Elizabeth Warren is seen as a counter Bernie Sanders, but she will melt (like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) if she stops raising Democrats’ expectations to bust corporate power.
Author Archive | Glen Ford
Blacks don’t blame immigrants for the boss’s crimes
Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations.
American exceptionalism = mass murder
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right.
Sanders vs the Endless Austerity Regime
Bernie Sanders must very quickly get serious about building a grassroots movement-type politics on the ground that disrupts the corporate-managed pace, coverage and content of the primary season.
Prosecution falters in poisoning of Flint water
Five years after it was confirmed that the water supply of Flint, Michigan, was a danger to human health, charges have been–at least temporarily–dropped against eight former and present officials who had been facing up to 20 years in prison for a host of felonies. These included charges of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of […]
Regime change through social media
“If you can actually influence how people think, through social media, then you can have a lot more control” of their political behavior, said Valentine.
“Color” revolution USA
The U.S. press has routinely abused, disrespected and lied about Black, brown and yellow peoples and their heads of state, and now subjects its own top political figures to the same treatment.
Mass manufacturers of slander and lies
The U.S. has nothing to offer Africa but guns, drones and an extended half-life for the neocolonial order.
Russiagate implodes, pleasing Trump but leaving the left in the cold
With Mueller’s “no collusion” verdict, Donald Trump can claim to have been vindicated in the Russiagate saga, but there will be no respite for the real left—not to be confused with the phony “resistance” that has run on Kremlin-hate (and Syria hate and Venezuela hate) for the past two years.
The words and deeds of social imperialists
The U.S. left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” that have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world.
Make MLK’s teachings part of school curriculum
Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, based in Newark, New Jersey.
Ocasio-Cortez, socialism, war and austerity
It’s good that there are now plenty of young people that like the idea of socialism. But if they don’t really know what socialism is, they also don’t know what capitalists will do to resist it.
Malcolm X would say Russiagate is a fool’s game
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” —Malcolm X
Fascism is real, but the “resistance” is mostly fake
Fascism is always a danger under capitalism, with its frequent crises and endemic white supremacy, but the phony “resistance” is only concerned about electing Democrats.
The great un-blackening: the corporate project to erase black people from politics
Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression–but both pursue austerity and war.
