Third-Party Myopia v. Democracy’s Survival
At a moment when, as President Joe Biden has aptly warned, both “democracy” and “freedom” will be on the ballot in November, third-party myopia poses a clear and present danger to survival of constitutional democracy in these United States. Metaphorically, the word “myopia” refers to “cognitive thinking and decision making that is narrow in scope […]
A Progressive’s Closing Argument for Voting Democratic in 2022: ‘BradCast’ 11/4/2022
After a few quick words about the “Goldilocks” final jobs report to be released by the federal government before Tuesday’s critical midterms on today’s BradCast, we get right to what might be regarded as a closing argument for progressives. Of course, we’re unlikely to change the minds of many brain-poisoned MAGA rightwingers at this late […]
Americans Pony Up For What Taxes Should Cover – Legit Election Tallies: ‘BradCast’ 11/25/2016
On today’s BradCast, guest hosted by Angie Coiro, we track the battle for a Presidential recount in three contested states. A look into the difference between a ‘recount’ and an ‘audit’. How a disinformation campaign by Russia apparently took over hashtags to push false narratives, generated and distributed fake news, and worked overall to undermine […]
The Mixed Bag that is Hillary Clinton; the D-Bag that is Donald Trump: ‘Bradcast’ 8/01/2016
On today’s BradCast, guest hosted by Angie Coiro: How the Democratic Convention came across to two lifelong progressive feminists, and how Muslim women clapped back against Donald Trump with #CanYouHearUsNow. My guest, Edina Lekovic from the Muslim Public Affairs Council, tackles Trump’s misogynist, racist reaction to Khizr and Ghazala Khan’s Democratic Convention appearance. Then, she […]
Progressive Radio Legend Randi Rhodes Returns!: ‘BradCast’ 2/26/2016
On today’s BradCast, guest host Nicole Sandler of Radio or Not reconnected with radio legend Randi Rhodes. The two Florida-based talkers recapped Thursday night’s GOP debate, the 2016 election cycle, radio and Randi’s plans to return to the airwaves online, beginning as soon as this June. Download MP3 or listen online below… [audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/BradCast_NicoleSandler_RandiRhodesRadio_Politics_022616.mp3] * * […]
Bernie Sanders Versus the ‘Democracy Deficit’
In anticipation of Thursday’s formal announcement, the L.A. Times described the effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to secure the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States as a “long shot.” That assessment is consistent with a recent ABC News/Washington Post Presidential Preference Poll finding that Hillary Clinton not only trounces any potential […]
Does Arrest Of Former Philadelphia Police Captain at OWS Signal Crack In Corporate Security State?
Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning The photo at right may well provide a pivotal moment in a new American revolution. It exposes a crack in the façade of the corporate security state that could grow to the point that rule by and for the 1% may some time soon internally collapse. The real story […]
A Democratic Primary Challenge to Obama?
[NOTE: My radio interview today with Karen Bernal, head of the CA Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus, on my KPFK/Pacifica show, about the groups’ resolution in support of a Democratic primary challenge to Obama, as detailed below — and the state party’s troubling reaction to it — is now posted here. – BF] * * * […]
‘Nowhere To Go’?: Nader’s Short-Sighted Tactics Reinforce ‘Lesser Evil’ Paradigm
Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning In a recent article, “The Left Has Nowhere to Go”, Chris Hedges joins Ralph Nader in attributing the quadrennial failure of third party candidates to muster a meaningful challenge to the two-party system to a “cowardice” of the left. Hedges, who described a 2008 vote for either Nader or […]
A Thoughtful Response to Robert Gibbs from the ‘Educated Left’…
Guest Editorial by Ernest A. Canning Sorry, Mr. Gibbs, but your description of a “professional left” whose critiques of your boss, President Barack Obama, should be disregarded as the “crazy” musings of “people who ought to be drug tested” reflects that you are both authoritarian and out-of-touch. The vast majority of citizens who supported the […]
Progressives of America – Unite!
Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning There have been a few occasions during my 62 years when I heard something profound that stuck with me. The year was 1969. I was attending a freshman college history class, shortly after returning from Vietnam, when my professor said: If the American Right can be criticized for its […]
Wing-Nut Mobs Provide Cover for Obama/Baucus Health Care Betrayal: A FOLLOW-UP
Guest Editorial by Ernest A. Canning A number of comments, some posted here at The BRAD BLOG, others in media accounts, suggest that President Obama’s willingness to abandon the “public option” was either a caving-in to “formidable opposition” or, as Howard Fineman speculated on MSNBC’s Countdown, merely the case of the President’s use of the […]
Wing-Nut Mobs Provide Cover for Obama/Baucus Health Care Betrayal
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning In the final analysis, the ideological differences between Republicans and the corporate/controlling sector of the Democratic party are relatively narrow and insignificant as compared to the bi-partisan link to corporate wealth and power — a link both share with the corporate-owned, mainstream media. In 2008 it was the insanity […]
Final Night (Friday) Guest Hosting ‘Mike Malloy Show’
Tonight’s the last of my Guest Host stints, for now, on this week’s Mike Malloy Show. We’ll air live tonight from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) and we should have another good one for you this evening. Scrambling now to get over to the studio, because from 8p-9p ET (5p-6p PT), during my usual weekly Friday […]
‘Third-Party’ Presidential Candidates Hold D.C. Presser; McKinney Speaks to Election Integrity
On Tuesday, while the corporate media was helping along John McCain’s faux controversy over lipstick and farm animals, and while Republicans were otherwise preparing to celebrate 9/11 on Thursday, a group of so-called “third-party” Presidential candidates gathered for a news conference at the National Press Club, as sponsored by Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)’s CampaignForLiberty.org. Paul’s […]