Several tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney’s tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are also in the electronic voting machine business. This appears to be a repeat of the infamous former CEO of Diebold, Wally O’Dell, who raised money for Bush while his company supplied voting machines and election management software in the 2004 election. Continue reading →
Vietnam just sentenced three dissident bloggers to 12, 10 and 5 years respectively. Their trials were preposterous. Continue reading →
An excerpt from ‘Mitt Romney and the Mormon Church: Questions’
The election of Mitt Romney as president of the United States would represent the culmination of a century-and-a-half quest by the Mormon Church for national political power in preparation for the Kingdom of God. Continue reading →
The world has had a glimpse into the inner workings of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s mind—thanks to his off-the-cuff, off-message views and a video secretly recorded during a $50,000 (Dh183,900) per head fund-raiser. By most people’s standards, the man who would be America’s commander-in-chief is far from being fit for the purpose. Yet, astonishingly, according to a new Associated Press-GFK poll, Obama and Romney are running almost neck-and-neck with just one percent of voters giving the incumbent the edge. Continue reading →
Nine Republican governors have the power to put Mitt Romney in the White House, even if Barack Obama wins the popular vote. Continue reading →
What needless uproar; what absurd battle of wits among clueless pundits lacking the most rudimentary knowledge of both logic and arithmetic; what a sad picture of blatant ignorance of the true makeup of America’s electorate; what an embarrassing moment for anyone who believes in democracy . . . or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Continue reading →
Here we go again. Millions of Americans will soon vote for either the Republican or Democratic presidential candidate not because they deeply believe that he is absolutely the best possible president the country needs and can have. No, they will know that they are compromising and choosing the lesser of two evils, mainly because most people know that both major parties and their candidates stink. The lesser evil is still a loser. Continue reading →
The old South’s political bosses and bigots of the Jim Crow era would have had a good laugh at the ingenious tricks of their successors in the art of voter suppression. Continue reading →
Mitt apparently was filmed, in this now prominent video, at the home of a Boca Raton, Florida, asset stripper. A private equity/leveraged buyout guy just like Mitt himself: a living vampire, a bloodsucker, a leech, a walking undead. A man who even has neighbors who cloned their own dog for a meager $150,000. According to Governor Romney a sum of money that’s “clearly,” “not very much.” Continue reading →
At Black Agenda Report we have long argued against the canard of supporting the “lesser of two evils.” After all, one is still supporting evil and the rightward shift in American politics means that the so-called lesser evil is generally nothing of the sort. Continue reading →
Apparently the current hypocritical and utterly absurd rallying cry from two so-called ‘leftists’ and/or ‘progressives,’ including Carl Davidson (an author and Co-Chair of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism), et al, is that “The 2012 elections have little to do with Obama’s record . . .” which is, further in their words, “why” they “are voting for him.” What unmitigated horse manure! Taking such a position is precisely the sort of nonsensical gibberish that can be expected from systemic gatekeepers and de facto regressives. It is insulting and insane. Continue reading →
Fifty years ago Pete Seeger, the American folk singer of iconic dimensions, gave us a good start in US protest music with “Turn, Turn, Turn” although it would be 2 to 4 years before its recordings by Judy Collins, The Byrds and The Seegers, had us hum it along, thus placing it in the annals of immortality. Continue reading →
The recent Democratic National Convention was a demonstration of marketing at its worst, that is to say, at its greatest level of effectiveness. It was also an awful celebration of white washed history, dubious assertions and Orwellian levels of propaganda. Continue reading →
With just a couple of weeks left in September, members of the House and Senate hurried back to Washington after their August recess and the party conventions, ready to get some legislating done and impress their constituents before they head back home for the final stretch of their reelection campaigns. Continue reading →
The recently deceased Reverend Moon ain’t got ish on American politicians when it comes to mesmerizing the masses. I mean, Moon could only get, what, a million couple to wed, sans courtship, dinners, drinks and kisses, and even without a common language, but an American politician can induce an entire nation to say “I do” to their own death. Amazing is right. Continue reading →
Well, the second half of the quadrennial political charade is over, Pres. Barack Obama making his case for a second term in office before a friendly audience of militant Democrats at the convention in Charlotte. Tongue-in-arm Joe Biden, likely to be held accountable for his “America’s best days are ahead of us” remark, introduced the POTUS to give his acceptance speech as candidate Barack Obama; a speech no more sincere or crafted in reality than that given by Republican candidate Mitt Romney a week earlier in Tampa. Continue reading →
