AltWeeklies Wire
Do the Mayans give us something to look forward to?new
For members of certain Mayan doomsday cults, please consider this to be my first column of the last year of the world. I will have more to say on Mayans and doomsday as the fateful date approaches, but consider this the warm-up to a big December finale.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
01-11-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: 2012 Apocalypse, Mayan Doomsday
The Unmaking of Obama, the Unbossnew
What would Chicago have been like if instead of command decisions, building projects would've been subject to many meetings and a process aimed at consensus?
NUVO |
David Hoppe |
01-09-2012 |
Commentary
Social Media Government
A social media mechanism that allows every American citizen to propose public policy (foreign
and domestic) and vote on such proposals, on the other hand, would effectively put every single politician out of work.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
01-02-2012 |
Commentary
The Republican Party has been taken over by kooksnew
It's that time of year when wags and pundits are supposed to gaze into their crystal ball and declare what the coming year holds. I don't have a crystal ball. Never claimed to. But I don't need one to tell you that 2012 is going to be a year of hard, mean politics in a state that is famous for bare-knuckled elections. And it all starts with the GOP primary in South Carolina.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
01-02-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: GOP, 2012 South Carolina Primary
What we want to see for Atlanta in 2012new
More art, better sidewalks, and love for MLK.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Editorial Board |
01-02-2012 |
Commentary
The Are We Sunk? Indexnew
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Orlando Weekly |
Erin Sullivan |
12-30-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Rick Scott, Florida politics
In 2012, Politics Will Be in the Streets
We who are ready to emancipate humankind, we who are challenging the monstrous hegemony of a corporate state with bottomless pockets and an endless capacity for violence can't afford to have millions of intelligent, otherwise like-minded allies distracted, sucked into the vortex of electoral BS. We need everyone—including the Obamabots.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
12-28-2011 |
Commentary
Nikki Haley's Self-Serving and Deceitful First Year in Officenew
Haley became governor on Jan. 12, 2011, nearly a year ago. According to a recent Winthrop University poll, only about 35 percent of South Carolinians approve of the job she is doing. To give her the benefit of the doubt, let's examine her first year in office according to the issues she laid out for voters while campaigning for governor.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Lamb |
12-26-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Nikki Haley
The Iraq War, We Are Told, is Overnew
It wasn't that Americans forgave the lie at the heart of the war in Iraq. It was actually worse than that. We simply gave in to it.
NUVO |
David Hoppe |
12-20-2011 |
Commentary
Airing Dirty Laundrynew
When is it our business? How do you tell the difference between truly evil behavior or someone just acting like a cad?
Colorado Springs Independent |
Amanda Marcotte |
12-12-2011 |
Commentary
Delusion and Denial Don't Make Sound Opinionnew
America's greatest economic divide remains the gulf between the wealth of black families and white families. Between 1983 and 2007, that racial wealth gap more than quadrupled, according to a recent study from Brandeis University. At the bottom of the economic pyramid, at least 25 percent of black families in 2007 possessed no financial assets whatsoever to see themselves through the economic storm. And that storm struck in 2008.
Charleston City Paper |
Will Moredock |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: economic divide, racial wealth gap
Government's Power to Arrest Citizens Without Due process a New Lownew
Since 9/11, Sen. Lindsey Graham has said repeatedly that we must fight the terrorists "over there" so we don't have to fight them "over here." But last week, Graham threw this all out the window. We are now at war everywhere. Forever.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
The QueQue: SA Sex Trafficking Exposed and Morenew
Most of the young girls told similar stories: each started young, somewhere around 13-years-old, sold into sex slavery on San Antonio’s streets, often kept in line with violence, fear, and drug addiction.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
The Apoca-Listnew
AKA The "We're Fucked" Index
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
7-7-7: The Battle Cry
Forget Herman Cain's 9-9-9. The battle cry for every American ought to be 7-7-7. 7-7-7: for the $7.7 trillion the Bush and Obama Administrations secretly funneled to the banksters.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
12-01-2011 |
Commentary
