Why Obama Will Get Second Term in White House: Ralph Nader CLASS STRUGGLE, LIBERAL BETRAYALS, Obama Comments Off Apr 282011 By Ralph Nader – Apr 27, 2011 Bloomberg Opinion The wave of workers protests may soon abate, leaving—as in Egypt—the system basically untouched. The stars are aligned for Barack Obama’s re-election in November 2012. He won’t join Jimmy Carter to be the second Democrat in 120 years to lose a second term. Five things are playing in Obama’s favor. First, the Republicans — driven by their most conservative members in Congress — will face a primary with many candidates who will advance harsh ideological positions. Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump and others might as well be on the Democratic National Committee payroll. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s reverse Robin Hood plan to cut more than $6 trillion in spending over a decade will provide the outrage, stoked by a sitting president possessed of verbal discipline. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Putin “Gobsmacked” By NATO’s Bombing Of Libya HEADLINERS, The Middle East, VIDEOS Comments Off Apr 282011 TRANSCRIPT | April 27, 2011 The Russian Prime Minister says he’s alarmed by NATO’s approach towards bombing Libya. At a news conference following Russian-Swedish talks, Putin said the coalition is quick to act no matter the cost. Putin says: “It’s well-known that I used to serve in the KGB. At that time, the Soviet Union was waging a war in Afghanistan. Many of my friends served in Afghanistan. One of them was the head of the advisors group on the security bodies in Herat. One day, he went on leave, and I asked him, ‘Listen Sasha, how’s the situation there?’ And at that time, our country had a very patriotic spirit. We believed that we were doing a very good thing having this war in Afghanistan. His reply came back unexpectedly: Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
ARCHIVES: In honorable remembrance of Patrice Lumumba CLASS STRUGGLE, US Foreign Policy Comments Off Apr 282011 The Last Letter of Patrice Lumumba NOTE: Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only ten weeks later, Lumumba’s government was deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis.[1] He was subsequently imprisoned and murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States. Lumumba was barely 35 years old. [2][3] Source: WIKIFILE My dear wife, Congo's martyred patriot, Patrice Lumumba I am writing these words not knowing whether they will reach you, when they will reach you, and whether I shall still be alive when you read them. All through my struggle for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant the final triumph of the sacred cause to which my companions and I have devoted all our lives. But what we wished for our country, its right to an honourable life, to unstained dignity, to independence without restrictions, was never desired by the Belgian imperialists and the Western allies, who found direct and indirect support, both deliberate and unintentional, amongst certain high officials of the United Nations, that organization in which we placed all our trust when we called on its assistance. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Top Ten Answers To Excuses For Obama’s Betrayals and Failures CITIZEN TOOLS, CLASS STRUGGLE, Obama Comments Off Apr 282011 Looking for answers to the flood of excuses offered for the betrayals and failures of the Obama presidency. We offer our gentle readers this handy list of ten of the most frequently encountered excuses for the misfeasance, malfeasance, non-feasance and disappointments of the Obama presidency. One of America’s top radical Black intellectuals and activists demolishes the carefully constructed image of Obama as a champion of popular interests. By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon | 04/27/2011 Early this month, panelists on MSNBC’s corporate “Black Agenda” show agreed that black dissatisfaction, disappointment and disaffection with the Obama administration was growing. The brick and mortar of the Black Wall Around Barack Obama are the plentiful and often contradictory excuses which black misleaders and ordinary people offer and accept for his administration’s many failures and betrayals. These excuses are important because the illusion of nearly unanimous black support, no matter what he does or does not do remains President Obama’s most vital political asset. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Dragging Malcolm X to Obamaland CLASS STRUGGLE, THE COLOR LINE Comments Off Apr 282011 By BAR executive editor Glen Ford | 04/27/2011 MANNING MARABLE’s rendition of Malcolm X’s life should be read very carefully, so as not to confuse Malcolm’s evolving worldview with the late Columbia University professor’s left-reformist politics. “Marable tries to convince us that Malcolm must have contemplated a reformist political path in his mind, if not in practice.” The author’s mission is to discredit revolutionary Black nationalism as outdated and primitive. Black Democratic Party activism and support for President Obama are hyped as the new Black Power. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
House votes to restrict unions CLASS STRUGGLE, LIBERAL BETRAYALS, THE LABOR FRONT Comments Off Apr 282011 Measure would curb bargaining on health care. The push in Massachusetts was led by Democrats who have traditionally stood with labor to oppose any reduction in workers’ rights. Robert J. Haynes, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, said the union would fight the legislation “to the bitter end.” (M. McDonald for The Boston Globe) Robert J. Haynes, AFL-CIO By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff Boston Globe | April 27, 2011 House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns. The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broadly eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Ohio, Wisconsin, and other states. But unlike those efforts, the push in Massachusetts was led by Democrats who have traditionally stood with labor to oppose any reduction in workers’ rights. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
