Once More Into the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More…

by Scott Creighton As the forest burns and flames leap from tree to brush, the wildlife stampedes to safety ignoring the clarion call of those they left behind.  Cowardice is their only recognizable feature after their mask of courage melts away. We who were once the few who stood against the tide of imperialist America’s [...]

Obama administration targets the working class

by Patrick Martin, WSWS In compelling GM to file for bankruptcy, Obama is giving the signal to all of corporate America to attack the jobs, wages, pensions and health benefits fought for by working people in the course of more than a century. The full power of the US government is being used to set [...]

Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From the Banks He’s Bailing Out?

Mark Ames, Truthdig Is Larry Summers taking kickbacks from the banks he’s bailing out? Last month, a little-known company where Summers served on the board of directors received a $42 million investment from a group of investors, including three banks that Summers, Obama’s effective “economy czar,” has been doling out billions in bailout money to: [...]

Catholic Church Spokesman Donahue Spins Recent Abuse Report into “Anti-Catholic Agenda”

Author Posts $1 Million Dollar Bounty for Prosecution of War Criminals

The author of a new book, Why Do You Kill?, that details the experiences of the members of the Iraqi resistance fighters has apparently announced on FireDogLake a 1 Million Dollar bounty for anyone who can bring Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Blair before a judge for criminal prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. [...]

Redefining Torture: The Mancow/Keith-O Show

by Scott Creighton I have deliberately stayed out of the Mancow/water-boarding fiasco because I just can’t stand obvious propaganda and PR moves. I don’t care what side of the pretend left/right divide it comes from, it’s just stagnate BS one way or the other. But today, someone wrote something about this insipid little sideshow that [...]

The Obama Youth Corps Wave

“Fascism isn’t something those “other” people did, it’s right here.“ “You ask “How could the German people do nothing as all those innocent people were being murdered?“ “For the rest of your lives you will never allow a group’s will to usurp your individual rights…“ or the rights of others… no matter what the cost, [...]

The fundamental social division is class, not race or gender

(“Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton are all representatives, not of “blacks” or “women,” but of the most rapacious imperialist ruling class on the planet…  Barack Obama is the culmination of this process.”) by Patrick Martin, WSWS The introduction of Sonia Sotomayor as President Obama’s first selection for the US Supreme Court [...]

GM workers speak out on concessions contract

Photos show rape and sex abuse in Iraq jails: report

“These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.“  Maj Gen Taguba Sworn testimony of witnesses reported on by Taguba (official documents, PDFs) Reuters Photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse which U.S. President Barack Obama does not want released include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Thursday. (Lying again: [...]

U.S.: “There’s No Way I’m Going to Deploy to Afghanistan”

MARFA, Texas, May 26 (IPS) – “It’s a matter of what I’m willing to live with,” Specialist Victor Agosto of the U.S. Army, who is refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan, explained to IPS. “I’m not willing to participate in this occupation, knowing it is completely wrong.” “I never had any traumatic experiences, never fired [...]

Unions and Detroit school board hold meeting to prepare for concessions

(I wonder if they will make Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, a partner in some Charter/for profit school corporation with full membership on the Board of Directors and a healthy chunk of their stock as part of the new contract like they did the UAW.) from WSWS The Detroit Federation of [...]

Reject GM-government-UAW blackmail!

(“In exchange for saving the company $1.5 billion labor costs, the UAW apparatus will be handed billions in cash and preferred stock—that pay a $585 million annual dividend—along with a 17.5 percent ownership stake in GM and a seat on its board of directors.”  The union itself will profit from the deal they helped Team [...]

Obama/Cheney – Policy differences or high crimes? an interview with Mr. Swanson

by Scott Creighton Though Mr. Swanson and I have had our differences in the past (in the interests of full disclosure; David created a justification to ban me from his site at the same time he banned another, rather tenacious 9/11 Truth advocate, JD.  This, of course was after one of his admins had made [...]

Bring Cheney before Congress to Testify Under Oath

from Kucinich’s website Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who led opposition to the war in Iraq and introduced legislation to impeach both Vice President Dick Cheney and President George Bush, made the following statement in response to an address by Mr. Cheney at the American Enterprise Institute today: