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?
Opeds— By Case Wagenvoord | We are slowly learning that all deficits are not created equal. There are good deficits and there are bad deficits; there are deficits that wear white hats and those that wear black hats. PHOTO: Former baseball pitcher and currently senator for the benighted state of Kentucy, Jim Bunning, has [...]
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 [...]
To Austerity measures: We Answer with struggle! Editor’s note: The idea of a people’s party or movement to rise in opposition to capitalism (the actual but seldom used name for global corporatism) is routinely dismissed by the innumerable propaganda mouthpieces of corporate power as ludicrous. Not too long ago, such apologists for capitalist dominance even [...]
The US media seized on Barton’s comment on Thursday and Friday to ponder whether or not Obama had, in fact, “gone too far” in his alleged rough handling of BP, bringing the week’s propaganda campaign to a miserably dishonest end. The New York Times led the charge. Writer David Sanger presented the escrow account as a [...]
FOR WHATEVER REAL REASONS people come here—foreigners or Mexicans—they also change. People become a little wacky. Their new life is a release from old constraints. They dress differently, and drink more. For many their new personality remains however a role. It is the altitude, or the mountains, or the summer rains, or the winds. However [...]
“Fear not, downtrodden corporations of America (and also those established overseas that do business here): you’re 39 House seats away from a fairer and more just America, where you’ll never be penalized for the “crime” of being successful…” Alex Pareene (Salon, http://tinyurl.com/2wasdo7 ) ] The right’s desperate attempt to make the massive BP oil geyser [...]
The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder President Obama photo-opping in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, May 28, 2010. Reassuring words to calm the waters, but no decisive action. >>> By Tim Dickinson Jun [...]
Tue, 06/15/2010 – Steven Jonas AS SOME OF MY READERS KNOW, I am a public health physician. I recently had the opportunity to offer some remarks at a conference at the Yale School of Public Health on gun violence and public health. This Commentary is drawn from those remarks. I began by noting that when [...]
David M. Green I REALLY DIDN’T WANT to write another rant this week on the now yawn-inducing fact of Barack Obama’s irrelevance and presidential impotence (when, that is, it isn’t something far worse), but watching his first Oval Office address to the country the other night, I’m just amazed at the deterioration of this presidency [...]
or… I SAW JEAN JAURES ON BOULEVARD STRASBOURG C’est la lutte finale Groupons nous et demain L’Internationale Sera le genre humain. (The Internationale in its French version) BY GAITHER STEWART <<< Antimilitarist Jean Jaurés (PARIS) THE GREAT TOWER stands like a beacon over Europe. From the top one can see the Chartres Cathedral seventy kilometers [...]
