“FOX News host Glenn Beck dialed up his rhetoric against President Obama Tuesday, branding the president a ‘racist’ in an appearance on the morning show ‘Fox and Friends.’ Beck charged that the president’s handling of the controversy over the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. displayed a ‘deep-seated hatred for white people or [...]

Obama Spokesman Robert Gibbs: The “BIRTHERS” heed the siren song of righteous victimhood. They feel the injustice of losing an election, so they concoct a plot that tells them they didn’t lose fair and square – the election was stolen. Every time the “birthers” open their mouths, they hurt themselves and add polish to the [...]

Racism Is the Prime Cause for Debunked Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theory. The attacks on Sotomayor, the hysteria over Obama’s criticism of the Cambridge police, and the persistent rumors about Obama’s origins seem symptomatic of something larger, something that is "the culmination of centuries of ingrained privilege and hegemonic control." A person of color running [...]

Introduction Developing countries faced catastrophic debt crisis in the 1980s following heavy borrowing after decolonization. Banks in the west freely lent money to newly independent developing countries often based on geopolitical concerns of the Cold War than financial prudence of the borrowers. The Cheap money that flooded financial markets in the 1970s was lent on [...]

Do not confuse Free-Speech with Hate-Speech. When this SLOB Beck speaks, it is exclusively HATE speech. Joan Walsh: Is GOP using race to block Obama agenda? Ya think? — There is one main reason the U.S. doesn’t have the social democratic traditions and programs enjoyed by most Western democracies — we are the only such [...]