Robert S. Becker
For over a decade, Robert S. Becker's independent, rebel-rousing essays on politics and culture analyze overall trends, history, implications, messaging and frameworks. He has been published widely, aside from Nation of Change and RSN, with extensive credits from OpEdNews (as senior editor), Alternet, Salon, Truthdig, Smirking Chimp, Dandelion Salad, Beyond Chron, and the SF Chronicle. Educated at Rutgers College, N.J. (B.A. English) and U.C. Berkeley (Ph.D. English), Becker left university teaching (Northwestern, then U. Chicago) for business, founding SOTA Industries, a top American high end audio company he ran from '80 to '92. From '92-02, he was an anti-gravel mining activist while doing marketing, business and writing consulting. Since then, he seeks out insight, even wit in the shadows, without ideology or righteousness across the current mayhem of American politics.
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As the planet warms, let’s be clear: We are sacrificing lives for profits
Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.
Police chief arrested for selling meth
"DEA and our law enforcement partners will hold drug dealers accountable no matter who they are."
The height of folly: Safeboxes in the sky
Can’t our society find something better to do than give billionaires playpens over a quarter-mile up?
How media reports of ‘Clashes’ mislead Americans about Israeli-Palestinian violence
Accurate language in the reporting of Israeli-Palestinian violence is not only a concern for journalists’ credibility – it would also provide U.S. news consumers with a deeper understanding of the conditions on the ground and the deadly consequences.
Does Flint, Michigan, have clean water yet? The answer is complicated.
Even if the city has clean water, many people still struggle to accept that they’re being told the truth this time.