Agence France Presse AlterNet: PEEKSeptember 8, 2009. "This is indoctrination, pure and simple, into the cult of Barack Obama," said a spokesman for the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition.
Betsy Reed, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. June 15, 2009. If the Right succeeds in rebranding corporate-friendly Dems as the revolutionary vanguard, Obama and the Dems could give socialism a bad name.
Timothy Karr, Huffington Post. April 30, 2009. Fox news' insane rants about the impending onset of socialism/fascism has trickled into mainstream media. This is extremely dangerous.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Nation. March 6, 2009. The electroshock paddles of "stimulus" keep being applied, but the capitalist patient isn't waking up. Is it now safe to talk about socialism?
Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed. January 27, 2009. A new book brings to life the forgotten history of crusading black public intellectual, Socialist leader and activist from early 20th cent. Harlem.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. December 11, 2008. If tough love is good enough for financially strapped families, why have a poverty program for troubled corporations?
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Video. October 29, 2008. "By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because ... I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich."
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 27, 2008. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But there is something wrong with McCain-Palin trying to paint Obama red in light of that.
BoRev, BoRev AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008. Castro and Chavez were right, the Hertitage Foundation was wrong. Ethanol is having a negative impact on world food supply.
Attaturk, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 18, 2008. For years now we've been told that socialism is the worse thing ever, unless of course, you are the archetype of capitalism.
Riane Eisler, AlterNet. September 13, 2007. The failure by the current administration and its congressional allies to care for America's children gives progressives the opportunity to reclaim an area they've tragically neglected.