Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is finally exposing how corporate greed scouts for storms troops of gossipers and fear mongers instead of truth troops for the 4th Estate, but Murdoch is not to blame. He exempts himself and his executive staff from the crime of disseminating lies, deceptions, distortions, the illusions of grandeur… There is Rupert…

Monsanto has great respect for all of us, little people, and for Mother Earth, the source of all its (Monsanto’s) material wealth. But Monsanto would like to remind the world that however much those activists transgressors in Brazil condemn its connection to the use of dioxin in a current project to defoliate the rain forest…

Across the U.S. at institutions of higher education, the steady march of jackboots crushes teachers’ unions and academic freedom. The corporations own the jackboots and the fascist logic as well. Campus brochures that used to advertise that teachers could “make a difference in the lives of students,” that teachers and students together could develop meaningful…

“Gertrude N. Cunningham was that teacher everyone says they remember, one teacher who made a big difference in their life,” begins the Managing Editor at the Black Commentator, Nancy Littlefield, but she was more: Mrs. Cunningham “guided me from early childhood to student-hood, from looking inward, to seeing myself as part of the larger world,…

Fist clinched! Raving, as in raving mad! Ranting and angry! Horns sprouting and eyes roving and glaring! (And crying, too!). What an imagination but by no means original! Corporate publishers, cinema and news moguls have succeeded in the last 30 years to fix this image of the transgressor. In the old days, it was the…

It the same story: “occupiers” hallucinate and see intruders everywhere. Intruders are a threat to the existence of the occupiers; intruders must be killed. The narrative legitimizing this practice has proven to be lucrative. Killing is big business. A kill culture makes for a profitable enterprise. Kill, kill, kill…for the good of the invaded species.…

Whenever Black Americans have dared to think of the electoral process as a farce, they have been punished, marginalized, ostracized, condemned as “anti-American,” and forces are mobilized for the extermination of “terror.” Figures such as Paul Robeson, Pauli Murray, Claudia Tate, Angela Davis, and the Black Panthers come to mind. Recently, the former Black Panther,…

The lights have faded for those waking to the darkness of reality. Vulnerable to the lies and illusions, today seems a new day in their eyes. But it is only one more day in the marrow of old traditions. If convictions were once among their prized possessions, they have awaken to discover that in that…

When the government’s State media announced that the U.S. Navy Seals shot and killed Osama Bin Laden, Americans did not have to be prompted to take their “Two Minutes Hate” session. Cameras panned the country: Blacks, whites, Republicans, Democrats, Tea Partiers, and even socialists affirmed – Unity! Down with the Enemy! The man who claims…