Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

-Malcolm If you do not believe the U.S.-weapons Israel deploys to hold down Palestinian resistance is an act of a declared war; if you do not believe the U.S.-trained Honduras military now surrounding the Brazilian embassy where the democratically-elected Honduras President Manuel Zalaya and his supporters are under threat of death is an act of…

Father Michael Pfleger “flew the American flag upside down outside the Saint Sabina Church in Chicago last May in protest of the violence…” –Digital Journal, September 2009 What does it mean to live in a nation that never intended to include as citizens Red, Black, Brown, and Yellow people it either stole land, material resources,…

Chris Hedges has it right again. In his article, “The War on Language,” September 28, 2009, Hedges writes: “those who seek to dominate our behavior first seek to dominate our speech.” This emptiness of language is a gift to demagogues and the corporations that saturate the landscape with manipulated images and the idiom of mass…

One billion people, that is, “one in every 6 inhabitants of the planet,” according to the UN World Food Program, writes Jerry White, are going hungry this year (“UN Report, 1 Billion of the World’s People Going Hungry”). Only 8% of the world’s hungry population is the result of floods, droughts, or temporary food shortage.…

-Big Thunder – Algonquin Last spring, at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s gift to U.S. President Barrack Obama is a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s book, Open Veins of Latin America, (Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina). The Guardian, April 189, 2009, reported the incident: “A classic work in left-wing…

The Maasai are among the world’s new homeless. That’s right! The Maasai – who, for centuries, have been at home on the eastern coast of Africa in Tanzania and Kenya! Change the history textbooks! The Earth’s first cattle herders are “conservation refugees”! Thanks to the governments of Tanzania and Kenya, thanks to a wealthy businessman…

– bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters Hollywood is cranking out talkies. Tired of hearing that silent films were finished, Charles Chaplin said—okay! Fine! In the first scene of Chaplin’s silent film, City Lights, politicians and wealthy philanthropists, in their finery, stand at a podium before a crowd of citizens (and the film’s viewing…

– John Henrik Clarke An arrow strikes a man in his chest. He falls backward off his horse. Then another arrow strikes another man. The men falling from their horses one by one are “men” and good men because we’ve seen their wives and little blond-haired children. These men had to save their families and…

[applause, long and loud] The Congolese can thank themselves. The Congolese always knew they were human; they were the rightful owners of the Congo. It was only the Belgians, the West, newly formed civilizations who thought them animals and treated them as such and made sure they acted accordingly. But it was only acting. Jacques…