George Galloway on The Hour

“The very idea that I can be seriously discussed as a terrorist, when I’m sitting under Big Ben in the British Parliament, and touring the United States… doesn’t that strike people in Canada as just crazy?” – George Galloway.

Obama declares war on auto workers

by Joe Kishore, WSWS President Barack Obama’s speech on the auto industry Monday was nothing less than a declaration of war against the working class. In a statement dripping with class arrogance and cynicism, he rejected the cost-cutting proposals of General Motors and Chrysler as insufficient and demanded more concessions from auto workers. No one [...]

Kucinich to probe $3.6 billion in Merrill Lynch bonuses

by Stephen Webster, Raw Story Even as Merrill Lynch & Co. bled money and warily eyed a merger with Bank of America, company executives were preparing for a windfall. Following the federal government’s promise of $10 billion in TARP funds to buoy the ailing firm through it’s roll-up, Merrill paid out $3.6 billion in bonuses: [...]

Obama’s Attack on the Middle Class

by Paul Craig Roberts, ICH Obama and his public relations team have made it appear that his trillion dollars in higher taxes will fall only on “the rich.” Obama stresses that his tax increase is only for the richest 5 percent of Americans while the other 95 percent receive a tax cut. The fact of [...]

Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques – IDF fashion 2009

by Uri Blau, Haaretz The office at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv handles a constant stream of customers, many of them soldiers in uniform, who come to order custom clothing featuring their unit’s insignia, usually accompanied by a slogan and drawing of their choosing. Elsewhere on the premises, the sketches are turned [...]

Everything for the Banks and NOTHING for the People

by Scott Creighton Two days after President Barack Obama hosted a “very pleasant” meeting in our White House for 13 banking and financial sector CEOs and more banking lobbyists,  he is announcing the pending death of the U.S. auto industry.  In this article from MSNBC, they wait till the very end of the 2 page [...]

Still More Sunday Doodles

by Scott Creighton Perhaps this will make it a little clearer what I am proposing…. I believe that conventional materials commonly used in the demolition business were used to pulverized the lightweight concrete used in the floors as well as destroy the trusses and the interiors of the offices (furniture, file cabinets, ect.) and I [...]

Flim-Flam Obama Man: The “New Democrat[ic]” President’s Wall Street Loyalties Get Clearer Every Day

by Paul Street,   ZNET . “It’s time to put our differences aside. Will you be part of the solution?“ – Nightly Chevron commercial at the end of “The News Hour” on the “Public” Broadcasting System, March 12-March 25, 2009 Many on what passes for a left in the United States have been led to [...]

Yes He Is! – a Blue-Dog Democrat

(Remember all the anger and frustration we progressive liberals felt, while for years our “Change” was put on the back burner, one issue after the other, by the block voting of those damn “Blue-Dog”/DLC democrats in congress? The Blue-Dogs and the DLC are all part of what the Clintons created called “The New Democrats”.  They [...]

Saturday Doodles

Ok. Let’s get this straight; this is NOT the way the towers were built (if you want to see how they were built, go here)!  This is a pre-vis of a mock up of 3 floors. The trusses are the same as the construction of the towers, as are the concrete floors, the floor pans,  [...]

Obama holds “very pleasant” meeting with top US bankers

by Joe Kishore, WSWS US President Barack Obama met behind closed doors for more than an hour and a half with the chief executives of the largest American banks on Friday, reassuring the titans of finance that his administration has their best interests at heart. According to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, the meeting’s [...]

US: Unemployment hits double digits in seven states

by Barry Grey, WSWS Three more states in the US recorded jobless rates of more than 10 percent in February, bringing the total thus far to seven, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department.

Friday Doodles

by Scott Creighton A little more artwork. Dr. Jones once said that experimentation was the most important part of scientific investigation.  I couldn’t agree more.

Barack “I Never Met a War I Didn’t Like” Obama

Obama Plans Additional Afghan Escalation ✔ War on Afghanistan: Despite Talk of “Exit Strategy,” Plan Will Further Increase Presence: Obama declared that the Taliban “must be stopped,” and that Americans must also accept that Pakistan “needs our help.” Obama Continues the “Global War on Terror” ✔ Global War on Terror: President says U.S. must ‘disrupt, [...]

So Now it “Is” Treason? So Now it “Is” a Coup? Should’ve Listened Then, and You Should Definately Listen Now

by Scott Creighton No he’s not a “regulator”, he’s part of a coup. And the sooner you know that, the better off we will all be. Even though team Obama has spoon-fed him the lines, Timothy Geithner is not going to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 or the Bank Holding Company Act (repealed in [...]