by Solomon Comissiong The US “Occupy Movement” continues to raise Americans consciousness regarding a number of critical social issues and inequities, including the vast wealth disparity within the so-called “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave”. The US version of the movement began on Wall Street and has now spread throughout numerous cities […]
By Concha Mateos Madrid- June 29, 2011 They say ´No´, we say ´Yes´. Greece had to decide. But, what Greece? The Parliament, the lawmakers, the government, the street, Syntagma Square… what Greece? The corporate media language uses to talk about Greece as if it has a single will, an unique and uniform one. But it […]
Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler is about to release a comprehensive study on the U.S. government and media’s role in censoring WikiLeaks. The forthcoming report, to appear in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, is titled “A Free Irresponsible Press: WikiLeaks and the Battle over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate.” In the […]
The “New Yorker” magazine is probably the most independent, important mainstream media source in our country. I first heard of this article on NPR, when they interviewed the author. I doubt that you will be able to finish reading this, but the Koch brothers and their hands in American politics must be known. Personally, between […]
The story not told — 6/13/2010 By Shea Howell Special to the Michigan Citizen The story coming out of the mainstream media about the fate of Detroit Public Schools obscures the real lessons of a painful struggle that has torn through our city. The mainstream media story is that Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb made […]
The Rise of the Modern Day Black Public Intellectual By: Solomon Comissiong The great Pan-African and scholar W.E.B. Dubois spent most of his life actively working to improve the social conditions that plagued African Americans during the 20th century. During his life, America was, as it still is, a cesspool of institutional racism and injustice. […]
By Guest Blogger George Thompson, Although it is clear that “parental choice” has always been the number one lever of education privatization in America, it is much too early for it to be exposed or discussed in the Canadian context, where strong public systems of education and other essential services such as health care have always […]