Denial of breast cancer screenings will have deadly consequences

(and so it begins. What republicans and the Blue Dogs bemoan as a “government takeover of healthcare” is in fact, exactly the opposite; the insurance industry’s takeover of related government agencies.  The recent USPSTF study on mammogram screenings is a prime example… and certainly a hint of things to come. In this case, the government agency [...]

Obama’s China Junket: “We’re Opening Doors for Wall Street and Nothing More”

by Mike Whitney, Global Research Barack Obama took Hu Jintao to task this morning, scolding the dejected-looking Chinese leader at a press conference held in Beijing. Obama delivered one ferocious jab after another, claiming that China’s dollar-peg has cost the US millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs while creating gigantic trade imbalances which have destabilized the [...]

Todays Team DLC Obama™ Brand Update- Obama’s Public Spanking in China

by Scott Creighton While the illustrious one is in China, groveling his way thru yet another meeting with a foreign head of state, (another one whose human rights record can’t stand the light of day, as it just so happens) news here back at home is not so good. Maybe if someone told President Obama that he should [...]

ABC News Exclusive: Obama Admin Slashed 60,000 Jobs From Recent Stimulus Report

by Mathew Jaffe, ABC News The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted “unrealistic data,” according to a document obtained by ABC News.

ABC News Exclusive: Jobs ‘Saved or Created’ in Congressional Districts That Don’t Exist

from Jonathan Karl, ABC News Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the website set up by the Obama Administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There’s one problem, though: There is no 9th [...]

The Weakness of the Goldstone Report

by Scott Creighton After the break, I am going to post videos from the “Goldstone V Gold” debate at Brandeis University, a leading jewish university, where Richard Goldstone was warmly received by the student body for his work on the UN’s Goldstone Report which detailed the events and subsequent human rights violations during Israel’s recent “Operation Cast Lead” in [...]

Report: Bill would reduce senior care

(I saw a headline on the MSNBC site  that got my attention; “Health Bill Would Reduce Senior Care“… it’s a reposting of the Washington Post article I have posted below.   I then found a favorable review on the Daily Kos discussing the same article and saying they were glad to see this getting some attention. The [...]

The first TV Advertisment for the RFID Chips and the Bilderberg/Trilateral Candidates For the Presidency of the EU

“The plan is to get everyone chipped. That’s the goal. Get RFID chips put in everyone and everything is tied to these things. Money, healthcare, transportation … everything. And if someone gets out of line, we just turn off their chip.” Arron Russo talking about his conversation with a member of the Rockefeller family. On the Ball Marketing [...]

After years of detention and torture, Ten Guantánamo prisoners to face US trial

by Patrick Martin, WSWS US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that ten of the prisoners now held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp would be transferred to US locations and placed on trial on terrorism charges. The purpose of these high-profile trials is to reinforce the claims by first Bush and now Obama that [...]

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and a primary care physician in Cambridge, speaks with  Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, about the House version of the Obamacare plan. Very good interview. Go see the video at Democracy Now website or just read the full transcript after the break. … Congress needs to start [...]

Denying responsibility for the wars one cheers on

The NYT columnist who has supported four wars on Muslims in six years decries the Islamic disregard for human life by Glenn Greenwald, Salon David Brooks’ column today perfectly illustrates what lies at the core of our political discourse:  namely, self-loving tribalistic blindness laced with a pathological refusal to accept responsibility for one’s actions.  Brooks claims there [...]

Obama’s Sophomoric Ft. Hood Sales Pitch

by Scott Creighton A few days ago, I told a family member that the Ft. Hood story just didn’t “sound” right and after reading some reviews of President Obama’s Ft. Hood speech, I am certain now that the official narrative has been completely managed and manipulated from very early on.

A Little More Information on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:He’s Not Very Extreme for Your Average Extremist

by Scott Creighton The intercepted communications between Ft. Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the controversial Anwar al-Awlaki, a former imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, was not suspect in any way, according to “official sources”. In fact, according to a CNN report, the two emails both pertained to research that [...]

Israel Says “Arbeit Macht Frei” as they Set Up “Work Camps” for Palestinians… oh, I mean “illegal migrant workers”…

(you gotta be shitting me. I wonder if the gate to the camps will read “Work Brings Freedom”) from the leading Israeli newspaper  Haaretz The government is considering establishing work camps in the south of the country, where illegal migrant workers will receive shelter, food and medical care, Army Radio reported Wednesday. In exchange, illegal [...]

Lies, War, and Empire

by Scott Creighton In honor of the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s decision to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan to prop up the “freely elected” president Karzai, I offer the following; Michael Parenti’s 2007 lecture… “imperialism is the process of empire. Empires do imperialism. That’s what they do… Imperialism is not only the process, it’s the [...]