Tag Archives: Billy Wharton

Billy Wharton : Our National ‘Promissory Note’

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

National Debt Clock in midtown Manhattan, July 13, 2011. Photo by Brendan McDermid / Reuters.The national debt:A tribute to militarism and the rich By Billy Wharton / The Rag Blog / July 25, 2011 During his much heralded 1963 “I … Continue reading →

Posted in Rag Bloggers | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Martin Luther King in the Age of Obama : Why We Can’t Wait

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Martin Luther King, Jr., June 8, 1964. Photo by Walter Albertin / World Telegraph and Sun / Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons. Elections do not deliver social change:Reading Dr. King in the Age of Obama By Billy Wharton / … Continue reading →

Posted in Rag Bloggers | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Barack Obama : The Audacity of Imperial Hubris

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Famed graffiti artist Banksy’s statement on war and peace. Protest poster in Parliament Square, London.Imperial hubris:Barack Obama and Nobel’s preemptive strike Obama might have used the Nobel stage to mark a break from [the] geopolitical approach to U.S. hegemony through … Continue reading →

Posted in Rag Bloggers | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment