The larger than life, fourteen year populist leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez passed away after a two year bout with cancer last Tuesday. The man who championed himself as a revolutionary and savior of the poor died at the age of 58
Author: Quiet Mike
Austerity comes to America
*This post originally appeared on QuietMike.org, republished with permission from the author. It has been nearly two years in the making. What started out as […]
A Republican Civil War?
Since Barack Obama won his second presidency back in November, a war has been brewing between Republicans and their Tea Party offspring. It is by no means a war between differing ideals or ideology, although they have their differences…
State of the Union 2013: A largely bi-partisan speech with an emotional ending
Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States. After the familiar introduction, Congress and the American people got a dose of how President Barack Obama intends to govern over the next four years…
Will Al Jazeera America bring journalism back to the United States?
Al Jazeera is coming to America. At the beginning of 2013, the publicly funded Qatar-based broadcaster acquired Current TV, a progressive television station…
40 Years of Having a Choice
Over the last few years, as conservatives have shifted further to the right, we have seen a massive movement to limit access to abortion and reproductive rights…
Idle No More: A movement we should all support
Some may see the growing Idle No More movement as simply an aboriginal issue, but in truth it is also a stand against Prime Minister […]
Quiet Mike’s 2012 Year-in-Review: Top political cartoons
Quiet Mike takes a look back at 2012 through the year’s best political cartoons…
Fiscal Myths
By now, everyone has heard the words fiscal cliff. It’s one of those terms coined by politicians that give a false impression on what it […]
Another Day – Another American Tragedy
Last Friday, tragedy and heartbreak once again took over the American consciousness as another psychopath went on a shooting spree, the likes of which were never seen in the country before. In Newtown, Connecticut, a small town of 27 000 people, a young man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School. Armed with two pistols and an assault rifle he went on to murder six adults along with twelve girls and eight boys all aged between six and seven. The gunman then proceeded to take his own life and will never pay for the atrocities he’s committed. We have seen this type of scenario play out time and time again, but rarely has the number of victims been so high and never have they been so young…