During the presidential campaign, any complaints about the lack of a progressive focus in Barack Obama’s stances on public issues were deflected with the observation that those of the Republican ticket were so much worse, so that progressives were morally obligated to vote for the Democratic one as the “lesser of the two evils.” The [...]
A time of transition to a new presidency is always a period of reflection on our national future and a time to consider the sources of the problems that come from our past. The “yes we can” slogan of the Obama campaign and the enthusiasm for a history that supposedly will begin as soon as [...]
by Shannon Joyce Prince Remember back seven years ago to the aftermath of September 11th when the world was divided into the good and the axis of evil, those who had democracy and those whose envy of it drove them to murderous fundamentalism? Remember the charge of the extreme right – that anybody who didn’t [...]
Lets see, oh yes. On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas, the crime of (that old) century. For the last 17 years of said century, my mind was largely engrossed in research on that crime, in an interval in which (between 1984 and 2001), I edited and published The [...]
By Glen Ford So far this year, at least two dozen vessels have been boarded and seized by armed men off the coast of Somalia, the latest a Saudi Arabian supertanker capable of carrying two million barrels of oil. I’m avoiding using the term “pirates” because there is lots of piracy going on in Somali [...]
As we prepare to celebrate, mourn, support or oppose the people whom we have just elected and the referendum proposals we have enacted in the last elections, it may be useful to pause to contemplate the problems associated with these and all other elections. I like to say: “the election is over, let the campaign [...]
Last weekend, Common Dreams published still another in its endless string of fluff pieces about Barack Obama, first as a candidate and now as President-elect. The current fluff was a piece by iconic “left wing” historian Howard Zinn and called “Obama’s Historic Victory.” The persisting “progressive” enthusiasm about the election of Obama, despite his almost-unbroken [...]
By Margaret Kimberley The difficult task of bringing a skunk to the post-election celebration is left to the same people who have chosen critical thought over self-induced hypnosis for the past year. Within a mere 24 hours of being elected president, Barack Obama told this group they were right all along. The first major transition [...]
Copied below is the text of part of a message I received today from Nita Chaudhary, of the Political Action Committee of MoveOn.org. This follows by a couple of days an offer of a “free” commemorative sticker, an offer about which I wrote in my last posting. As the reader can see, MoveOn has upped [...]
MoveOn.org continues to take an interest in my welfare. After assuring me before the election that I would be PERSONALLY responsible if Obama were to lose the election and urging me to perpetrate that same message on my friends, the organization now takes a kinder and gentler approach. That election having been secured for Dear [...]
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