The Elections and the Responsibility of the Intellectual to Speak Truth to Power
Twelve Reasons to Reject Obama and Support Nader-McKinney James Petras The presidential elections in the US, once again, provide an acid test of the integrity and consequential conduct of US intellectuals. If it is the duty and responsibility of the… more »
True Vote Summarizes Problems in U.S. Election Thus Far
Kevin Zeese “Unacceptable long lines, machine problems, registration and voter challenges and deception of voters” The election integrity organization True Vote released a summary of the election-related problems that have been seen thus far in the 2008… more »
The End of Prosperity
Stephen Lendman From too much of a good thing. From the 1980s and 1990s excesses. From the longest ever US bull market. Heavily manipulated to keep it levitating. From August 1982 to January 2000. An illusory reprieve from October 2002 to October 2007.… more »
Workers, Unite! Demand that you be paid in Gold Bullion!
Len Hart Put 'supply side' nonsense to the test! Demand that you be paid in gold bullion. If right wing ideology and theories were correct, your bosses should not have a problem with it. They will not accede to your demands because they know that right… more »
Election 2008: Who decides, the people or the programmers?
Ernest Partridge In another week, more than 100 million American citizens will go to the polls to choose their next president. -Or so most of those citizens believe, along with all of the corporate media and, of course, the candidates. But might it be… more »
Targeting Dissent: The San Francisco Eight
Stephen Lendman Throughout much of American history, dissent was never tolerated if thought to threaten entrenched interests. Especially in times of war, economic crisis, or social stress. During the great Red Scare from 1917 - 1920. Under the 1917… more »
Voter Intimidation in Odd Places
Even, in Safe States, hints of fear and intimidation Daniel Patrick Welch Swampscott, Massachussetts, isn't the place you'd pick for right-wing hatemongering. Sandwiched between the industrial cities Lynn and Salem on Boston's North Shore (and somewhat… more »
DEFINITIONS: THE BOURGEOISIE
Gaither Stewart “We are not fighting against men or a kind of politics but against the class which produces those politics and those men.” (from Dirty Hands, a political play by Jean Paul Sartre, first performed in Paris on April 2, 1948.) “It takes a… more »
OBAMA: CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN--NOT! Part 2
Kellia Ramares [In Part Two of her series on an Obama presidency, Kellia Ramares reveals appalling connections between Obama and his foreign policy advisors that spell anything but change in America's imperial, geopolitical relationships.--CB] A Truth… more »
Messy Elections: Can we trust the results?
The U.S. Can Be the Greatest Democracy on Earth, but Right Now it is Far From It By Kevin Zeese, Director, www.TrueVote.US For a country that considers itself the “greatest democracy on Earth,” the U.S. sure does run messy elections. This year about… more »
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