Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

This month, State media sees fit again to memorialize the struggle for justice and human rights. As with most presentations on labor, anti-war, and civil rights activism, the producers seem to suggest by-gone battles, ultimately won, and finally archived in black and white film footage and barely audible audio tapes. History! The battles to end…

The insignia of the “American Eagle,” head facing “toward the olive branch,” “advocating peace rather than war,” is an illusion, no more a reality than that unrealized ideal – American Democracy. There is, however, a more appropriate representation of the American Eagle as seen and experienced by a majority of the world and as depicted…

“Where’s our change? We paid our dues. Where’s our change?” chant the protesters called “hecklers” in the press. On April 21, 2011, members of Courage to Resist, mostly military activists against war, were among the supporters at President Obama’s 2012 fundraiser at Regis Hotel in San Francisco that paid $5000 dollar for a table. But…

In the valley of dry bones, loud speakers blast warnings: Those still able to call themselves “workers” could become a minority among the men, women, children, and elderly on the pavements beneath the beaks of vultures. The socialization of corporate think nullifies critical thinking skills among high school and college students, precluding the resurrection of…

Repetition. Some crew members take note: the same card game resulting in the shuffling of the same cards to the same players and the same outcome. The doctor believes she examines the same patient for an inner ear infection and the patient seems to recall the same examination. The captain thinks aloud that he has…

In Sickbay, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, “gravely” injured, slips into a coma (“Tapestry,” The Next Generation, StarTerk.com). Q appears. Your artificial heart has failed: you are dead, he tells Picard. But he, Q, can grant any wish. What do you wish? To live with a real heart and to avoid the incident that caused me to…

“Throughout their entire history as a people,” writes Dr. Manning Marable in Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal, African Americans have created themselves.” They did so in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and two-and-a-half centuries of chattel slavery – a structure of overwhelming inequality and brutality characterized by…

Tomahawk missiles. F-15s. F-16s. Here we go again. Dark skies filled with flashing lights and explosions heard and seen on CNN around the world We have seen this before. No troops on the ground there, but there are troops on the ground here, telling us there is no money. Few billion here and there, but…

Skilled, craftsmanship, and commitment are dysfunctional in a world in which, according to Bill Gates, one should ‘position oneself in a network of possibilities.’ Such a world, however, might well be regarded as a form of dementia. -Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire The whole climate of thought will be different.…