Chris Hedges: Fighting corporate rape of US

Interviewer:”Obama is a smart man. Why would he do this? Why would he continue these wars knowing what it is doing to our country during this economic recession and knowing the history involved?” Hedges: “Because he’s weak.  Obama is a brand. He functions as a brand… it worked quite effectively until a year later when people [...]

News of the Day:Feb. 15th, 2010

Clinton: Iran Becoming a Military Dictatorship – AP Writer, MSNBC ; Globalist shill and warmongering neocon Hillary Clinton is trying to spin-up another lie about Iran in order to justify attacking the country. It takes a special kind of Cheneyesque liar to attempt to make that claim about Iran when you are secretary of state for [...]

Frozen Wasteland

Just for the fun of it. I put this up because they have a woodburning stove in their RV. Awesome.

“Global Temps Cooling Since Jan. 2002″ – Says Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA),

by Scott Creighton (I guess the next thing we can expect to hear from certain global warming enthusiasts is “Long term global cooling is exactly what we would expect to see from global warming.”) The following quotes are taken from an interview with Phil Jones and recently published by the BBC. Question: Do you agree that [...]

Sanders Grills Geithner and Takes on Deficit Blame Game

Sanders: “Why didn’t the Obama administration let the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans expire this year. It would have brought in an additional $100 billion dollars in that one year period. We have … the most unequal distribution of income and wealth I think… people are outraged as the economy collapses and the wealthiest [...]

Obama vs. Obama

by Michael Brenner, Huffington Post The enigma that is Barack Obama grows day by day. Contradiction after contradiction, abrupt gear shifts, perpetual motion that never reaches a destination. ‘Obscene’ Wall Street bonuses suddenly transmute into well earned rewards for a good guy golfing buddy; the imperative to act boldly on the jobs crisis means placing [...]

America, the land of inequality

by Tom Eley, WSWS New studies reveal that the social divide between rich and poor in the US has grown much starker in the current economic crisis, and that even before it hit the country was the most unequal of the advanced economies, with great wealth and extreme poverty having become virtually hereditary conditions. President [...]

A Request from Jewish Voice For Peace

(this was sent to me today) Dear scott, Midnight arrests. Defamation of human rights organizations. Expulsion of journalists. Human rights demonstrations broken up with violence. Censored films. Confiscated laptops. That’s just a fraction of the reality on the ground in Israel/Palestine that stands in contrast to the official story about ‘the only democracy in the [...]

Detroit schools offer class in how to to work at Walmart

by Muriel Kane, Raw Story Four inner-city Detroit high schools have decided that employment with Walmart is an opportunity worth training their students to pursue. The schools have teamed up with the giant merchandiser to offer a for-credit class in job-readiness training that also includes entry-level after-school jobs. … Detroit’s teachers have also been chafing [...]

More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation

The rapid mobilization of U.S troops in Haiti was not primarily done for humanitarian reasons; we’re likely to see a neoliberal economic plan imposed, at gunpoint if necessary. by Arun Gupta, AlterNet Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the [...]

The New Junk Economics:From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy

You have to go to this Global Research webpage and listen to this KPFA, Guns and Butter, interview with Dr. Michael Hudson.  (OR, just click on the word “download” below and listen on your Windows Media player.) “The New Junk Economics: From Democracy to Neoliberal Oligarchy” with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We discuss [...]

There is Still Time For Real Reform, Listen to the American People

[read Dr. Flowers open letter to President Obama after the break]

Bill Nye Calls Questioning of the IPCC Report “Unpatriotic” on the Maddow Progressive Propaganda Program

by Scott Creighton During the Rachel Maddow ”Status Quo Regurgitation Show”, Rachel had Bill Nye (the Science Guy) on in an effort to pump up the volume on the anthropogenic global warming issue. Of course, the main thrust of the show was to support the lagging ideology that the science of global warming is all solved and proven (no [...]

The Democrats, the Deficit, and Social Security

by Shamus Cooke, WSWS It’s official: the Democrats are coming after Social Security and Medicare.  How refreshing that all the backroom scheming and political conspiring is finally out in the open.  Before, the corporate elite had been having this conversation in private, via right-wing think tanks and business journals.  Now, mainstream media is promoting these ideas, including the [...]

Obama’s “Jobs” Bill Won’t Actually Create Jobs… but it Will Extend the Patriot Act and it Might Help Undermine Social Security. Thank you Barack Obush

by Scott Creighton Just a quick note: It is being reported that the new Jobs Bill created by Team DLC Obama™ Brand won’t actually create many jobs, if any. But on the upside, it will continue the unconstitutional and highly unethical Patriot Act provisions that were set to expire on Feb. 28, 2010. It sounds great: A [...]