Mr. Snappy Slogan for Hope and Change We Didn't Get steps fully into his role as the Crusher of Movements of the Masses that threaten to challenge the neoliberal corporatist hegemony of the Democratic Party by a base that is younger and frankly tired of the party's representational lip service.
The Islamaphobic egomaniacal nuclear superpowers of the US and Israel colluded to target an Iranian scientist in a brazen and disgusting act of aggression that could have only have been conceived by Islamaphobic egomaniacal leaders of nuclear superpowers - and the EU nations that are complicit with them - intent on maintaining their dominance.
If you're going to keep the tradition to gather with family (but not THIS year), at least spend it learning the truth about the history that is covered with this cornucopia of lies.
A few thoughts on the sticky situation Raphael Warnock in Georgia finds himself in, between his faith and imperialism trying to win an election inside the empire.
Yes, yes Trump is the main attraction in the horror show that was his administration. But what about all the enablers who cheered, and back-slapped, and sucked up, and just followed orders of his along the way? What about them?
Yes, it's great that Trump has ordered 2,000 troop out of Afghanistan. But that still leaves 2,500 there, and troops in Iraq, and he is still planning to allocate more billions for more war hardware. Only in an imperialist system where war is profitable would any tiny move that falls far short of actually ending war is seen as a win. It shouldn't be this way.
While Georgia recounts, let's set the record straight about Brad Raffesnsperger and the record of voter purges and suppression the GOP Secretary of State is a part of. Let's not make him a liberal hero just because he decided to stand up for something now.
The MAGA crowd can claim that they are protesting an allegedly stolen election, but what does assaulting Black and antifascist demonstrators and militias carrying firearms to demonstrations have to do with stealing an election? Unless...the election isn't the actual issue, but anger at the power they feel is being taken from them, and the people they believe is taking that power, is the REAL issue. Because it is the real issue.
People will be asking this question for years to come, "Where were YOU when Biden won the election?" Where The Luqmans were is not only important in answering that question, but it is also an indication of where we'll be and what we'll be doing for the next four years, because it's what we've been doing for the last four. How about you?
Three GOP icons and Trump apologists who no one should be surprised continue to defend him.
So the media once again decides to paint all Black men with the broad brush of being traitors to the race because less than 20% of Black men who voted, voted for Trump. Let's get a few things straight about that narrative, including what they leave out, and let me make it clear why this Black woman will not ever play that evil game.
In what should have been a liberal landslide, Democrats' commitment to moderate liberalism crushed popular progressive policies and the candidate that brought them to the party, alienated progressive voters, and provided no policy answers to challenge a president who refused to protect people against a viral pandemic causing the needless deaths of over 230,000 citizens, making this an election that the Democrats should have run away with too damned close to call. Even if they win, the Democrats'...
Past is prologue, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, rinse, repeat.
The GOP knows it is losing relevance in a changing demographic and political landscape in this country. So what better way to hold on to power than to control the interpretation of law for the next 40 years? If I could figure this out, why couldn't the Democrats, who could actually have done something to stop it?
People are clamoring to come up with a plan for politicians to woo Black voters. The Democrats nor the Republicans nor any celebrity has come up with a plan that contains any of these basic, bedrock, foundational demands for Black liberation set forth by the Vanguards of the Revolution, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense. If your plan for Black people doesn't have these elements in it, it's not a serious plan for liberation for Black people.
Rebroadcast of Pt 2 of a history series on Standing Rock done three years ago. As relevant today as it was then.
Rebroadcast of part 1 of a history series we did on Standing Rock done three years ago. As relevant today as it was then.
We don't celebrate Christopher Columbus or any of the colonized ideas that propelled his exploits. We celebrate Indigenous struggle and resilience, and an end to the colonization of the history of the world.
The Fly won the debate, Pence is a hollow soulless carcass, but Harris isn't much better. We ARE living in a horror show.
Jacquie and Abdus wax not always eloquently about the first presidential debate, our thoughts, and some extras about AFRICOM!
Well it's finally happened...Trump has contracted coronavirus. After lying about it and saying it would be gone by April and not providing any support for regular citizens to stop the spread of the virus and just not wearing a damned mask and encouraging others to make mask-wearing a point of "patriotism." What happens now? Some thoughts...and maybe some laughs...and some marching orders, as always.
Fascism has always been a part of the American Experience for some of us. Declaring the teaching of that history racist only serves to cover up the everyday fascism that people think doesn't exist.
Oh...it was hilarious and horrible and you shouldn't have been surprised at any of it.
Did the candidates talk about this in the debate? Were there answers to address these issues? Did you expect any? Don't. Because politicians who benefit from the system as it exists will never call to dismantle that system. But the problem IS the system, more than it is the people who uphold it.
Mass arrests in Louisville included the legislator who wrote Breonna's Law. Coincidence? We think not.
When Joseph Biden crowed about "beating the Socialist" in the primaries, sure he meant Bernie Sanders (who isn't a whole Socialist), but really, he meant YOU.
People began idolizing Ruth Bader Ginsberg a few years ago when someone told the them the Supreme Court had some importance, but trying to make her a progressive hero doesn't erase some of her most harmful decisions and opinions, and it doesn't erase the gross malfeasance of the Democrats strategy regarding judicial appointments.
Democrats sue to remove Green Party candidates from ballots in Wisconsin and Texas, calculating they can win by denying voters the right to choose the candidate they want. But will this political calculus work out for them in November, and what will it produce for the Dems in the long term?
Black people have been looking for a safe space to just be in this country ever since we've been here; but for some reason, the same people who don't want to live around us and don't want us living around them, also don't want to let us have our own spaces. But we keep trying to create safe spaces for ourselves in the piece anyway. And we won't stop until we achieve them!
