Todd S Burroughs
Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity And The Subprime Scandal. By Danny Schechter. New York: Cosimo. 240 pp. $14.95. Danny Schechter is one of my heroes, and I wasn’t afraid to tell him so when I met him. Ever since “South Africa Now” (showing my age here ), he’s been a straight-up truth-teller. I used one of [...]
“A Long Time Coming”: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Election and the Historic Election of Barack Obama. By Evan Thomas and the staff of Newsweek magazine. New York: Public Affairs. 256 pp. $22.95. Rem Rieder, editor and senior vice president of American Journalism Review magazine, was clearly tired of hearing and/or reading for the zillionth [...]
It’s clear this truth can’t be told enough.
Got this Wednesday morning, after I heard the news on “Democracy Now!” X-Replyto: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:20:11 -0800 (PST) Dear LP SupportersI am so OUTRAGED! My brother Leonard was severely beaten upon his arrival at the Canaan Federal Penitentiary. When he went into population after his transfer, some inmates assaulted him. The severity [...]
Estelle, the daughter of my friend Pascal in France.
The Last First not the first heavyweight champion of the world, airline pilot, quarterback in the NFL, college graduate, doctor, teacher, big league baseball player, preacher-pastor, ceo, mountain climber, university president, entrepreneur, heart surgeon, inventor, governor or poet. not the first mathematician, physicist, engineer, supreme court justice, fastest man alive, publisher, reporter, ambassador, entertainer, four-star [...]
My Fellow Citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. Forty-four Americans have now taken [...]
How Barack Obama Won: A State-By-State Guide To The Historic Presidential Election. By Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser. Vintage. 272 pp. $12.95. In this Google-Wiki-youtube Age, it’s easy to dismiss this quickie. What a dumb idea! Everybody knows how Obama won! Didn’t he just win the other day? And didn’t Chuck Todd explain [...]
…..Obama (Lincoln) is going to need a Frederick Douglass (Tavis?). (Media folks do tend to be self-appointing. ) But here’s my question: who’s going to be Nat Turner, Ida B. Wells or John Brown in this climate of Black victory (or “victory”)? Talk about a thankless job…..
Ah…..truth tastes so good in the middle of an afternoon.