At one point Barack Obama accused Mitt Romney of taking an airbrush to history. At another point, he said the 1980s called and wanted its foreign policy back. Obama was quick to come to such expressions, being the most valued customer at the airbrush counter and the greatest upholder of U.S. militarism since Reagan, which […]
It has been painful to sit through countless verbal lashings of Bill Ayers by the likes of Sarah Palin and John McCain, the tarring he gets with labels such as “domestic terrorist” and “washed up old terrorist” (a rich one, coming from the likes of McCain) to then find out that William Ayers is in […]
In “shifting to the center,” Barack Obama has now established himself as the other war candidate — pity those of us who maintained some glimmer of hope that this man’s touting of hope itself, and change, would have meant some conclusion to this latest round of imperial expansion. Pity those of us who thought that […]
This is definitely a trend now, for Caribbean musicians to sing their praises of Barack Obama. For example, see this previous post on this blog, as well the one previous to that. The latest entry is from King Short Shirt (Stanley Humphreys) titled simply, “Barack We Love You.” (I have to be frank, this is […]
Theory in Action! The Journal of the Transformative Studies Institute (TSI) www.transformativestudies.org ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** Dear All, This is a call for papers for the peer-reviewed journal Theory in Action, a forum for ideas and discussion of research that connects theory and action: Do elections matter? Do they express the voices of citizens or do […]
October 23, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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