It is just over forty-five years ago that I rode downtown in a cab to cover the epic "March on Washington". At every intersection there were detachments of
In 1961 a British studio produced a sci-fi film that sticks in the memory for a single line of dialogue.
It was called The Day the Earth Caught Fire. The
A single word was Barack Obama's ringing slogan as he set out on the long march to the White House. The key appointments he has made as the
"Let Reagan be Reagan!" That was the slogan of Ronald Reagan's conservative followers. They were afraid that their leader's sharp ideological thrust was being
"Yes we can!"
With that rhythmically repeated trope, three of the simplest Anglo-Saxon monosyllables, Barack Hussein Obama greeted his victory in the United States presidential election. In the
Bill Clinton became United States president in 1992 by repeating as his mantra: "It's the economy, stupid!" The insistent message helped him to victory against an
If the third week of September 2008 was (as Ann Pettifor described it in openDemocracy) "the week that changed everything", the fourth was the week when Wall Street
Wall Street has collapsed. Its fourth biggest investment bank, the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers, has collapsed, its shiny building bought at a knock-down price by the red coats from Barclays. Merrill
The emphasis at the Democratic Party convention in Denver on 25-28 August 2008 is set to climax with a speech from the party's presidential nominee Barack Obama that
The dog days of the United States presidential election of 2008 are over, and at last the convention season is arriving. The Democrats meet in Denver, Colorado on 25-28 August;
Senator Barack Obama's trip to the middle east and Europe from 19-26 July 2008 was no junket. Nor was it an updated version of the old "three
An American presidential election, as both Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama well understand, is a game of two halves.
In the first half, during the primary season that
