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By Steve Diamond on Feb 2, 2009 in ACORN, Alice Palmer, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Current Affairs, No Quarter Blog, NoQuarter Radio, Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Saul Alinsky, William Ayers | 6 Comments
Editor’s Note: Because Paula Abeles’ special No Quarter Radio guest tonight is David Alinsky, the son of the father of “community organizing,” Saul Alinsky, we are republishing relevant past articles. (See Bud White’s post earlier today.) This story by law professor Stephen Diamond was originally published on December 14, 2008. David Alinsky will [...]
By Steve Diamond on Dec 19, 2008 in Current Affairs | 18 Comments
I am a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. I teach courses and conduct research on the global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law. My blog is Global Labor and Politics. You may read my other posts at NoQuarterUSA.net here.
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SEIU Official (but not apparently that SEIU Official) Andy Stern is “thrilled” [...]
By Steve Diamond on Dec 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Chicago, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Chicago politics, Penny Pritzker, Rahm Emanuel, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Unions, Valerie Jarrett, William Ayers | 28 Comments
I am a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. I teach courses and conduct research on the global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law. My blog is Global Labor and Politics. You may read my other posts at NoQuarterUSA.net here.
Obama is clearly losing goodwill points every day that Blago-gate drags [...]
By Steve Diamond on Dec 10, 2008 in Current Affairs | 103 Comments
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich met with an unnamed official of the Service Employees International Union to discuss a possible pay off of the Governor in return for his appointment of an unnamed individual to fill out the remaining two years of President-elect Obama’s now vacant U.S. Senate seat, according to a criminal complaint filed this [...]
By Steve Diamond on Nov 14, 2008 in Ayers, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 95 Comments
Chris Cuomo gave Bill Ayers the toughest interview he has yet faced but somehow could still not pin him down on the nature of his relationship with Barack Obama.
One is reminded of the scene with Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown: “she’s my sister, she’s my daughter….” Bill Ayers says Obama is a “family [...]
By Steve Diamond on Nov 3, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, David Axelrod, Education, New York Times, Obama Comrades, Obamedia, Penny Pritzker, Rashid Khalidi, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 139 Comments
Steve Diamond of Global Labor and Politics blog is a professor of law and teaches courses in global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law. Full profile || Read his other NoQ posts, including “The Biden ‘Gaffe’: A ‘race’ for the soul of the next President?.”
The relationship between the Democratic Party’s [...]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 31, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Colombia, Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez, Joe Biden, National Security, Racism, Rashid Khalidi, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 143 Comments
Update note by editor: Steve Diamond is a professor of law and expert in global economics. His blog is “Global Labor and Politics.”
Just when you had wished you had indeed heard the last of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, it turns out they are publishing a new manifesto described in brief on Amazon.com.
What makes the [...]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 7, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, William Ayers | 89 Comments
As I have explained to Global Labor readers, the New York Times interviewed me for their recent story on the Ayers/Obama relationship. After the story ran I blogged on the inadequacy of the story and received an email from the reporter, Scott Shane. An exchange of emails followed and below is the most recent exchange.
There [...]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 5, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Joyce Foundation, New York Times, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 282 Comments
I can easily understand why some readers may have become confused by the explosion of stories today on the Obama/Ayers relationship.
The partial story told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the “bloggers” referred to without an explanation [...]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 5, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, New York Times, Obamedia, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 176 Comments
Apparently the New York Times does not have enough news print to get the story right the first time so they have been emailing me and posting on the blogosphere in order to shore up their faulty story about the Ayers/Obama link.
I responded earlier to an email from Scott Shane, author of the story, by [...]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 4, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, New York Times, William Ayers | 43 Comments
UPDATED: October 3.
Once again, the New York Times misses the story, parroting the false claims of the Obama Campaign about the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. Some months ago the Times reported without comment the Campaign’s lie that the first time Obama met Ayers was in late 1995 at a “meet and greet” [...]
By Steve Diamond on Oct 2, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, William Ayers | 93 Comments
An exchange of letters in late 1994 (links below) between Vartan Gregorian, the President of Brown University, Adele Simmons, President of the MacArthur Foundation, and Bill Ayers, the founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, demonstrate that Ayers played a direct personal role in the recruitment of members of the Challenge’s board of directors.
The Board was [...]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 26, 2008 in Economy | 185 Comments
I am a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. I teach courses and conduct research on the global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law. My post here yesterday, and at my blog, Global Labor and Politics, was “Why the Left Should Back Paulson….”
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The same free market de-regulation ideology that got us [...]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 25, 2008 in Economy, Hank Paulson, Housing & Housing Crisis, Real Estate | 89 Comments
SusanUnPC’s note: We all know Steve Diamond for his investigative work on Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers. Steve is a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. His blog is Global Labor and Politics.
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The Paulson Plan is not well understood. It is not a bail-out of failing Wall Street companies. Those companies are being [...]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 23, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Penny Pritzker, Richard Daley, William Ayers | 77 Comments
Published September 22, 2008 at my blog, Global Labor and Politics.
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As far as it goes, Stanley Kurtz of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center and the National Review Online, has done a reasonably good job in this essay in the Wall Street Journal of capturing the intimately close political relationship between Barack Obama and [...]
By Steve Diamond on Sep 8, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Crown family, Penny Pritzker, William Ayers | 195 Comments
As Global Labor readers are well aware the University of Illinois at Chicago denied Stanley Kurtz of National Review access to the official records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the six-year-long $160 million education reform project led by, among others, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.
The denial of access to the archives of the CAC was [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 28, 2008 in 1st Amendment, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 84 Comments
The other night was a surreal experience.
Chicago is home to a retired conservative University of Chicago professor named Milt Rosenberg who hosts an evening talk show on WGN radio. WGN stands for “World’s Greatest Newspaper” because it is owned by the Tribune Company which also owns the Chicago Cubs. Jack Brickhouse, the voice of the [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 21, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 12 Comments
Here is a second group of records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (”CAC”), the education reform project founded by Bill Ayers and which he led with Barack Obama from 1995 until 2001. The Challenge spent some $160 million in the Chicago Public School system during that time period with the explicit goal of improving educational [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 19, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 80 Comments
There has been some very interesting blogosphere discussion in reaction to the National Review piece on the blocking of access to research material on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge today.
One comment noted: it’s not the crime, it’s the cover up and now the University of Illinois has provided the cover up.
Ironic, that a public university [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 12, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Bolshevikization, Chicago politics, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 169 Comments
If you take the Obama campaign at its word, the contention that there is a relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama is “phony,” “tenuous,” a “stretch.” In Obama’s own words, Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” certainly not a long time close political ally.
But a review of just the publicly [...]
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