We are all supposed to find a job in the competitive job market. But how can we all do so when competition, by its very nature, creates losers as well as winners? By Kéllia Ramares In the recently concluded BCS title game in college football, the top two teams in the rankings went . head-to-head [...]
By Jerry D. Rose On January 20, 2010 (a day that will live in infamy), our Supreme Court fathers brought forth upon this nation a new interpretation of restrictions on campaign financing, conceived in a scurrilous campaign book about Hillary Clinton, and dedicated to the proposition that corporations and other collective bodies are “persons” with [...]
By Jerry D. Rose 2010′s “off year election” (no presidential contest) is followed today by a year in which there will be neither presidential nor congressional elections (except perhaps some “special” ones). It can and should be, however, a banner year for progressives to do something rare for their breed, and that is to GET [...]
By Kellia Ramares The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal is finally through Congress. Soon members of the LGBT community will be able to openly serve in the military. But this is not the end of it. I am glad the bill passed so that this official form of discrimination will soon come to an end. [...]
By Glen Ford Now that self-proclaimed progressives have passed the point of disenchantment with Barack Obama and entered the stage of active anger at their once-imagined ally, they should quickly take the next step and acknowledge that he is what we at Black Agenda Report have been saying for six years: a right-wing Democrat who [...]
Facebook’s attempts to limit online friendships in the name of span reduction interferes with political communication Editor’s note: I am happy to post here Kellia Ramares’ article about what appears to be suppression of political activism. As one who has collected over 1400 Facebook “friends” in the course of my Campaign Corner activism, I can attest [...]
By Jerry D. Rose Beware the ides of November. Be especially wary when the New York Times, on November 15 2010, after an election widely described as a “repudiation” of President Obama’s handling of national affairs, appears with an article about one of the sources of that public discontent. The article, by Peter Baker and [...]
By Jerry D. Rose Political pundits and garden variety political junkies (like me) are still poring over the results of Tuesday’s election, which appears on its face and may be underneath the skin as well to have been a terrible beating for the progressive cause in America. Angry and upset Americans have endured a campaign [...]
By Jerry D. Rose As Gainesville Florida approaches its ground zero day in the confrontation of Muslims and Christian fundamentalists, local people are on in a tizzy about what should be the reaction of its citizens who are of neither of these groups to the impending burning of copies of the Koran by the tiny [...]
By Glen Ford There is no cavalry coming over the ridge to save the people from massed capital. Certainly not the Democrats, whose self-caged left wing now finds its marginalized encampments under lockdown by their own president’s hostile patrols, while the GOP and its Tea Party irregulars howl from the circling darkness. That’s what happens [...]
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