By Jerry D. Rose An article by Tom Hayden appeared today expressing Hayden’s extreme displeasure with MoveOn.org for its alleged betrayal of its promise to its constituency to push President Obama toward ending U.S. military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. This complaint is part of the broader observation by many that a man elected on [...]
By Glen Ford President Obama’s grand scheme to create the appearance of a public-private consensus around his business-friendly health care proposals, has flopped – for the moment. The White House-orchestrated public relations ploy fell apart when industry leaders refused to corroborate Obama’s claim that they had agreed to reduce health care spending by $2 trillion [...]
By Jerry D. rose A spectre is haunting our public discourse, the spectre of subjunctivitis. True, this disease has not been defined in medical manuals; nor has the epidemiology of its distribution been tracked by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. So far the term has been used only for a cutesy title of [...]
By Jerry D. Rose Chris Hedges recently posted in Truth Dig and re-posted in Common Dreams an article that seems to go to the heart of a rational diagnosis of the political problem of our times. He describes a political “culture” in which we allow our choices for political leaders, including that of President, to be [...]
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