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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
William K. Black, Real Peace Process, and Top Secret America
Former regulator, savings & loan investigator, and current Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute William K. Black says that if Elizabeth Warren isn't appointed to head the consumer protection agency passed as part of the financial reform bill, it will be a clear sign that the agency isn't going to protect consumers at all. While Warren has done the research in the field for 20 years, he notes, other candidates preferred by Treasury Secretary Geithner have fallen more into the Rubin/Summers camp of deregulators.
Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged ali abunimah, antony loewenstein, Arab, bailouts, banks, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, Blackwater, blogosphere, budget, consumer, consumer protection agency, contractors, design, diane ravitch, Education, electronic intifada, elizabeth warren, Episodes, financial reform, financial regulation, Gaza, greg mitchell, intelligence, Israel, Israeli, israeli occupation of palestine, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Policies, Jeremy Scahill, Jerusalem, Jewish, mass media, Mavi Marmara, media, media coverage of israeli palestinian conflict, military, moustache, new media, No Child Left Behind, Obama, online activism, Operation Cast Lead, outsourcing, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian Peace Process, peace process, prisons, progressive media, race to the top, schools, settlements, spending, tanks, TARP, taxpayers, technology, technology activism, The Nation, Tim Geithner, tim shorrock, top secret america, university of missouri-kansas city, us special relationship with israel, Video, wall street, war, washington post, West Bank, william k. black | Leave a comment
Jon Liss: Progressiveness and its Discontents
Lately, the infamous Tea Party has taken over the mass media by storm. Despite this recent mobilization against long-awaited “liberal” reforms, we can’t help but remember how grassroots movements organized coalitions to paint red states blue and elect Barack Obama. Is it possible to remobilize progressive discontent and organize a party that crosses race, class, and gender lines to get progressive politicians elected?
Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged 2008 Election, interview, jon liss, labor, labor politics, mobilizing, obama election, organizing, Politics, progressive, progressive politics, tea party, tenants and workers united, Video | Leave a comment
Jon Liss, The Rink and Harvey Pekar
Lately, the infamous Tea Party has taken the mass media by storm. Despite this recent mobilization against long-awaited “liberal” reforms, we can’t help but remember how grassroots movements organized coalitions to paint red states blue and elect Barack Obama. Is it possible to remobilize progressive discontent and organize a party that crosses race, class, and labor lines to get progressive politicians elected?
Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged 2008 Election, american splendor, anne elizabeth moore, art, autobiography, best american comics, comic books, comics, comix, david letterman, Documentary, Episodes, GOT DOCS?, harvey pekar, jon liss, joyce brabner, labor, labor politics, memoir, mobilizing, New Jersey, newark, obama election, organizing, Politics, progressive, progressive politics, r. crumb, roller derby, roller skating, ryan joseph, sarah friedland, tea party, tenants and workers united, the rink, Video | Leave a comment
Maya Wiley, Oscar Grant Verdict, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
We have a problem around talking about race in this country, says Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion. There are those on the right who would shut down any discussion of racial issues, instead claiming that mentioning race at all makes the mentioner the racist. Whether the subject is a jobs bill or a Tea Party rally sign, a mention of race is all it takes to cut off all possibility of productive conversation.
Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged amadou diallo, BART, bay area rapid transit, center for social inclusion, closet, Color of Change, ColorLines, don’t ask don’t tell, Episodes, f word, feministing, gay, James Rucker, jobs bill, johannes mehserle, lesbian, LGBT, maya wiley, military, miriam perez, murder, NAACP, oakland, Obama, oscar grant, police shootings, queer, race, racism, racist signs, rally, Rosa Clemente, sean bell, shooting, signs, tax cuts, taxes, tea partiers, tea party, The F Word, unemployment, Video, youth unemployment | Leave a comment
The F Word: Do Ask, Don’t Tell
The White House has pulled quite a bait and switch on the LGBT community.
LGBT voters came out and contributed en masse to Barack Obama's camapign. A year ago, they were promised action on, among other things, repeal of the military's discrimination policy, Don't ask Don't Tell. This May it seemed they'd won. To much ballyhoo, on the eve of a war appropriation vote, the White House announced what sounded like that action.
Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged closet, Commentary, don't ask don't tell, f word, feministing, gay, lesbian, LGBT, military, miriam perez, Obama, queer, The F Word, Video | Leave a comment
Norman Finkelstein: Results, Not Rhetoric
Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing their countries' foreign relations resembles two lovers discussing their future together. Though they have squabbled in the past over trivial things (things like settlement expansion that most other countries deem flagrant violations of international law), their July 6th meeting at the White House showed that their "unbreakable bond" cannot be shaken.
Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, freedom flotilla, Gaza, interview, Israel, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Mavi Marmara, netanyahu, Newsmaker, norman finkelstein, Obama - Netanyahu, Operation Cast Lead, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian Peace Process, Settlement Moratorium, Special Relationship With Israel, this time we went too far, US Israel Relations, Video, West Bank | Leave a comment
Norman Finkelstein, Immigration, and Who Fights and Why?
Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing their countries' foreign relations resembles two lovers discussing their future together. Though they have squabbled in the past over trivial things (things like settlement expansion that most other countries deem flagrant violations of international law), their July 6th meeting at the White House showed that their "unbreakable bond" cannot be shaken.
Posted in News Feeds | Also tagged Afghanistan, Arizona, army, Benjamin Netanyahu, Detroit, economic crisis, economy, eric holder, freedom flotilla, Gaza, illegal, immigrant, immigration, Iraq, Israel, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, jan brewer, jobs, Justice Department, kyrsten sinema, lawsuit, Mavi Marmara, michael massing, military, netanyahu, new york, new york review of books, norman finkelstein, Obama, Obama – Netanyahu, Operation Cast Lead, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian Peace Process, progressive states network, recruitment, rotc, sb 1070, Settlement Moratorium, Special Relationship With Israel, states, suman raghunathan, this time we went too far, undocumented, US Israel Relations, Video, West Bank, winter bone | Leave a comment
Walter Mosley: Gesturing Towards Redemption
“Redemption is looking at ourselves, asking what we can do better instead of blaming our leaders,” says Walter Mosely, an author and columnist for the Nation Magazine. “We can’t look to corporate media for our answers,” he continues, “we have to look to ourselves.”
Posted in Activism, News Feeds | Also tagged Civil Rights Act, general mcchrystal, interview, kkk, Newsmaker, Politics, redemption, Robert Byrd, Senate, senator Harry byrd, senators, The Nation, The Nation Magazine, united states politics, United States Senate, Video, walter mosely, we the people, west virginia | Leave a comment
Dean Baker, Walter Mosley, the G20, and Hikers in Iran
What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates business. It seems that the government know how to do things like keep the unemployment rate down, but the talk at the G20 Summit and the results here at the United States is doing otherwise.
Posted in Activism, News Feeds | Also tagged arrest, brandon jourdan, Civil Rights Act, Dean Baker, economic recovery, economics, economy, Episodes, espionage, Esther Kaplan, financial reform, G20, g20 summit, general mcchrystal, Heyva Taab, hikers, hostage, investigative fund, Iran, Iraq, jesse freeston, josh fattal, journalists, kkk, kurdistan, police, police brutality, Politics, protest, Recession, redemption, reporters, revolutionary guard, Robert Byrd, sarah shourd, Senate, senator Harry byrd, senators, shane bauer, Tehran, The Nation, The Nation Magazine, The Real News Network, toronto, united states politics, United States Senate, Video, walter mosely, WASHINGTON, we the people, west virginia | Leave a comment
Antony Loewenstein & Ali Abunimah: The Real Peace Process