(5 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Congressional Dems "Sit In" Is A Cynical, Hypocritical Election Year Stunt Dems Congressional "Sit-In" A Cynical, Hypocritical Election Year Stunt.

(11 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 5, 2014
A Smoking Gun: Online DEA Manuals Show How Feds Use NSA Spy Data, Train Local Cops to Construct False Chains of Evidence Whoever suggests the Snowden revelations mean nothing to the lives of ordinary black people either isn't paying close attention, or is working for the police and prison state. The federal DEA, the DOJ's federal drug police, have passed tons of illegal NSA spying data to local police agencies and cynically coached them to lie about the sources of their evidence. It's not exaggeration. You can view the manual online

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 22, 2014
MSNBC: Cherry Picking News Issues to Make Toxic Democrats Look Good Why are some stories “news” and not others? Why will NJ governor Chris Christie's antics make the top of MSNBC news broadcasts for weeks to come, while the poisoning of 300,000 people by corporate greed and government abandonment on a scale not seen since Katrina dips below the radar as soon as corrupt officials declare there's nothing to see here, nothing at all? Why do Chris Christie's follies get more air time...

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 19, 2013
What "Sanctions" Will Happen if the Rebels Are Shown To Have Used Sarin Gas? The recent agreement between the US and Russia vis a vis Syria only temporarily puts the brakes on US aggression. This article discusses why.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity with a false and misleading portrayal of the lawsuit launched by black farmers against the USDA.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 10, 2013
Obama's Race To The Top Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings Among Obama supporters, the gap between popular perceptions of the president's policies and the actual content of those policies is nowhere wider than in public education. While the president pays lip service to the centrality of public education, teachers and parent input, his Race To The Top is paving the road to privatization, closing more public schools and firing more teachers than any president in US history.

SHARE        Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Obama's FCC Intends To OK Unlimited Concentration of Radio, TV, Newspaper Ownership in Top 20 Markets Back in 2007,the George W. Bush's FCC tried to give Big Media the right to unlimited ownership of TV, radio and newspaper outlets in cities across the country. They were stopped by a timely court ruling and a firestorm of public rage. The Obama FCC intends to do in a secret proceeding before Xmas exactly what Bush could not do in 2007. Can they be stopped? Where are those who promised to hold this president's feet to the fire?

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 7, 2012
California NAACP Sells Out to Big Ag on Genetically Modified Foods When black leadership gets its legitimacy from the oppressed, but its funding from the oppressor, this is what we get. We call it the Black Misleadership Class. And why was Davey D the only black media figure we heard even asking the question? Is this the Obama phenomenon trickling down --- we don't dare question our black "representatives" because.... because.... well.... why?

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 10, 2012
Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? Where Is the Black Political Class? Corporate media in other cities don't mention massive school closings, whether in Chicago, Atlanta, NYC, or in this case Philadelphia, perhaps so people won't have given the issue much deep thought before the same crisis is manufactured in their town. Even inside Philadelphia the voices of actual parents, communities, students and teachers are shut out of most newspaper and broadcast accounts.

SHARE        Saturday, November 12, 2011
Rigged Games: Obama's Fake "Jobs Bill" is Election-Year Theater Barack Obama's job creation policies, like his foreign policies, like his environmental policies, like his stands on Clean Coal and Safe Nuclear Power, like where he is on network neutrality, genetically modified crops, and a hundred other issues, are pretty much the same as that of his Republican opponents.

(7 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 19, 2011
It's Too Late To Save The Obama Administration. Can We Still Save Ourselves? Obama should be working on how to save us from endless war, climate change and joblessness. He isn't. And he won't. It's time for us to love our own families, our own children and elders as much or more than we love his, and get busy.

SHARE        Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama & Neo-Liberalism are the Daleys' Gifts to Chicago and the Nation. Thanks. Chicago's Daley regime was a half century orgy of arrogance, racism and plunder. Thanks to President Obama, it not only continues with the succession of Rahm Emanuel to the fifth floor office of Chicago's mayor, but with nationwide implementation of disastrous policies toward housing, schools, infrastructure and public workers, all pioneered in Chicago.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 15, 2010
GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work The corporate right in this country are working overtime to create an incarceration for profit system. This diabolical plan to create corporate profits through the warehousing of human beings is being pushed hard by the Republican party and their blind allegiance to profits over human life.

SHARE        Thursday, November 11, 2010
Barack Obama, Social Security and the Final Irrelevance of the Black Misleadership Class The masters of corporate media proclaim that their raid on social security, is a done deal. "Entitlements," their code word for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, will be cut in the lame duck session of Congress, with Democratic president Barack Obama taking the lead. Though the outlines of this raid have been clear for months, what passes for black America's political leadership class have been silent.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The Supreme Court? Is This Why We Vote For Democrats? We vote for Democrats, the argument goes, because sending a Republican to the White House means sending racist conservative neanderthals to the Supreme Court. A clinching argument right? What would John McCain do? But is that the right question to ask?

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Black Politics Is Over: Black Politicians No Longer Believe Social Justice Is Possible before being sworn in, Atlanta's new mayor Kasim Reed pledged to the Chamber of Commerce he'd deal with downtown panhandlers in what he called a more "muscular" fashion. The hopes and predictions of white pundits that black political life would come to look like the rest of America have come true. But not because the inequalities in health, wealth, incarceration rates and other indices of disparity have narrowed.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 4, 2009
If Democrats Don't Pass Health Insurance Reform This Year, What Do We Lose? And What Do We Gain? The “public option” in the president's health care bill is like the “clean” in clean coal. One harnesses the awesome power of the word clean and attaches it to coal, which is anything but. Likewise Democrats deploy the rhetorical power of the words “public” as in “everybody in, nobody out” and “option” as in choice to describe an arrangement will be neither public or for most, an available option.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Why the Public Option is Doomed To Fail, and What Can Be Done About It. The generous, expansive public option on the lips of Congressional progressives, which would be open to all and compete to lower insurance prices is largely imaginary, while the president's stingy, divisive and means-tested version is all too real. But what about the third version of the public option? What is the Congressional Progressive Caucus doing to promote it, and to allow states to pursue single payer on their own?

(9 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now? Blue Dogs? Senate Dems? House Progressives? Or the White House Itself? The only obstacle to passage of the president's health care --- or health insurance legislation is the White House itself. Barack Obama knows better than any of us the difference between what he promised and what is about to be delivered.

SHARE        Friday, June 5, 2009
Sonia Maria Sotomayor -- She's No Clarence Thomas, But No Thurgood Marshall Either What is and what should be the story around the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the high court? Should we spend all our time and energy refuting the racism of Republican talking heads, and none examining her record, and how she arrived at the door of the Supreme Court? Is this a good time to explore what a just and democratic society must demand from its courts?