BFP Roundtable Video- Exposed: The Timing & Orchestration of Seymour Hersh’s “Bin Laden Kill”
Sibel Edmonds & Pearse Redmond on Hersh’s Bin Laden Kill Exposé, FBI’s Bin Laden Tapes & Much More!
Democratic Party
The New Hillary
By Andrew Levine | CounterPunch | April 24, 2015 In the years before he ran for President in 1968, Richard Nixon’s publicists promoted a New Nixon. It was the same old Tricky Dicky with the rough edges smoothed away. The old Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election to John Kennedy in 1960; then Pat Brown […]
The Ascent of Hillary, the $.2.5 Billion “People’s” Candidate
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford | April 15, 2015 Hillary Clinton just announced that she’s running for president. However, this commentary is not really about her. It’s about a nation of more than 300 million people in which politics has become the sole property and domain of the rich. The rich decided […]
Money Buys Influence in US for Fugitive Ecuadorean Bankers
teleSUR | December 18, 2014 Family members of Ecuador’s fugitive Isaias brothers appear to have received preferential treatment in the U.S. thanks to political donations to the Democratic Party, The New York Times revealed Tuesday. Estefania Isaias — the daughter of Roberto Isaias, one of two brothers wanted in Ecuador for bank fraud — had […]
San Francisco Rides the $15 Wave
By Shamus Cooke | Worker’s Action | May 13, 2014
It seems that Seattle has officially passed the $15 baton to San Francisco, and they’re running with it. On May 5th San Francisco had its first public organizing meeting to prepare for a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $15. The Labor movement and broader community organizations were well represented, and with them all the potential to achieve a great victory.
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker
Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions, and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.
The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Time to end the failed experiment with rigged corporate trade and put in place fair trade for the people and planet before profits
Barack Obama, enemy of equality
By Charles Davis | False Dichotomy | November 5, 2013
According to the president of the United States, “we’re all created equal and every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law.”