Drones, the drug war and income inequality are important. But a vote against Obama only makes other issues worse President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at a campaign event at George Mason University, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster) Editor’s Note: We present this article, “the other side of the contra ObamaContinue reading
Day: November 5, 2012
The progressive case against Obama
Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal — and unjust — society BY MATT STOLLER SATURDAY, OCT 27, 2012 08:00 AM EDT President Barack Obama (Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas) A few days ago, I participated in a debate with the legendary antiwar dissident Daniel Ellsberg on Huffington Post live on the merits of the Obama administration, andContinue reading
There’s the stinking corporate media and then there’s Fox News and coprophilic Bill O’Reilly
At almost 6ft 5-in, Bill O’Reilly could easily elicit Full Metal Jacket‘s DI’s quip, “I didn’t know shit could be stacked that high.” Come to think of it, to call this blight on American communications a pile of excrement is almost to give excrement itself a bad name. Maddox called him, appropriately, “a giant self-collapsing vortex of hypocrisy.” He wasContinue reading
Public Banking Works
By Stephen Lendman Publicly-owned banks work as intended. Colonial America had them for 25 years. Tax and inflation-free prosperity followed. Money created produced economic growth. It ended when Bank of England scoundrels regained control. Public banks aren’t predatory profiteers. They’re not beholden to Wall Street, shareholders, or greedy corporate executives. They serve communities, states or nations responsibly. It works the sameContinue reading
When will the Killing War in Iran Begin? It Already Has
“Economic sanctions are, at their core, a war against public health.” –The New England Journal of Medicine [1] By Stephen Gowans, What’s Left While campaigns are organized to deter the United States and Israel from acting on threats to launch an air war against Iran, both countries, in league with the European Union (winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize)Continue reading
Rebel or Perish
By Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed what perhaps is the most perilous time in world history. American-led Western societies are waging war on humanity. Imperial war is a way of life. Social democracies are being eliminated. Freedom is on the chopping block to be crushed. Elections are meaningless and farcical. America’s are the worst. They mock legitimacy. Money powerContinue reading