Author Archives: William T. Hathaway

Literature in a locked down land
By William T. Hathaway
Posted on March 1, 2012 by William T. Hathaway

Working class literature is alive and well and living in prison. It is “well” not in the sense of being contented and happy but rather of being vital and impassioned. And it is imprisoned not just in the sense of being locked behind bars but also of being locked into poverty. Some prisons have walls of iron and stone, others walls of economics and racism. It is their efforts to escape from this second prison that get most inmates incarcerated in the first. As Mumia Abu-Jamal said, “I’ve been in prison my whole life.” Continue reading →

Strategies of deception
By William T. Hathaway
Posted on February 27, 2012 by William T. Hathaway

To get a preview of Obama’s strategies for winning a second term, we just need to read the liberal press. They are giving lip-service praise to the current protests while trying to steer them in a direction that serves the Democratic Party. Seeking to restore the fading illusion that the Democrats work in the interests of the 99%, they imply that if Obama is given a second term, his true nature will emerge and he’ll crack down on the greed and corruption of the 1% and lead the country in a progressive direction. They conveniently ignore that he’s done the opposite during his three years in office. Continue reading →

The last days of the Lilliputians
By William T. Hathaway
Posted on January 27, 2012 by William T. Hathaway

In Gulliver’s Travels the tiny Lilliputians attacked the much larger Gulliver while he was sleeping and tied him to the ground with thousands of threads. In a similar way, the ruling elite have tied the working class in bondage. Continue reading →

Einstein’s prescience
By William T. Hathaway
Posted on November 14, 2011 by William T. Hathaway

Albert Einstein wrote in 1939, “There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people. . . . Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.” Einstein was opposed from the start to the setting up of a Jewish state and to mass emigration into Palestine. He was also one of the signatories to an Open Letter to the New York Times in 1948 denouncing the terrorist activities of Menachem Begin and the massacre carried out in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. Continue reading →

Ending an endless war
By William T. Hathaway
Posted on July 22, 2011 by William T. Hathaway

How do we defuse an aggressive culture? How do we end an endless war? Continue reading →

Resurrecting insurrection
By William T. Hathaway
Posted on February 16, 2011 by William T. Hathaway

Endless war . . . endless despair. The USA finally elects a leader who pledges to bring peace, and he morphs before our incredulous eyes into a war president. We’re still killing thousands of people, manipulating other nations, developing new nuclear bombs, forcing our financial will around the world, and jailing dissenters at home. Continue reading →