by admin | Oct 27, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Political Ideology, The Mass Media |
Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, an acolyte of Ayn Rand, and a devout proponent of free markets appeared before Congress to talk about the roots of the economic crisis. This runs 5 minutes but is worth watching and listening....
by admin | Oct 22, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Cobb offers a cute strategy with a little under two weeks left. But what if he’s got the frame all wrong? GOP elites have to be familiar with the same numbers I am. They show clearly that Obama has a close to $40 million more than McCain (taking the GOP and DNC...
by admin | Oct 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Racial Politics |
Will electing Obama matter? If it were Clinton rather than Obama, will electing her have mattered for women? Of course the default answer is yes. For scholars like Walter Benn Michaels? No. In 1947—seven years before the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of...
by admin | Oct 1, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy
I don’t think any of the black blogs I frequent have taken up this question: What else can you do with 700 billion? Adolph Reed has been pushing this free public college tuition thing. The numbers are old, so let’s say that instead of 23 billion,...
by admin | Sep 21, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
First things first. After a few years of slogging I am ten days away from sending my book STARE IN THE DARKNESS: RAP, HIP-HOP, AND BLACK POLITICS to publishers. This is why I have blogged infrequently…. I’m on a black email list with a couple of...
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