32 Articles

Sunday, November 22, 2009
Obama's Fraudulent “Job Summit”
A new stimulus package must be much larger, and wholly dedicated to creating jobs, not merely “saving” them. The current situation in the U.S. is one of complete social failure; there is immense work that needs to be done — in infrastructure especially — while there exists millions of workers available to do the job. But nothing happens.

Monday, November 9, 2009
The Coming U.S. Budget Attack
(4 comments) Instead of governors presiding over painful cuts in social programs, the President will be doing the gutting. And although his proposed budget isn't due until February, the President's spokespeople are priming the media to play a major propaganda role in what will be a colossal blow against working and poor people.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Proping Up a Broken Capitalism
(1 comments) The Chamber of Commerce isn't the only entity trying to shore up the profit system. Corporate-oriented pundits and politicians are falling over themselves to sing high praises to our troubled economic system.

Friday, October 30, 2009
Obama's Dirty War On Immigrants
(1 comments) The Obama Administration is taking immigration policies created under Bush and expanding them, much like he's done with Bush's war policies, bank bailouts, civil right restrictions (the Patriot Act, torture, unlimited/unchallengeable imprisonment, etc.).

Sunday, October 18, 2009
Global Warming Accelerating While the U.S. Backpedals
(13 comments) Two recent studies have shocked the world in regard to global warming. A phenomenon that was to happen “possibly in our lifetime” has evolved into a threat capable of transforming the world in ten years time.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
What Obama Isn't Telling American Workers
(2 comments) A lot is happening in the tumultuous realm of global economics. The “Great Recession” has caused tectonic shifts internationally, with outcomes that will dramatically change the lives of millions of people in the U.S. and beyond. And while Obama is acknowledging this fact with repeated references to “a new world order,” he isn't explaining how this adversely affects working-class Americans.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Workers to Obama: No Recovery in Sight
(1 comments) Many workers are starting to realize they've been lied to about the recession ending; patience is wearing thin. If Obama thinks he can keep the country's workers quiet forever by telling us to “tighten belts” and remain “patient,” he has another think coming.

Monday, September 28, 2009
The U.S. Creeps Closer to a Police State
(14 comments) When word first arrived that the G-20 would be meeting in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, activists began organizing protest demonstrations. Events like this are what freedom of speech is made for. What better occasion to protest than a meeting of the world's 20 top leaders — most of them deservedly hated — where they will be imposing policy on billions of people worldwide?

Monday, September 28, 2009
The First Shots of the Trade War
(3 comments) At the last G-20 summit, world leaders agreed not to install any new protectionist measures. Since then, protectionist measures have flourished. Instead of global cooperation we have its opposite: international tensions are on the rise as trade disputes sharpen.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wall Street Under Obama: Bigger and Riskier
(1 comments) Like every other promise of substance, Obama's pledge to “rein in” the banks has fallen by the wayside; the well-timed rhetoric smoothed over public tensions and now business is back to usual.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Obama's Empty Laor Day Speech
(1 comments) President Obama is a friend of the working people"one day a year. The rest of the year he is rewarding banks with bailouts and war contractors with more war. On Labor Day, workers were offered nothing of substance, just kind words.

Friday, September 4, 2009
How to Lower the U.S. Deficit Without Killing Social Security
(3 comments) The real reason that the U.S. “cannot afford” Social Security and Medicare is because the Obama Administration has other priorities. Like Bush, Obama continues to spend billions of dollars on two foreign wars — Afghanistan and Iraq — while beginning a third in Pakistan. The truly insane annual military budget that existed under Bush will rise with Obama to $534 billion in 2010.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
World Bankers Agree: The Recession is Over"Maybe
(2 comments) Big recessions destroy wages and benefits. The huge reserve of unemployed workers helps employers threaten workers with joblessness if they do not accept lower wages, while other companies force lower wages for “the survival of the company.” Free market economists rationalize this by calling it a “market adjustment”: the labor market supposedly produced too high of wages for profits to be maintained.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
It's Official: Healthcare Reform is Dead
To create health care for all, the socially-precious health care industry must be completely taken out of the hands of the mega-corporations who've ruined the lives of millions of people "" indeed directly responsible for the deaths of a staggering number of lives "" while helping bankrupt federal and state governments.

Thursday, August 13, 2009
Cracks Emerging in NAFTA
(1 comments) Being "against free-trade"- is not automatically progressive. The many U.S. corporations that hope to re-negotiate NAFTA to shut-out foreign competitors should not be admired for their actions. They are for the opposite of free-trade, protectionism, and instead of looking for low wages and poor working conditions abroad, seek to further implement them in the U.S.

