By Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Created 09/29/2009 “Who are you going to believe, Obama or your lying eyes?” It is hard to understand why thousands of protesters ever bothered going to the G20 summit meeting in Pittsburgh. They foolishly marched about, yelling and carrying signs and demanding action on climate change, [...]
By BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama attempts to depict proponents of Medicare for all as lefty health care “extremists.” But that’s precisely the kind of “robust” public plan favored by two-thirds of Americans, according to a recent poll. Obama is to the Right of the people, and the GOP is off the [...]
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 [...]
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/09/pilger-british-afghan-labour New Statesman September 17, 2009 Like the Democrats in the US, UK’s degenerate Labour party serves only to camouflage the crimes of the Anglo-American alliance John Pilger For the Afghan villagers blown to pieces in our name, one craven motion at Labour’s conference is too late On the [...]
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 [...]
Dateline: September 14, 2009 Going to the Root— Can Journalism Schools be Relevant in a World on the Brink? By ROBERT JENSEN JOURNALISM SCHOOLS HAVE MUCH IN COMMON with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve. As the business model for conventional corporate journalism collapses and digital technologies reshape the media landscape, journalism schools struggle [...]
18 September 2009 ||| At its convention this week, the AFL-CIO chose a new president to replace the retiring John Sweeney, who had headed the organization for 14 years. One measure of the decrepitude of the trade union federation is the fact that the leadership change barely registered on the public consciousness, least of [...]
The Guardian |||| DATELINE: 23 September 2009 The US should not stand by while the coup government in Honduras brutally cracks down on Manuel Zelaya’s supporters Mark Weisbrot Now that Manuel Zelaya has returned to Honduras, the coup government – after first denying that he was there – has unleashed a wave of [...]
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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 [...]
No one has yet repealed the principle of international sovereignty, but the US, backed up by the infinitely hypocritical and prissy corporate media, act as if America had special moral rights to rule over other nations. By Margaret Kimberley editor and senior columnist with Black Agenda Report Dateline: 09/22/2009 President Obama has the uncanny [...]
