Media Matters For America: On April 4, President Obama officially announced his 2012 re-election campaign. Fox News predictably responded by acting as the “voice of the opposition,” renewing its attacks on Obama. [ READ MORE ] And of course not forgetting the four year old, despicable and desperate Fox/GOP campaign to de-legitimize the Presidency of [...]

If you have just started following events in Ivory Coast, you might be tempted to think that Ivory Coast is just like any other African country that has plied through the standard road from Independence. For many African states, the standard route from Independence to four or five decades down the road has been characterized by civil wars, coup-de-tats, guerilla warfare and many other political and economic catastrophes. I call this standard, because out of the fifty two African countries, at least fourty have taken this very path upon descending into the magnanimity of self-government.

   By: Gwada Ogot“Something startles where I thought I was safest most“– the famous philosophical words of doubt expressed by George Lamming in his Caribbean classic, “In the Castle of My Skin.”(Ann Arbor Paperback) From recent patterns of events globally, “something indeed startles.” Our world seems ensnared in a reign of catastrophe and turmoil, and where [...]

   Charles and David Koch Koch Industries, the international conglomerate owned by Charles and David Koch, is not only the second largest private company in America, it is the most politically active. Koch groups have spent tens of millions to influence government policy — from financing the Tea Parties, to funding junk academic studies, to undisclosed [...]

Following Fox’s Sean Hannity’s [The Sickest Liar at Fox] lead, The [Right-Wing] Washington Times has falsely suggested that the United Nations supported President Bush’s invasion of Iraq. In fact, the U.N. Security Council did not back Bush’s invasion of Iraq, and then-Secretary General Kofi Annan suggested the invasion was “illegal.”