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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Does recklessly killing citizens endanger Trump re-election?
The question for the next six months: Will the damage from Trump’s past, present and future crimes against humanity make him less electable?
‘Unacceptable’: Dems fume after Trump announces plan to refuse Congressional oversight of corporate bailout...
"The Treasury has the ability to move this money extremely quickly; there's nobody that Secretary Mnuchin has to ask."
Media silent as poll workers contract COVID-19 at primaries that DNC, Biden campaign claimed...
And instead of reporting on this urgent story, the media have enabled this dangerous behavior.
Is the DNC cheating? Again?
The DNC’s candidate always gains in the counting. And that is highly suspicious.
No debates, Joe; a discussion
If Biden and Bernie can have public discussions about important platform and personnel issues, the likelihood is that they could find genuine compromises and form a real coalition.