by Kevin Gosztola The slogan of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign was “Forward.” As progressives and others celebrate his victory, they need to take a moment to soberly reflect on the reality…
Category: Obama
Four More Years? Tell It to The Victims of These Crimes
Did the election season leave you cold? Are you yearning to find people you can talk seriously with about the big problems that the major political parties all seem to avoid? If…
What the Hell Just Happened? What are We Going to do About it?
From Cindy Sheehan On Thursday, November 8th, 8pm to 9pm Eastern, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox is sponsoring a National Community Conference Call with Glen Ford, the Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report,…
Who is the Worst Civil Liberties President in US History?
by Glenn Greenwald The following interesting question arose yesterday from what at first appeared to be some petty Twitter bickering: who was the worst president for civil liberties in US history? That…
Respectable Murderers: An Open Letter to Dan Ellsberg by David Swanson
Obama has been able to get away with much that we would never have allowed McCain to achieve. Dear Dan, You and I are getting ready to tape a debate on the…
The Real Difference Between the Republicans and the Democrats
From Revolution Newspaper A lot of people feel that say what you want, there is a deep-down philosophical difference between Republicans and Democrats. It goes like this: the Republicans believe in “every…
Dennis Loo on Social Justice, Activism, and the 2012 Vote
by Dennis Loo Elections are not what most people believe them to be: an opportunity for the PEOPLE to decide who will represent them and what the overall policies are going to…
An Argument, but Not One We Wanted to Hear
by Debra Sweet I was listening to the “foreign policy debate” while reading blogs and tweeting. Among people I follow there was a lot of interest in whether the drone war would…
Obama Moves to Make the War on Terror Permanent
by Glenn Greenwald A primary reason for opposing the acquisition of abusive powers and civil liberties erosions is that they virtually always become permanent, vested not only in current leaders one may…
Inside Out: Social Justice, Activism, and the 2012 Vote
Thursday October 25 at UCLA Political scientist Mark Sawyer moderates a diverse panel including Dennis Loo, member of the steering committee of World Can’t Wait exploring the meaning of the 2012 elections…