"MOVE ON"Ā I recently spoke aboutĀ impeachment to aĀ major Democratic political operative.Ā I didn't raise the topic.Ā He did.Ā Ā The current president's war…
“If Cheney-Bush can’t be impeached, nobody can.” – Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report, June 20, 2007 Ā “Whether ours shall be a…
A VICIOUS CHARGE Ā I have some dark reflections on culpability, class, empire, loss and human psychology.Ā Ā The historian Andrew Bacjevich…
“We want to continue to export democracy, but we want to deliver it in digestible steps” Ā Ā – Hillary Clinton on the…
Tomorrow is the two hundred andĀ thirty first (231st)Ā anniversary of the Declaration ofĀ Independence (DOI), a document thatĀ linked the United States' struggle for independence…
ObamaĀ dropped the ball.Ā You could see it in the eyes of the predominantly elite black audience members at the historically black Howard…
“THE ESSENCE OF AMERICAN POLITICS” The essence of American politics,” the formerly Left Christopher Hitchens noted in his 1999 study…
My ongoing assault on the Obama campaign continues.Ā Please see my latest effort, titled āObama’s White Appealā in the excellent left newsletter…
One of the things a Left writer, speaker and activist has to get used to in the U.S. is that almost nothing…
When I write and speak I often strive to make important connections that ideological authorities tend to hide between seemingly disparate and…
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