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Chaos and candidates shout over each other, calling each other names while the moderator is completely sidelined and reduced to begging the contestants “gentleman, please”. If Hollywood had produced a film about […]
January 20, 2017. Dozens of people were injured and over 100 arrested as protesters clashed with Trump supporters and police at the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, who becomes the 45 president. […]
Feb. 25, 2016 Returning to the site of the so-called Orangeburg Massacre of 1968 in which three students were killed and 27 wounded by police at the historically black South Carolina State […]
When I go to bed at night, I like to relax for a few minutes by reading some enjoyable novel. But I think I’m going to switch to reading the opinion pages […]
What is the Bernie Sanders campaign really after? Socialists, including this blog site, have said his main thrust is to draw the workers’ movement away from independence, away from building its own […]
Another Democratic debate was held last night. In the public interest, in order to see who was paying attention, we present this multiple choice quiz. Who said it: “They are working longer hours […]
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” So spoke Madeleine Albright, as she called for women to support Hillary Clinton. Actually, Albright is right, but it’s just […]
So far, there has not been a presidential election like this since 1968, when thousands of youth faced a police riot outside the Democratic convention in Chicago. Or maybe 1972, when the […]
Bernie Sanders’ campaign “has not pushed Hillary Clinton to the left. It’s made her lie more.” With this sharp line, Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford summed up the net effect of the Bernie Sanders’ […]
Supporters of Bernie Sanders rallied and marched around Oakland’s Lake Merritt today. Here are a few interviews that Oakland Socialist did with a few of them. More are coming. For those wanting […]
