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McCain’s Self-Immolating Campaign

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 11. Oct, 2008 in civil rights movement, election, friends, politics, race and racism, Weblogs

For an elaboration on why the McCain/Palin hate mongering is a losing strategy see Abby’s post. I feel like McCain is doing a great job appealing to the bottom 16th percentile…. And “shoring up” the bottom 16th percentile isn’t going to win him any elections. There’s just not enough population there. Let me tell you [...]

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Hillary Clinton Exploits the Race Chasm

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 16. Apr, 2008 in election, politics, race and racism

I missed this fascinating article by David Sirota when it came out a couple of weeks ago, explaining why and how race matters in Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign against Barrack Obama. (View full size image.) Since at least the South Carolina primary, the Clinton campaign’s message has been stripped of its poll-tested nuance and become [...]

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Did Martin Die in Vain?

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 04. Apr, 2008 in civil rights movement, election, friends, marsha joyner, politics, race and racism, women and feminism

By Marsha Joyner Did Martin die in vain on that fateful day of April 4, 1968? What has transpired in these 40 years with respect to King’s dream? There are several events in the Bible where the number 40 is of paramount importance—can any of them be related to our struggles these past 40 years? [...]

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The Legacy of a Murder (full text)

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Mar, 2008 in civil rights movement, politics, publication, race and racism, southwest ms

I’ve uploaded to scribd.com the complete PDF version my article in the March/April issue of ColorLines Magazine, “The Legacy of a Murder,” about the 1959 murder of Samuel O’Quinn in Centreville, MS. You can read it in the handy viewer, embedded in this post, or you can go to the article’s page on Scribd and [...]

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Clinton’s Bigger Lies

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 28. Mar, 2008 in economic policy, politics

“Don’t worry, it’s cost plus,” was a saying made famous in Baghdad’s Green Zone, but the deluxe war spending was pioneered in the Clinton era. (Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 292) While there is still some attention to Hillary Clinton’s role in the 1990s US foreign policy in the Balkans, I think we ought to [...]

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When Is McCain Going to Denounce Anti-Semites in His Campaign?

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Feb, 2008 in antisemitism, politics, race and racism, Weblogs

A lack of time and nothing more to add lead me to give you this one whole cloth, by dnA over at his excellent blog, Too Sense. Anger over anti-Semitism on the American Right, when coming from the Goyim, has only to do with the fact that the vast majority of American Jews are white. [...]

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Corporate Security

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 19. Feb, 2008 in breaking news, civil liberties, class and poverty, human rights, immigrants, labor movement, politics, race and racism

Bad government has been good business during the Bush administration. In 1999, nine companies had federal homeland security contracts. Today the total is over 33,000. “Much of what we’ve seen touted by vendors after 9/11,” says security consultant Doug Laird, “is nothing more than a sales force trying to use 9/11 as the hype to [...]

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More Reasons to Vote for Obama

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 05. Feb, 2008 in children, education, election, labor movement, politics, Weblogs

(Via P6.)

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Obama

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 05. Feb, 2008 in election, politics

(Image by Shepard Fairey.)

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Vote!

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 05. Feb, 2008 in boston, election, politics, race and racism

If you are like me, and you struggle to find full throated enthusiasm for any of the Democratic candidates, I want to encourage you vote and to vote for Barack Obama. In my most cynical moments I fear that there is little difference between Obama and Clinton and that neither will be a progressive President. [...]

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Obama for President

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 05. Feb, 2008 in election, Music, politics

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Privacy Matters

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 20. Jan, 2008 in breaking news, civil liberties, civil rights, disarmament, human rights, immigrants, politics, race and racism, tech

[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).] Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all. I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International [...]

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On My Way to Work This A.M.

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 04. Jan, 2008 in election, photo, politics

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What Is This You Bring My America?

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Dec, 2007 in breaking news, civil liberties, civil rights, civil rights movement, human rights, immigrants, katrina, nola, politics, race and racism, torture and detention, Weblogs

Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty…. Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to [...]

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Disappointing Democrats

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 09. Nov, 2007 in breaking news, human rights, politics, torture and detention

Glenn Greenwald explains. Numerous Senate Democrats delivered dramatic speeches from the floor as to why Mukasey’s confirmation would be so devastating to the country. The Washington Post said the “vote came after more than four hours of impassioned floor debate.” “Torture should not be what America stands for . . . I do not vote [...]

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