Author: Zoltan Zigedy (Greg Godels)

Sixteen months ago, political commentators and analysts felt they had a handle on the mood of US citizens. All saw the election of Obama and the sweep of Congress as a powerful rejection of the politics of the Bush era,...

With the New Year, Sam Webb, the chairman of the CPUSA has offered some new, ostensibly self-critical assessments of the Obama Administration’s first twelve months. (Observations One Year In). “Ostensibly...

Herbert Aptheker, the pre-eminent Marxist historian of US slavery and long-time leader of the Communist Party USA, fervently argued in a popular lecture that if you wanted to end slavery, you had to end slavery! His point was...

This sure is some recovery! The first week in November brought remarkable results for an economy widely held to be on the mend. Earnings of corporations are on the rise, the stock market is perking up, and the Administration is...

Oh my. Oh my. As disappointment with President Obama’s performance sets in, many liberals are scurrying to place blame and shore up their lost confidence in the “transformational” promises of the new President....

Six days of G-20 actions in Pittsburgh highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the left, but also the raging hypocrisy of those who rule. Though the G-20 was rejected by other cities, the City and County officials of this...

The dog days of August are upon us. On the surface, this is the government vacation period before the fall legislative session begins to reconsider pending bills and initiatives like health care reform. Expectations are high and...

Most of us have never known an economic crisis of the scope and depth of the current capitalist contraction. Writing in April of 2007 regarding my prediction of an impending depression-like downturn, I jokingly noted that “Left...

Friends tell me of the recent decision of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA to discontinue the print edition of the Party’s newspaper, The People’s Weekly World. The paper, the successor to The Daily...

Dr. Doom, the moniker earned by NYU Business School Professor Nouriel Roubini with his gloomy forecasts of economic catastrophe, stands out among the batch of economic Pollyannas in the mainstream academic world and the business...