By Glen Ford President Barack Obama tells essentially the same lies as his predecessors, but does it better. His deceptions are aided enormously by the willed receptivity of the desperately hopeful – and none are more eager to believe than Africans and African Americans. In July, Obama peddled his relabeled imperial snake oil to Blacks [...]
By Jerry D. Rose The nation’s two newspapers that purport to be those of “record,” provide grossly contrasting records of what Barack Obama said when he addressed the NAACP convention in New York this week. The New York Times, in an article by Sheryl Gaye Stolberg, treated the speech as practically a reprise of his [...]
By Kéllia Ramares There should not even be a debate over single payer. All of the objections to it are a bunch of baloney. Waiting times: I remember my dying grandmother stooped over her cane in agony while waiting hours for Montefiore Hospital, a prestigious private hospital in the Bronx, to find a bed for [...]
By Jerry D. Rose I returned last week from a 10-day tour of Costa Rica. While the tour was organized by Caravan as a “natural paradise” tour emphasizing close encounters with the wild life of the country I was, understandably enough, more interested in what information I could garner about the “human life” of the [...]
By Margaret Kimberley Self-styled “progressives” tend to think of themselves as another tribe entirely, untainted by American chauvinism. It ain’t so. “Progressives also succumb to the belief in American divine right, and consequently can often be as dangerous as those on the political right.” This is especially evident in the Age of Obama, who “has [...]
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