Posts Tagged ‘george w. bush’

Why Wikileaks is good for democracy

“Information is the currency of democracy.” Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that “state secrets” will not be shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of state secrets, but President...

December 2nd, 2010 | Featured, US | Read More

Latinos and the GOP

When I came up with the idea for this program, I figured I could together a group of Republicans and have a serious discussion about why the party has not succeeded among Latinos, and looks poised to do even worse in the years to come. As a guy who covers politics I figured we could brainstorm about...

June 7th, 2010 | Politics | Read More

The War on Islam is over, but…

Originally posted on LinkTV In a clear break from former president George Bush’s two national security strategies issued in 2002 and 2006 which endorsed unilateral military action and spoke of the threat posed by “Islamic extremism,” President Obama has unveiled a new national security...

June 1st, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Assassination of US Muslim cleric illegal immoral and unwise

Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is illegal, immoral and unwise. Assassinating Awlaki in the US would be murder, a capital crime, punishable...

May 11th, 2010 | Politics | Read More

Bush insider reveals Guantanamo deception: Hundreds of innocents jailed

Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed at Guantanamo were innocent, the top people in the Bush Administration knew full well they were innocent, and...

April 20th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

A Black Agenda some choose not to see

This post is written by PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell, one of the panelists on Tavis Smiley’s “We Count” roundtable, set to air tonight (Monday, March 29, 8:30 pm EST, C-SPAN 2). This piece also appeared in The Root. I have to admit I was a bit perplexed when I was a panelist...

March 29th, 2010 | Racial Equity | Read More

Tavis Smiley on his “We Count!” Conference and why America needs the Black Agenda

Tavis Smiley will moderate a conversation on Saturday, March 20, at Chicago State University on the issue of a black agenda. The conference, We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda, will be nationally televised live on C-SPAN beginning at 8:00 a.m. Kathleen Wells: On March 20, you will convene...

March 16th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured | Read More