If political conventions are ranked on a one to ten scale for intelligence, I give the Republican Convention zero and the Democrats one. Continue reading →
The Republican Party could steal the 2012 US presidential election with relative ease. Continue reading →
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney touts on his resume that he saved the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. However, according to a source who worked with Romney during that time, the Bain Capital executive did virtually nothing to help salvage an Olympic organizing committee that was initially put on the financial ropes due to “Mormon mafia” malfeasance involving the GOP Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, also a Mormon, and several of his Mormon cronies. Continue reading →
If right-wing Republican ideology didn’t exist, it would have to be invented. The blatant racism, bizarre shrillness, and appeals to patriarchy and misogyny are easily condemned. Attacking the Republican Party isn’t at all difficult, it is in fact a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. It isn’t surprising that an African American camerawoman was taunted and humiliated by Republicans at their recent convention. The Republicans have been working for decades to make themselves the party of, by, and for white people. Continue reading →
Does anyone remember when National Public Radio was an independent voice? Continue reading →
The Democrats and the Republicans (i.e. the Republicrats) are once again ratcheting up to a fever pitch, in this phony, four year cycle, yet another corporate-stream media feeding frenzy, known as ‘elections’ in the United States. This pathetic state of affairs continues to be the bane of everyday ordinary people in this nation and the ultimate mockery of democracy in the 21st century. Continue reading →
Almost half a millennium ago, Montaigne, in his wisdom, was telling us that “sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.” [Essays III.ix]. He could have been addressing what would eventually be American democracy, its captive politics, and the fantasy that voters are making a meaningful choice when casting their ballots for either Tweedledum or Tweedledee. And those fictional characters of the English nursery rhyme are but the twins in our political midst: Democrats and Republicans, who alternatively control American politics from the Right . . . whether from the Center Right, the Extreme Right, or a point somewhere in between. Continue reading →
It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening to poor people. Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision—“out of sight, out of mind.” Continue reading →
The election of the next puppet president of the “world’s only superpower” is about two and one-half months off, and what are the campaign issues? There aren’t any worthy of the name. Continue reading →
Don’t you just love how deftly this latest crop of Republican candidates has managed to reframe the Roe v. Wade debate such that we’re now talking about exceptions to a ban on legal abortion? Apart from his role as distraction of the week, this was really senatorial candidate, and congressman, Todd Akin’s greatest accomplishment, creating a hyperlink to the underlying premise that, sooner or later, abortion will be prohibited, so we might as well start talking now about when to make exceptions to that ban. Continue reading →
When a craven covey of buffoons and bigots disguised in the bodies of Birthers figured that anyone with dark skin and a foreign name had to be born outside the U.S., Barack Obama provided a birth certificate. Not just the usual “short form,” but a state-certified copy of the “long form” that detailed he was born in Hawaii, which some Birthers apparently think is a foreign territory, to a mother who was a natural-born U.S. citizen.
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First, get yourself a copy of one of Ayn Rand’s bizarre books, which are a self-confessed major influence on Ryan and his thinking. And don’t be too upset that Rand believed that everyone has to look out for themselves and only themselves because there is really no such thing as a society, let alone a civil one. For Rand, society is a struggle of survival of the fittest in a dog-eat-dog polyglot of strangers, each looking to bag more of everything that you have. Continue reading →
The Ohio Republican Party has moved on three key fronts to steal America’s 2012 election in the Buckeye State. Ohio will once again emerge as the bloodiest in the swing state slugfest. Continue reading →
Before I get to the part about my failure to bring down the government, I’d like to explain why I felt it was necessary. Continue reading →
Here and now, voting is futile. Your vote doesn’t count, at least not for anything that you believe in and want done. Your vote is only an endorsement of an illegitimate system that persistently and viciously works against all of your interests. Continue reading →
The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: “Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat.” Continue reading →
