A rising tide of social misery

by David Walsh, WSWS Contrary to Obama administration and media claims about the recession “easing,” millions of working people in America are losing their jobs, earnings and health care benefits at an accelerating pace. While executives at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and other financial giants prepare to pay themselves billions of dollars this year in [...]

US health care legislation to leave millions uninsured, ration care

by Kate Randah, WSWS US Congress continued to debate reform of the health care system this week. In a 13-10 vote on Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved a $615 billion Democratic-sponsored bill, with no Republicans supporting the measure. The Senate health committee was the first of five committees in Congress [...]

Senior Obama Official Backs Cheney and CIA, Says Concealment of Assassin Program Legal

by Jeremy Scahill, CommonDreams Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are preparing to hold hearings to investigate the role of vice president Dick Cheney in allegedly ordering the C.I.A. to conceal a secret assassination program from Congress. As I reported yesterday, there are two crucial issues at play: the nature of the U.S. assassination program [...]

Team DLC Obama™ Brand Sells Logging Rights in National Park

by K. Goldstein, HuffPo This week, the Obama administration approved the sale of timber in a roadless national forest in Alaska. The Tongass National Forest is a 17 million acre temperate rain forest in southeast Alaska, which is home to both endangered species and native Alaskan tribes. It is the largest temperate rain forest in [...]

Clinton (tells CFR): US Won’t Hesitate to Use Military Against Iran

by Jason Ditz, AntiWar In a high-profile policy address before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the US wouldn’t not hesitate to use its military to “defend our friends, our interests, and above all, our people” during the segment discussing Iran.

Obama tailors community college plan to corporate interests

(This is a continuation of the Clinton/Bush/Obama neoliberal “for profit” privatization of every single public service possible; in this case, the education system. Another article from WSWS details Detroit’s dying public school system. It’s a good read.) by Jack Cody, WSWS In a speech delivered Tuesday on the campus of Macomb Community College in Warren, [...]

Bernie Sanders: The VA is a Socialized Health Care System, Right Mr. McCain?

“The function of what we are doing here is NOT to support the private health insurance industry. I know that is a shock. The function of what we are trying to do here is too provide the best quality health care for the American people, in the most cost effective way.“  Bernie Sanders, at a [...]

Report claims Israelis used Palestinians as human shields

(Let’s check and see if the Israeli Spin Handbook has anything to help with this) by Kevin Flower, from CNN A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what it says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers accuses the Israeli military of intentionally putting Palestinian civilians at risk during its recent operation [...]

Israel Project’s 2009 “NewSpeak” Handbook

If you are interested, you can go to NewsWeek and view the 2009 Israel Project’s Global Language Dictionary.  Though it has nothing to do with the definition of words, it has everything to do with telling Israel’s advocates what to say about any topic that could possibly come up. This is the board certified, Israel [...]

Ex-Clinton aides advising Honduran coup regime

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS Ever since the military abducted President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint on June 28 and expelled him from the country, the Obama administration has cast itself as a steadfast defender of “democracy” in Honduras. The real nature of that defense has become somewhat clearer with the news that key former aides [...]

Put 2 and 2 Together:Cheney’s “Secret Program” was the CIA “Hit-Squad”, and 13 Doctors Swear Dr. Kelly’s Death Was Not a Suicide

by Scott Creighton It is being reported that Cheney’s recently revealed secret CIA program was indeed his “assassination squad”, but that they were to be targeting “top al Qaeda operatives” overseas. Well, they were going overseas (some of the time), but they weren’t going after al Qaeda. That much we should all know by now. [...]

The Fed Under Fire

David Ray Griffin Vs. Noam Chomsky on 9-11 Conspiracy

Obama orders probe of alleged mass grave

(a stunning reversal of their official position from the Obama White House) ***UPDATE*** – Oh, wait a minute… maybe not as “stunning” as I thought. Seems he may be “investigating” the Bush administration’s lack of investigations, rather than opening up a new investigation into the war-crime itself. President Obama has ordered national security officials to [...]

War Crimes and the White House: The Bush Administration’s Cover-Up of the Dasht-e-Leili Massacre

This is the story of Dasht-e Laili. This past Friday, the Obama administration announced that there was no reason to even investigate what happened.