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Wilmer J. Leon III
The 2013 March, the “Tranquilizing Drug of Gradualism”
04 Sep 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The 1963 and 2013 marches on Washington shared many of the same issues, but took place in very different political contexts. Fifty years ago, a deep and broad movement…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Dr. King’s “Dream” vs. Obama’s Realpolitik
20 Aug 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington will go silent as a bell rings the exact moment when Dr. Martin Luther King addressed the crowd. But MLK would himself be…
Wilmer J. Leon III
VP Cheney, the Pot Calling the Kettle Black?
26 Jun 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III U.S. corporate media routinely invite documented criminals and liars to share their opinions on national policy and comparative morality. Former vice president Dick Cheney…
Wilmer J. Leon III
President Obama’s Insecure National Security State
12 Jun 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III President Obama’s defense of the very surveillance policies he campaigned against in 2008 “fails the laugh test on a number of levels” – including the legal presumption of…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Dr. Ben Carson: Great Surgeon, Bad Icon
27 Mar 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Ben Carson, the brain doctor, has joined the ranks of the Right’s favorite Negroes. “The likes of a Wardell Connerly, Shelby Steele, or Clarence Thomas stand before…
Wilmer J. Leon III
From Paul Robeson to Dwayne Carter, Jr. “Lil’ Wayne”
20 Feb 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Lil' Wayne may be a big name in hip hop music, but he's a moral and intellectual lilliputian who trivialized the murder of Emmett Till “ by using it to make sick, caviler,…
Wilmer J. Leon III
The Obama Administrations Dick Cheney Moment
13 Feb 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
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Connecting the Dots to a Frightening Future
23 Jan 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Austerity, perpetually high unemployment and other aspects of the New Domestic Order are creating a new “precariat” – a class condemned to permanent precariousness and…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Voter ID Laws and the American Coup d'état
29 Aug 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III “A small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus is attempting to effect regime change by corrupting the American democratic process.” The putsch is to be…
Wilmer J. Leon III
America Is Not Broke, It’s Broken
18 Jul 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III The Right claims “entitlements” are the root of America’s financial crisis, and that the “job creators” – their ridiculous euphemism for the rich – are under siege…