How do you regulate banks effectively, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? Obama now faces two paths – the Clinton road, or the FDR highway. Johann Hari << Joe Lieberman’s defiantly successful career epitomizes the bankruptcy of American politics. He has taken $448,066 in campaign contributions from private healthcare companies while his wife [...]
Dateline: January 29 – 31, 2010 Amen, Pass the Scotch …. By JOE BAGEANT Jocotepec, Mexico. I’VE MANAGED TO SIT STILL THROUGH still through a few state of the union speeches, through the remarks of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, one Bush (the pappy, I never could gut out one of The Dub’s ) [...]
January 29 – 31, 2010 CounterPunch Diary By ALEXANDER COCKBURN You can see how seriously Obama is taking the hot populist temper of the American people and their eagerness to strangle every banker in the entrails of every insurance executive. In an altogether welcome departure from past presidential form in State of the Union addresses [...]
David Horowitz in ATC obituary with substance-free attack Fair Special Alert: To spit or not to spit, that is the question Dateline: 1/29/10 WHEN PROGRESSIVE HISTORIAN HOWARD ZINN died on January 27, NPR’s All Things Considered (1/28/10) marked his passing with something you don’t often see in an obituary: a rebuttal. After quoting Noam Chomsky [...]
US interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot WHEN I WRITE ABOUT US FOREIGN POLICY in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would [...]
S P E C I A L By Margaret Kimberley Created 01/27/2010 By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “The time has come for a new paradigm: No donation without agitation.” The United States has succeeded in plunging mainstream disaster “relief” into disrepute. “No donations to groups like [...]
Which Economy is Obama Talking About? Myths of Recovery Part II by Michael Hudson Global Research, January 27, 2010 The State of the Union address is in danger of purveying the usual euphemisms. I expect Mr. Obama to brag that he has overseen a recovery. But can there be any such thing as a jobless [...]
More and more Americans are now coming forth with CONCRETE ideas on how to break out of the capitalist political stranglehold, especially the self-congratulatory fictions that feed its spurious legitimacy…Dave Lindorff advanced a simple plan a few days back, now this, and more will surely follow. All genuine crises eventually spawn responses. BY LORNA SALZMAN [...]
Few times in recent history have we seen so many layers of hypocrisy and deliberate confusion directed at controlling one country… By John Pilger January 27, 2010 • THE THEFT OF HAITI has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all [...]
Like Clinton’s, Obama’s package of middle class benefits is small potatoes. They’re worthwhile but they pale relative to the size and scale of the challenge America’s middle class is now facing. By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog Dateline: January 27, 2010 President Obama today offered a set of proposals for helping America’s troubled middle class. [...]
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