Sunday, August 9, 2009
A Cure for an Ailing Economy: Taxing the Rich
(9 comments) The giant shift of wealth that has occurred in the last 40 years towards the wealthy must cease and be drastically reversed, since any society that intends to meet the basic needs of its citizens "" food, housing, health care, education, etc. "" is utterly incompatible with the current situation, where a small group of billionaires enrich themselves off bursting financial bubbles and war profiteering.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Why the U.S. Government Hates Venezuela
(3 comments) The recent U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras sent shockwaves throughout the region, exposing the Obama administration for what it is: yet another government dedicated to the interests of the super-wealthy and corporations, who want their “investments” in Latin America to be protected from “populist” governments who redistribute wealth and land.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Democrats vs. Public Education
(2 comments) Obama recently announced his "race to the top" program to "reform" education. Much like Bush's No Child Left Behind, Obama's plan represents progress for education in name only.

Thursday, July 23, 2009
Obama Snubs Africa, Then African Americans
Many people believed that after Bush had left the White House, rampant arrogance combined with stunning hypocrisy had also gone. Events have proven otherwise. A recent speech delivered in Africa - and one later directed specifically at African Americans - carried with them all the baggage of the Bush years, to the extent that one could safely claim that absolutely nothing had changed.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Democrats Abandon the Environment
(4 comments) Can the looming environmental catastrophe be solved by environmentalists working side by side with Wall Street Bankers? Such a question doesn't deserve a serious answer. The Democrats, however, are attempting to address the issue of global warming by developing a "partnership" between those who love the earth, and those who love only profits.

Sunday, July 12, 2009
Compromising Democracy in Honduras
(3 comments) Can a solution to the crisis in Honduras - itself the result of a military coup - be "mediated," where on one side sit coup leaders and on the other a democratically elected but ousted President? Does any "middle ground" exist? Of course not. If President Zelaya unconditionally returns to finish his term in office, democracy will be restored; anything short of that will have democracy "compromised" into its opposite.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Iran's Coming Revolution: For Civil Rights Or Beyond?
It is likely that the U.S. played a role in the events leading up to the massive protests in Iran. Playing with revolution, however, is a lot like playing with fire - both can quickly get out of control.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Democrats and Republicans Join Hands Over Immigration
(2 comments) Obama has, again, shifted another campaign promise far to the right - pro-immigration reform has turned into its opposite. And like all of his other betrayals, Obama is attempting to sell this one to the public as a "compromise." But immigration, like health care, peace, the environment, etc., has very little room for backroom deals and finding a "middle ground" with an increasingly hysterical right wing.

Saturday, June 13, 2009
Who Will Pay for Health Care?
(5 comments) The health care debate has traveled quite a distance, all in a downhill direction: from the starting point of a universal single-payer system to the very bottom of the hill - taxing workers health care benefits and taking health care away from the neediest. This is the obvious outcome of corporate interests having a "seat at the table" in deciding health care policy.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Wall Street Ends Hope for Homeowners Via Congress
(1 comments) Obama was not demanding that foreclosures cease, or that those who've recently lost their homes - because of the economic crisis - be allowed to return to them; he was merely advocating that those who can still afford mortgage payments be allowed to lower their balances. But even this small crumb for homeowners was rejected by Wall Street, whose profits would have suffered.

Thursday, June 4, 2009
Making Sense of a U.S. Owned General Motors
(3 comments) Will Obama's GM plan benefit anybody? Yes, a small group of ultra-rich investors will likely buy GM at a bargain basement price so that they may pursue their profits in private after the public laid down the enormous "restructuring costs."

Saturday, May 30, 2009
The Deeper Origins of the Economic Crisis
(6 comments) much of the analysis around the economic crisis has focused too little on actual causes, and too much on abstract financial details and other consequences of deeper economic problems.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
GM's Turn on Obama's Chopping Block
(1 comments) The Obama administration has made no secret about its plans for GM: the Chrysler bankruptcy was the "test case," and now Obama's Wall Street buddies inside the Auto Task Force plan to replicate it. The vast implications of the Chrysler bankruptcy went unnoticed by the mainstream media, concerned as it was with the convenient hype provided by Swine Flu.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Obama's Middle East Imperialism
(5 comments) It's now crystal clear that zero "change" will be forthcoming when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, minus a strategic shifting of troops. This fact was highlighted recently when Obama asked for an additional $83.4 billion in "emergency spending" to fight the Iraq/Afghan/Pakistan wars.

Saturday, May 2, 2009
Obama and the Crisis of the U.S. Auto Industry
(2 comments) Instead of "restructuring" the plants to produce mass transit vehicles, electronic cars, or selling cars at government subsidized prices, the Obama administration is intervening solely with the principle that the automobiles must "make a profit" on the "free market."

Saturday, April 25, 2009
Obama's Real Plan in Latin America
(4 comments) While Obama humbly discussed hemispheric issues on an "equal footing" with his Latin American counterparts at the recent Summit of Americas, he has subtly signaled that U.S. foreign policy will be business as usual.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Anti-Tax Protests: Not Just For the Right Wing
(6 comments) Since the protests had the hidden hand of the right wing pushing them along (Fox News and others), the mainstream liberals felt the need to respond. It was pitiful.