism is a party where everyone is invited with full knowledge [...]
By Black Agenda Report [BAR] executive editor Glen Ford “A consciously Black opposition to the First Black President, on issues of peace and economic justice, is taking shape.” Some of the players “on tour”: Cynthia McKinney’s “Eyewitness Libya” tour; Tavis Smiley and Cornel West’s “Poverty Tour”; and Congressional Black Caucus efforts to put distance between [...]
PEOPLE LONG DENIED A VOICE, LONG EXPLOITED AND INSULTED AND REPRESSED, finally explode in what the ruling orders and their shills in the media are wont to call “mindless violence”. But is it? The brother in this video may not have the polish of an Eton-educated politician, and he may meander a bit, and he [...]