Detroit is Haiti: unforgivably Black
Time Magazine has decided to zero in on Detroit; here's a reaction from one lifelong Detroiter.
The new normal
Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase are back to the "old normal." Profits are soaring - $3.2 billion and $3.6 billion respectively in the third quarter
Sex, violence and video tape
If the old adage, “fight fire with fire,” is true, then it would likely follow that one must fight sexual violence with sex and violence.
People's World: following in a great tradition
I've been thinking about the people who started the Daily Worker, way back when (1924).
Needed: Jobs
Two hundred fifty billion dollars budgeted for the Wall Street bailout has gone unused, the media reported this week.
Problem is ‘private option’
If ever there was an argument for strong government action to guarantee health care for all it is the outrageous threat by the insurance industry that it will massively increase premium rates if it does not get its way on the health care bills now before Congress.
A Stranger to Myself: Losing oneself in war
As a German soldier on the frontlines of Hitler’s war machine, Willy Peter Reese endured and inflicted the unimaginable, saw the horrible and came face-to-face with the life and death realities of war.
Woody Guthrie ‘in his prime’
After discovering master recordings of the legendary Woody Guthrie in a Brooklyn basement, Rounder Records released a four-disc boxed set, "My Dusty Road."
Starting the conversation – no small achievement
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama has evoked an explosion of opinions – some for, some against. I have to admit that I was caught by surprise by the reactions.
Committing heresy: Nazis and the Berlin Wall
After witnessing a large and raucos pro-Nazi march near his house in formerly East Berlin, writer Victor Grossman ponders the Berlin Wall and its fall 20 years ago.
