Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report discuss how BlackLivesMatter seems to be abandoning its campaign against police brutality to become a tool of the black misleadership class.
Read more...How shocking images of the Vietnam war helped stoke the antiwar movement of the 1960s, and how we’ve since become inured to them and the horrors of war generally.
Read more...Inflation doesn’t reduce the burden of debt, rather it may (or may not) accompany a rise in nominal worker income.
Read more...Yet again, HIllary Clinton tries to distance herself from her “sell out the middle class” policies, this time on “free trade”.
Read more...Cornel West: “How do you straighten your back up? How do you tell the truth? How do you bear witness? How do you organize? How do you mobilize? How do you generate forms of resistance and resiliency in the face of some very, very ugly forms of terror and trauma and stigma?”
Read more...As mass killings become more common in the US, law enforcement agents fixate on and unduly publicize cases with jihadist links. As this post describes, that serves as an excuse for even more intensive surveillance.
Yet as Mark Ames described in one of the first works on these rampages, in his book “Going Postal,” there were no obvious similarities among the perps. They weren’t all, or even often, isolated losers. They did not typically come from broken homes. They were generally of above average intelligence. Aside from being disproportionately male, the other common thread was that they had been bullied.
If Ames’ observations still hold true, the lack of distinctive demographic or behavioral predictors of those who go on rampages means that heightened surveillance is at best another form of security theater, and at worst an excuse for Stasi-like dossier-gethering.
Read more...What you can learn from applying the Hillary Clinton Rorschach test to friends and family!
Read more...How big corporate tax avoidance hurts local schools.
Read more...To solve any “retirement security” problems, why not just expand the proven and popular Social Security program?
Read more...The Opium Wars illustrate the brutal effectiveness of Great Britain’s use of a particular notion of freedom as a means of conquest.
Read more...Obesity is fast becoming a prominent global health issue. This column presents new evidence tentatively suggesting that variables related to the costs of eating – particularly whether there is a big discount warehouse nearby – are leading drivers of the rise in obesity occurring since the early 1980s. These findings should help policymakers work with businesses to find the best solution to tackle obesity.
Read more...Social Security does face long term demographics issues….as will any approach to making sure retirees have income.
Read more...The answer to a widely-discussed Social Security scenario is not as tidy as has been assumed.
Read more...The institutionalized elements of corruption in America are so powerful that they’ve been able to gut the Constitution.
Read more...Most people don’t think too hard about the fact that there is a price for secrecy, and when the truth is dangerous, the price is high.
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