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?
It had to end like this. You don’t allow the amoral rich to run a nation without effective oversight and restraint and expect a just, democratic, and compassionate republic. There’s only one common factor in the failure of great nations: Mismanagement. The USA is heading down a well traveled road to its own Armageddon. Rome, [...]
We are the Tiger Woods of nations. We’ve been very good at a couple of things for some time now. Things like commerce and belligerence. Or, best yet, commerce backed by belligerence. Things that involve a bit of testosterone. David M Green | ••••••• For the better part of a century now, America has [...]
PATRICE GREANVILLE | PHOTO: Michelle Obama deplaning in Spain. Billing itself as the best democracy the world has ever seen (it’s actually, quite literally, the best democracy that money can buy), the system continues to show a cynical disregard for the demands of the masses. • Most Americans want an end to constant war. They [...]
Eric Alterman just published a massive essay in The Nation, entitled “Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now” I don’t recommend it. __________________________________________ DAVID MICHAEL GREEN __________________________________________ First, it’s damn hard to find a thesis in this extended disquisition. The article does a fine job of cataloguing the many ills that [...]
Dodd Frank Financial Reform Legislation– Watered Down, Diluted, Loaded with Loopholes- The bill is another sham reform, a gift to the finance industry, just like the health care reform bill was a gift to insurers, hospitals and big pharma. I assure you that built into this new “reform bill” will be new, expanded protections and [...]
“What is inexplicable at this point is why they are trying one thing, failing, then trying a second, failing, then a third. Given the scale of the disaster they should try every conceivable option, even if it is ten, all at once in hope one works. Otherwise, this oil source could spew oil for years [...]
The only thing more grim than the visage of the pathetic Obama administration in non-action is a consideration of the opportunity lost here. Obama had all the cards stacked in his favor, ranging from a destroyed opposition party, to a series of crises, to a public demanding change, to massive majorities in Congress, to global [...]
If Barack Obama isn’t the epitome of this mentality, then Elena Kagan surely is. Nobody can figure out what she stands for, because she has been so careful never to stand for anything. Obama’s really the same, although as a former candidate for the US Senate and the presidency, he’s been obliged to make a [...]
GUEST EDITORIALS— BP Oil Spill a Crime not a Disaster Did you know that the oil from wells on US territories is sold on the open market so the idea that more wells offshore will make us “energy independent” is a farce? A Socialist Party USA Statement LANGUAGE MATTERS, especially at times of crisis. The [...]
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 [...]
