It’s Official: Economic Collapse Brought to You by Same Banks We Bailed Out and the Same Banks that Paid themselves BILLIONS in Bonuses (of our money) for Doing It

by Scott Creighton The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion.  AP The last time the government’s revenues were this bleak, the year was 1932 in the [...]

Panetta: ‘Reality’ of 9/11 excuses Bush scandals

(Obama’s man at the CIA (or should I say, “Clinton’s man”?) sings a different tune now that he is in charge of the CIA.  It’s all about 9/11.   9/11 justifies ALL HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.   9/11 means we have to ignore WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.  This rationalization from the “CHANGE” regime?  This rationalization [...]

The Obama opiate: Crisis deepens, crowds cheer

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat) by Larry Chin, Global Research Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by [...]

Obama touts economic “recovery”

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat) by Tom Eley and Barry Grey, WSWS The Obama administration and the media have seized on second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data to promote the notion that the recession is ending and “recovery” is underway. This effort is [...]