Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

It is not enough that Black and Brown children are subjected to the school-to-prison “programs” called “education in America. We have Arne Duncan, Education Chief, who specializes in establishing military schools for Black and Brown children. From white liberals we hear this question: how do we (the city, the state, the nation) provide schooling for…

-J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year The U.S. won’t be there! President Barack Obama doesn’t want to look back. Racism is dead. Let’s move on! So the U.S. won’t be there. It has better, nobler things to do. It plans to boycott the United Nation’s World Conference on Racism scheduled for April 20-25, 2009…

A published list of the wealthiest entertainers (film stars and athletes), was fine. A published list of the wealthiest politicians was fine. A published list of the wealthiest Americans was fine. A published list of the wealthiest corporations, the Fortune 500, was “priceless.” The lists were signs of the American Empire’s growth and prosperity. Then…

It’s the economic system in trouble. It’s bank CEOs; it’s bundled debt. It’s greed; it’s Bernard Madoff and Robert Allan Stanford! Individuals! But they won’t say it is capitalism! The economic system is in trouble – but not capitalism! The Corporate class of Washington and on Wall Street, desperate to save their lifestyle – exclusive…

Somerset decision (1772) in Great Britain impressed Anglo-Americans in the colonies. In Slave Nation: How Slavery United The Colonies And Sparked The American Revolution , the author writes, “Somerset never knew that his private quest for freedom was the spark that helped start the American Revolution and that has haunted the nation down to the…

“Don’t look down.” I didn’t like the grass around the house I was renting then. It was hard to cut grass on little hilly slopes, and, as a result, the grass around that house didn’t look so neat and trim. “If you are stressed by it, don’t look down,” she, an older woman neighbor, advised.…

Saudi financial support for the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine campaigns to overthrow the Soviet-backed regimes in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. Among the beneficiaries of this secret largesse was Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi entrepreneur who helped recruit Islamic zealots to serve with the Afghan rebels. -Michael T. Klare, Blood and Oil I’m concerned about…

-Bishop Eugene Robinson, 2009 Presidential Inaugural Opening Prayer Instructions should have been given to the helicopter pilot who removed King George from the Washington D.C. area to fly the King to the nearest prison facility to be held until charges of mass destruction and death were read to him. Darth Vader, too, should have been…

-Sven Lindqvist, “Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man’s Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide -Jamil I. Toubbeh, Day of the Long Night: A Palestinian Refugee Remembers the Nakba When journalist Martha Raddatz reminded King George Bush, the Second, that Al Qaeda was not present in Iraq before the U.S.…