David Letterman Finally Airs The Last Bill Hicks Appearence on his Show

Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool

by Greg Miller, Chicago Tribune The CIA‘s secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba. But even while dismantling these discredited programs, President Barack Obama left an equally controversial counterterrorism tool intact. Under executive [...]

The Obama Spectacle: History, Hypocrisy, and Empire Keeping it Real

by Larry Pinkney, Black Commentator The so-called democracy of the powerful U.S. elite continues to live up to its legacy of hypocrisy and deceit. Now that the spectacle of the Barack Obama coronation as the “American” Empire’s first African-American emperor has run its course, and many, many millions of dollars have been spent on self-adulation [...]

To Hell with the BBC (and Reddit); ITN DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal they Both refuse to Air

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Neither The US Nor Israel Is A “Genuine Party To Peace.”

by Noam Chomsky, Information Clearinghouse Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously – both what he says, and what he omits. Particularly significant is his first substantive statement on foreign affairs, on January 22, at the [...]

Obama’s calculated anger over Wall Street bonuses

by Tom Eley, WSWS On Thursday, President Obama publicly criticized Wall Street bankers who awarded themselves more than $18 billion in annual bonuses even as their banks collapsed, driving the US and world economy into the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Obama called the bonuses, which came to light in a Wednesday New [...]

General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations — Money to Come from U.S. Rescue Program

Russ Dallen, Latin American Herald Tribune General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker. According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that [...]

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Cops say legalize drugs part1

Obama™ Is, Once Again, Being Given Credit for Something he Has Not Done; Standing Up to Israel

by Scott Creighton The Reddit headline reads “Obama throws first punch at Israel, demands war-crimes investigation“. Exciting huh? Finally some justice? Finally an even-handed approach toward the Israel/Palestine crisis? Change? Uh, no. Not quite. Susan Rice made a speech on her first day as our representative on the U.N. Security Council in which she made [...]

The Difficulty of Being an Informed American

by Paul Craig Roberts The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If people intend to be informed, they must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A [...]

Kucinich Calls for Putting Federal Reserve Under Our Control

“It is time for the government to operate in the public interests, not in the interests of the private banks.”

The definition of a “two-tiered justice system”

by Glenn Greenwald Aside from the intrinsic dangers and injustices of arguing for immunity for high-level government officials who commit felonies (such as illegal eavesdropping, obstruction of justice, torture and other war crimes), it’s the total selectivity of the rationale underlying that case which makes it so corrupt.  Defenders of Bush officials sing in unison:  We [...]

Barack O’Bush’s Sec. of State Oks More Israeli Attacks

AIPAC tool and Obama ™ Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said this Tuesday… U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that Israel had a right to defend itself and that Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish territory could not go unanswered. “We support Israel’s right to self-defense. The [Palestinian] rocket barrages which are [...]

Barack O’Bush’s Sec. of Defense on “The Right War”

Robert Gates said this to a joint session of the armed services committees in the House and Senate on Tuesday… Villagers need to “see that it’s their army that we’re helping. It’s not us kicking down their door. It’s an Afghan who’s kicking down their door to try and find the bad guy,” said Mr. [...]

We’re Supposed to Give Obama™ Credit for Doing This?

A member of Obama’s economic advisory team got caught with his hand in the cookie jar by an ABC reporter, and we are supposed to praise Obama ™ for putting the brakes on the deal?