Senate Tweaks Away Your Healthcare

by Donna Smith, Common Dreams As my grandmother used to say, “I was born on a weekend but not last weekend.” The latest insult to Americans hungry for a bit of healthcare justice for all comes from the news that the Senate health bill now allows insurance companies to place annual limits on payments for [...]

Tread Carefully Congressmen… The Terrorists Are Still Out There

by Scott Creighton It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  Dennis Kucinich would be wise to remember that. The congressman from Ohio is valiantly working to attempt to use the war powers act to end the illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.  He is going to submit two resolutions as [...]

Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak

Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol (What you are seeing coming into focus rather quickly now is a global mechanism, established by law, to allow the IMF and World Bank to force EVERY NATION into the same [...]

Exclusive: Honduran elections exposed

“Honduran coup regime’s claims about 60% turnout at free and fair elections is revealed as fraud. Also implicated in the video are the wide array of media outlets and governments that have unquestioningly accepted the electoral data of a regime that overthrew the last elected president.” “There is wide agreement that last week’s presidential election [...]

Dear Progressives; You’re Right, It’s Not “Obama’s War”… it’s Yours.

by Scott Creighton At the risk of sounding glib… “We told ya so.” Over a year and a half ago, some of us fought desperately to warn a “New Moon”esque enraptured “progressive” populus that their hero/God/candidate wasn’t what he was being portrayed as; that the campaign was just more false advertising being pawned off on [...]

A new report questions “suicides” at Guantanamo

by Glen Greenwald, Salon On the night of June 10, 2006, three Guantanamo detainees were found dead in their individual cells.  Without any autopsy or investigation, U.S. military officials proclaimed “suicide by hanging” as the cause of each death, and immediately sought to exploit the episode as proof of the evil of the detainees.  Admiral [...]

Liberals Are Useless

by Chris Hedges, TruthDig Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right to organize, universal health care [...]

Occupation 101

Correcting The Presidents Mistakes…

Oh yeah, as far as that “surge” speech of Obama’s goes…. Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates are appearing on Meet the Press this morning, as well as many other Sunday propaganda shows,  to help sell the idea, but the first thing they are going to do is to “correct” some of the statements Obama made: [...]

Trickle-Up Economics

by Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.” One can understand why the banksters are worried. The company, now known as Gold [...]

Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down

by David Degraw, Global Research  As Obama announced plans for escalating the war effort, it has become clear that the Obama Illusion has taken yet another horrifying turn. Before explaining how the Af-Pak surge is a direct attack on the US public, let’s peer through the illusion and look at the reality of the situation. Now [...]

WTC Building 7 Demolition Videos

The official story according to NIST is that one column failed due to the “thermal expansion’ of a few main trusses. Does this look like one column failing to you?  Where is the “raging inferno’ that caused the expansion?

Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke “Complicit” in Financial Crisis and Should Go

by Scott Creighton There is a good interview with Eliot Spitzer on Democracy Now I would like you guys to take a look at. In it, Spitzer puts forward the notion that Bernanke and Geithner should be removed from their respective offices because they were “complicit” in the economic meltdown of the last year and a [...]

Obama jobs summit: “No money for jobs”

by Barry Grey, WSWS Thursday’s White House summit on jobs was an open display of the callousness and indifference of President Barack Obama and the American corporate elite to the plight of the working class. In the course of a two-hour “brainstorming” session with 130 corporate CEOs, government officials, trade union executives and economists, Obama [...]

Obama’s War: The Reaction – The neocons and the war liberals are on board

The following is a part of Raimondo’s AntiWar published article in which he points out some of the most horrendous “progressive” justifications for supporting Obama’s imperialist Afghanistan surge. I am struck by the one example he sites from the Huffington Post. 10 years ago, if someone blindly supported a party leaders bad decision, they would [...]