‘Commentary’ Archives
Raise Your Voice: Contradictions within the popular front
By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar Readers will recall that, owing to internal contradictions, everything exists in motion, both coming and going; changing under the influence of external factors. Our “popular front” form of resistance is no exception to the rule. Yes, indeed: “the lesser of two evils sometimes rises to the level of a necessity.” But, given the opposing camps within the Democratic Party, we must reckon with certain consequences of our actions. Positively speaking, though, we of the fifth district should feel very proud for having elected Ilhan Omar to the U.S. Congress. Already, Ilhan has achieved a degree of planetary fame, for having slapped the face of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (and all Trump supporters) who are hell-bent to destroy our country by dividing us. And now, from within the Progressive Caucus, Ilhan has joined hands with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in support of a Green New Deal. Should we all join hands to preserve [...]
News in Yemen vastly underreported
By HOWARD McQUITTER II Recently, the New York Times in its Sunday Review section reported the Saudi war in Yemen in the last three years has caused 85,000 children to die from the bombardment or from starvation. What”'s more, the article goes further by saying Americans”' tax dollars are helping not only to fund the war, but is helping to starve tens of thousands of men, women and children and displaced thousands of others. The United Nations is saying the famine in Yemen is likely to be the worst famine in a generation. There is plenty of blood on the hands of the United States which both the Obama and Trump administrations support the Saudis”' war in Yemen. One wouldn”'t know how severe the famine is if the white Fourth Estate, social media, ignores most of the coverage in Yemen. One has to rely on Amy Goodman”'s Democracy Now” or Ron Edward”'s “Black Focus,” or the likes of independent news outlets to get [...]
