How To Justify Any Action: Eliminate The Victim
Last week, with the release of the summary of the CIA torture report, one“expert” after another was trounced onto every television news agency in America. Even Dick Cheney got his chance to defend the...
View ArticleObama's Attack On Civil Liberties
When President Obama took Office almost six years ago, he entered the presidency with promises of Government accountability and transparency. Since then, President Obama has presided over a Justice...
View ArticleEconomic Justice
In 2014, New York City and Ferguson, Missouri brought race issues into the spotlight as police violence and brutality came to define the year, but it does it have to define our future?The last few...
View ArticlePoverty
Poverty issues are more important than ever. Whether you are a woman or a man. Whether you are rich or poor, black or white, or even a small business owner. Poverty is an issue that we all have a stake...
View Article2015: Please Save Our Schools!!!
2014 was the year of "School Reform," the ridiculous excuse for states and cities across the country to privatize the Public School system and the implementation of more high-stakes tests through...
View Article2015 Please Save Our Schools!!! Part: 2
In part one of my essay on schools, I shared a high school experience in which I had been given a chance by my teacher to supplement my class grade with my final exam scores. After spending the...
View ArticleWhite House Threatens Veto On Keystone XL
The White House Tuesday announced that President Obama would likely Veto a bill fast-tracking the Keystone XL project if it makes it to the president's desk."This legislation is not all too different...
View ArticleDon't Let The Religious Right Co-Opt Terrorist Attacks
We in the Western world are deeply aggrieved and horrified by the terrorist attack that killed 12 at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. A sickening display of jihadist hate,...
View ArticleSay: Thank You, Mitch McConnell!
Republicans never cease to amaze me when it comes to their statements on the economy. They seem to provide an endless trove of laughable comments from which to quote from, and this week was no...
View ArticleFinancial Transaction Tax: Making A Come Back?
When incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo ran for reelection in fall 2014, he faced a surprising amount of push-back on the left and the right. In the fight for the Democratic party's nomination, a strong...
View ArticleLet Us Remember...
Back on this day, the 18th of January in 2003, millions of Americans and people across the world protested the invasion of Iraq by American and coalition forces. For the next few months protests would...
View ArticleSen. Tom Cotton: "We need to bomb poeple over there so that poeple are safe...
This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Newly minted Senator Tom Cotton R. Arkansas, blamed President Obama for ISIS and the mess in Iraq. Even worse, he goes on to say in response to Howard Dean's...
View ArticleWhat Syriza Has To Teach American Progressives
By definition Syriza means Coalition Of The Left. Today's American left might do to take a lesson from the sudden emergence and successes of Syriza within the Greek Left. Today's American left, after...
View ArticleDo You Take Dietary Supplements? Well, Enjoy The Powdered Rice!
Today on the Headline of the New York Times Website, the New York Attorney Generals Office sent cease and desist letters to four major retailers, accusing them of selling fraudulent Dietary...
View ArticleSupply Side Vs. Keynesianism
Anytime you turn on Fox news or NBC Business, you might here some Supply-Sider telling you how government is standing in the way of Businesses. You'll likely here examples of how Scott Walker or Rick...
View ArticleISIS And The Press
Newspapers and media outlets the world over have been known to play down potentially important news when it suits them. When there is an Oil Spill in Louisiana, or a Government Defense contractor...
View ArticleMy Feelings on Hillary
I have often been critical of Hillary Clinton. My concerns, the more I think about it, stem more from Bill Clinton's actions than with Hillary's. Especially with regard to welfare reform, NAFTA, and...
View ArticleThe Strangling Government Strategy
If it isn't clear by now, then someone's been avoiding the news at all costs. The Republican strategy for the last few decades now, has been to slowly but surely strangle government until a tipping...
View ArticleWhy Nuclear Annihilation Is Becoming More Likely
It is now three minutes to midnight, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which is warning that the end of humanity may be nigh. The group behind the famed "Doomsday Clock" announced at a...
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