Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
Everything we see today could have been predicted—and was—by a simple examination of class dynamics under capitalism. And a better grasp of the system’s inexorable dynamics leading to the chaotic barbarism and crimes against nature we witness in all continents. By Chris Hedges Posted on May 24, 2010 HERE’S TO THE GREEKS. They know what to do [...]
How Big Oil Bought the Interior Department By BILLY WHARTON May 12, 2010 Big oil and coal interests seemed to have reached their high point with the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004. He was a well-heeled oil man, as firmly committed to the military seizure of the world’s oil spigot, as he was [...]
CounterPunch Diary Closet Politics: Is Kagan Gay or Just Looks as Though She Might Be? Obama’s Awful Pick By ALEXANDER COCKBURN May 14 – 16, 2010 SEXUAL POLITICS command passions in American political life far more powerful than those currently focused on Wall Street bankers or on BP. By conventional measures Elena Kagan should [...]
Public relations is the art of lying expertly to the people, on behalf of powerful interests. By that definition, the US government, and especially its presidency, have been completely corroded by this practice. Obama, probably the smoothest demagog in generations, is setting new records in his exertions to sell the status quo’s version of reality [...]
Emergency Legislation Needed People have called this catastrophe Obama’s Katrina. They’re wrong. It’s much worse than Katrina. It’s worse, not only because of the damage we’ll be seeing as the oil does it’s damage to sea life, estuaries, breeding grounds, jobs, industries, families and entire ecosystems, but also because of the massive failure of leadership [...]
The Kabuki Theater put on by the US political class is a refined example of cynical public relations involving the top echelons of the government, business class, and media. By Tom Eley 12 May 2010 ON TUESDAY, the US senate began hearings into the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which took the lives of 11 workers in [...]
SPECIAL Many on the left remain unconvinced that Elena Kagan is the best choice for SCOTUS. In a mini-debate reflecting the split between mainstream liberals and left liberals and more radical views, Lawrence O’Donnell and Marjorie Cohn (the latter a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law) trade arguments on the [...]
The BP oil spill and American capitalism As usual the web of corruption is dense and well entrenched. The Obama administration’s announcement earlier this year that he would expand offshore oil drilling was a clear sop for the oil industry, as was his earlier decision to appoint Salazar as Interior Secretary. Suckling noted that as [...]
The only thing you can bet with Obama is that the golden rhetoric will continue while the gap between words and deed widens…Obama (and Rahm Emanuel) are going to love it if progressives attack Kagan. They will brandish that as a signal that they are soooo centrist. They will crow to their Washington reporter friends [...]
As could be expected from an Obama nominee, Kagan has a distinctly pro-corporate and pro-business record, having served as a paid member of an advisory panel for Goldman Sachs from 2005 to 2008. By Patrick Martin 11 May 2010 PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA announced Monday morning that he would nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the [...]
