Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show By Ezili Dantò, President of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) I speak my heart and mind on this. In 2008, Ezili’s HLLN supported a vote for Obama, not because we entirely believed the Obama fairytale (See, The America I Know, 2008.)   We supported a vote for Obama in 2008 for both pragmatic and idea...

  Having shown his hand over the last three years as an eager – although often spurned – partner in Republican austerity politics, and a war-maker who could make George Bush blush, President Obama will seek reelection with bankers’ money while pretending to remain “infuriated” with Wall Street. The banksters are in on the scam, since “nothing can match Obama’s crowning glory: the permanent ...

Yvette Carnell: Obama Tells Black People to Stop Bitchin and Come Work for Him Obama to Black Community: take off your head scarf and wave caps, put away the jug of Kool-Aid and grape drink, stop frying that chicken. by Yvette Carnell I just finished listening to President Obama’s speech at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner and I’m still reeling with anger. Honestly, I’ve neve...

JAMAICA - Obama rejects pardon request for Marcus Garvey The already strained relations between the Barack Obama administration and the Government of Jamaica could be in for more severe testing, as the US government now says the granting of a pardon to Jamaica’s National Hero Marcus Garvey would be a waste of time and resources, since Garvey has been dead for ages. A report in the S...

Barack Obama and the Evil of the Two Lessers By Larry Pinkney Posted on August 11, 2011   “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect th...