Gingrich: Obama Is the ‘Most Radical President’ Ever Editor’s Note: In this new section, “Annals of Scum”, we simply present the inflammatory nonsense and falsehoods being spread around by figures like Newt Gingrich, which the corporate media continues to treat with respect. Likewise, we remind our readers, those with a strong stomach and the ability [...]
By Peter Dreier Published on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by CommonDreams.org With a selection of important comments from the original venue Sociologist Frances Fox Piven often gets requests from students who want to interview her about her political theories and activism. So when Kyle Olson phoned her in January, told her he was a college [...]
Editor’s Note: << Ben Nelson made his name and money in the insurance industry. After graduating from law school, Nelson landed a job as assistant general counsel for Central National Insurance Group of Omaha. In 1975, he became state insurance director before going back to work for Central National Insurance as an executive vice president [...]
Banksters Rob States and Cities Too Created 10/28/2009 – 18:06 By Margaret Kimberley The $17 trillion dollar transfer from federal coffers to the pockets of Wall Street banksters didn’t happen in a vacuum. The same bipartisan cast of players have had their wolvish way with sheepish state and local governments for a long time [...]
The deeper the world’s elites sink into criminality, the more outrageous the hypocrisy, and as usual the US leads the parade BY JOHN STEPPLING The response in the US to Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland … as he was on his way to receive an award………is typical of a resentful, angry, and most significantly, [...]
By Lorna Salzman The Obama mirage should be a lesson for those who are quick to fall in love with phonies. (Are you listening Daily Kos?) THOSE OF YOU WHO FOLLOWED the 2004 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader (sadly limited to very few states) probably got his VP candidate Matt Gonzalez’ memo on Obama’s voting [...]
Originally at http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/3993 || ZNet || September 24, 2009 The Mystique of “Free-Market Guy” Obama If Obama is radical about anything, it’s about NOT rocking corporate boats. That’s why he received more Wall Street funding than any candidate in history and why – before he was a front-runner in early 2007 – he was raising more money from [...]
SOMEBODY HAS TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE PEOPLE— The ACORN I Know By dswanson – Posted on 25 September 2009 ||| By David Swanson If someone told you that a bunch of low-income people, most of them African-American or Latino, most of them women, most of them elderly, had been victimized by a predatory [...]
Why the Public Option is Doomed To Fail, and What Can Be Done About It. By Bruce A. Dixon, Managing Editor, Black Agenda Report Created 09/23/2009 – The generous, expansive public option on the lips of Congressional progressives, which would be open to all and compete to lower insurance prices is largely imaginary, while the [...]
REPOST // ARTICLES OF PERMANENT INTEREST Dateline: February 21, 2007 || AMERICA THE STUPID •• MARGARET KIMBERLY Could you picture Davy Crockett at the Alamo looking at his BlackBerry getting a message from Congress? Davy Crockett, we support you, the only thing is we’re not going to send any troops.’ I’m sure that would really [...]
