Larry Pinkney

– Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] Countless articles have been written and much energy expended by liberals and alleged progressives in this nation about the goings-on of the so-called Tea Party; as if the Tea Party and its backers are some kind of historically new phenomenon in this nation. It is not. It is in…

History’s lessons serve no purpose when they are ignored. Moreover, when theses lessons go unheeded, the cycle of disaster is invariably repeated with commensurately greater consequences. The U.S. Empire’s perpetual corporate / military wars and occupations, while enriching a relatively tiny avaricious elite, are bankrupting and utterly decimating the masses of everyday Black, White, Brown,…

“The wolf and the fox are both enemies of humanity, both are canine, both humiliate and mutilate their victims. Both have the same objectives, but differ only in methods.” —Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” —Steven Biko Through a steady…

Obama’s Treachery from Afghanistan to Shirley Sherrod Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The worsening economic and political plight of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation grows ever more perilous by the day. The hypocrisy, obfuscation, lies and cowardice of Barack Obama and his Democratic Party foxes…

Confiding in the People’s Struggle Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The greedy elite have for centuries plundered the resources of Mother Earth for the benefit of the few – at the expense of the many. The 21st century demands a seismic, uncompromising mental and physical change away from this endless pimping…

Salivating for Catastrophe Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The experiments by famed Russian scientist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, wherein he discovered that dogs would, with certain stimulus, begin to salivate even before being fed any food whatsoever is ominously akin to the mental state of affairs of much of the U.S. populace…

The Obama Presidency: An Unfolding Disaster Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board A vast amount of this nation’s populace is as addicted to media hype as they are to oil. In this instance however, it is the government and the corporate media who are the kingpin pushers and the U.S. populace who…

Like most politicians in this nation, the articulate Barack Obama is a pathological liar – and has thus far been, with the complicity of the corporate media, much more effective at it than any other politician. The story [i.e. the narrative] of ‘America’ is replete with myth, lies, and more lies. In fact, the bigger…