By Glen Ford They were pilgrims, one million African Americans bent on fulfilling a solemn, silly, tearful, giddy, deep-felt, mindless, gotta-be-there obligation. They were the faithful, the heretics, the high priests and low-lifes, the innocent and the guilty-as-sin. All were committed to a once (or, at least, first) in a lifetime trek to Washington to [...]
On January 22, two days after the inauguration of Barack Obama, Common Dreams published still another in that website’s seemingly endless stream of paeans to Obama. Joyce Marcel, under the title of “We Have Overcome,” describes her emotional reaction to the Obama inauguration, one of crying in joy as she saw a sign in the [...]
By Kellia Ramares A column I read stated that the swearing in of Barack Obama was the most anticipated inauguration since that of John F. Kennedy. I was only 5-1/2 when JFK took the oath and I have no memory of seeing it. But I have noticed that, everywhere I’ve gone in Oakland, spirits have [...]
By Paul Street As Martin Luther King, Jr. Day gives way to Barack Obama Day, I want to type in one of my favorite King quotes: “Millions of American are coming to see that we are fighting an immoral war that costs nearly thirty billion dollars a year, that we are perpetuating racism, that we are tolerating [...]
Sometimes I wonder if the power of rational thought has totally abandoned our political decision makers. Anybody with an even faintly scientific or experimental frame of mind knows that if something doesn’t “work,” it doesn’t work, and any amount of repetition of the same effort at solution of a problem will only make the problem [...]
By Glen Ford Leon Panetta, the former congressman and Clinton chief of staff, has no background in any of America’s spy agencies, foreign or domestic. And that’s a wonderful reason for Barack Obama to nominate him to head the CIA.. Critics of Obama’s choice of Panetta, a Washington insider, argue that the CIA chief should [...]
I am a war criminal. I am currently engaged in a massive project of genocide against the people of Gaza. True, I have written and spoken against this project in articles and blogs on this website as well as having, for months, published news and views headlines on The Sun State Activist that have condemned [...]
By Shannon Joyce Prince My blood was literally chilled when I read an Associated Press article entitled “Gaza civilians left exposed in Israeli invasion” in which Israeli military correspondent Alex Fishman is quoted as writing in the newspaper Yediot Ahronoth, “We’ll pay the international price later for the collateral damage and the anticipated civilian casualties” [...]
Ah, this is the winter of our political discontent, caught in the limbo between the ending of an 8 year presidency and the inauguration of another which could last for another 8. There is a terrible disconnect between the continuity of our national problems, both domestic and the foreign, and the possible or probable alteration [...]
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