News Analysis, Politics, Culture & History
Friday, September 29, 2023
By Bonnie James America’s First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Basic Civitas Books, 2003, 129 pages Phillis Wheatley is perhaps the most fascinating and thought-provoking American you never heard of. She arrived in Boston on July 11, 1761, at about age 7, […]
Even before President Trump’s latest outrage against the nations of Africa (along with Haiti and El Salvador) referring to them vulgarly as [expletive deleted] countries, whose people should not be welcomed as immigrants, the failure of the administration’s policies toward Africa was addressed in this article by Africa expert Lawrence […]
In this new article, renowned economist and investigative journalist Nomi Prins warns of the coming financial blowout while all the financial gurus and spin-doctors are claiming we are in the longest recovery of the past half-century. “We’ve made it through 2017. The first-season installment of presidential Tweetville is ending where […]
By Bonnie James As I was considering the latest announcement from the Trump Administration, this one pronounced by the toad-like personage of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, lately, the Attorney General of the United States, rescinding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), or Dreamers Act, thereby subjecting some 800,000 young people, […]
On June 2, Sam Quinones, author of the book Dreamland, reported that: The New England Journal of Medicine startled everyone this week by a posting a one-sentence warning over the so-called Porter & Jick letter to the editor that the journal published in January of 1980. The warning note reads: […]
By Nancy Spannaus April 27– New York has become the 17th state where memorials demanding the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall have been introduced. On April 24, Assemblyman Phil Steck introduced a resolution “urging the New York State Congressional delegation to support efforts in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to reinstate […]
By Rachel Douglas Feb. 14—“If I were Michael Ledeen,” a European friend of mine said yesterday, “and I wanted to intensify a clash with Russia, I would use Ukraine.” He was talking about the U.S. neoconservative operative and the author of Universal Fascism, who has been flitting around the newly […]
by Rachel Douglas 17 Jan.— One of the departing Obama Administration’s last acts of hostility towards Russia was Vice-President Joe Biden’s 16 January visit to Kiev, where he declared that “the international community must continue to stand as one against Russian coercion and aggression.” Biden has been an active booster […]
August 24, 2016 was the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. There was little to celebrate, with civil war continuing sporadically in the eastern Donbas region, and economic austerity tightening around the population struggling to survive in the debt-ridden country. It is a fitting moment to remember Ukraine, which has dropped […]
By Kate Freeman Sept. 14–Questions about Hillary Clinton’s health have persisted for some time and both her campaign and the Party have been extremely defensive on this count. Those questions have intensified over these last few weeks, as she has had to interrupt several major addresses due to uncontrollable coughing […]