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The election’s over. What have we learned? I shudder to think what almost could have happened. Clearly, some of us think there IS an important difference.
But first, as many of us celebrate the defeat of a serious threat by $billionaire kleptocrats, my readership is due a personal mea culpa.
I predicted the defeat of Obama in 2008 and again in 2012. I am delighted to admit that I was wrong both times. more…
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The article below was published October 19th by Rabbi Michael Lerner of the organization Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP). The author, Daniel Ellsberg, exposed the Pentagon Papers back in 1971. Since that time, Ellsberg has been involved in many progressive causes.
Ellsberg speaks here to the issue of the coming election in less than 3 weeks. It has been edited for space. This site supports his position completely:
By Daniel Ellsberg:
It is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013. more…
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The right-racist-hate machine today rules (at least) the 29 Republican states. Obama will almost certainly “lose” the coming election.
He only won in ‘08 in the first place with a voting landslide. He’s long abandoned that political base…probably listening too carefully to his neo-liberal Democratic forbear, Big Bubba Clinton. The fact that he was never more than a jumped-up populist in the first place is no consolation. more…
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Just over 16% of the population of the United States is Hispanic. Those of Mexican origin number some 12%, Puerto Ricans 2%, Cubans less than 1%, and the remainder are assorted Caribbeans, and Central and South Americans. (Whites are 64%, and Blacks 13%.)
The Real Cuba...
Within this Spanish-speaking mélange, while similar in language and culture, there are significant variations. Relative to voting, conservative or liberal, one would have to comprehend these differences. more…
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When I was first asked for my opinion of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement last October, I responded that the most significant factor was their central issue of 99% vs. 1%, and that this was, objectively, an anti-capitalist call.
She replied that she didn’t think that the OWS movement was making such a lofty statement nor that such would development.
“We’ll see,” I said, but also thought, That’s the difference between subjective and objective analysis. more…
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