S.3081: Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 – U.S. Congress – OpenCongress

 OpenCongress The “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,” introduced by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday with little fanfare, “sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals [...]

The Last Stand for Obamacare’s PR Campaign

by Scott Creighton It’s a remarkably well orchestrated effort going on right now to pass what is laughingly refered to as “healthcare reform” (read as “insurance industry bailout and Longevity Assurance Program”). First you have the senate version of the bill passed with all its massive entitlements for the insurance industry, including but not limited to; [...]

No Bailouts This Time Around in Iceland (but don’t worry… the IMF is working on them as we speak)

How many times do we have to hear “IMF” when these stories pop up before people start putting 2 and 2 together?

Goldman Sucks

Calling All Rebels

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate [...]

More Fear Mongering from the Global Warming Alarmists

Is it melting glaciers? nooooo Is it dying polar bears? noooooo Is it rising sea levels? nooooo It’s worse than all of that combined…. it’s Evil Ahmadinejad blowing up our troops in Iraq!!! That’s right. Pass a Clean Energy Climate Plan to keep those evil Iranians from blowing up our Troops! Me: well, I just [...]

The Drones:A Rare Growth Industry That Thrives In Spite of Abject Failure

by Scott Creighton Dwain Deets should be proud. All over America, things are tough. Schools in California are raising tuition some 30+% and kids who can’t afford the rate increases are seeing their dreams of a decent future go up in neoliberal free market smoke (Guess they can join the military instead, huh?). Entire school [...]

Obama Solution to Stop Outsourcing – Stop Counting Jobs Outsourced (No, Seriously!)

by MikeIlk, Firedoglake The numbers are outrageous, sickening even. How can anyone stand to look at them? Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 factories have closed in the U.S., and another 90,000 are [...]

From New York to Liberia, Greg Palast Tracks Vulture Funds Preying on African Debt

(unregulated free market banking running amok throughout the world. The suffering and misery they are causing is unprecedented in modern history. The “terrorists” have nothing on these bastards.) from Democracy Now Part 1 “Welcome to Liberia in West Africa, where 80 percent of the people survive on less than a single dollar a day. Now [...]

Todays “Neoliberalization of America” News – March 4, 2010

Obama urges swift passage of his cost-cutting health care plan – WSWS – “There are some who have suggested scrapping our system of private insurance and replacing it with government-run health care. Though many other countries have such a system, in America it would be neither practical nor realistic.” Obama. Such a system would be [...]

Misleading Statements by Victoria Ashley

by Scott Creighton Why would someone like victronix01 deliberately mislead the Truth advocates over at Truth Action about the process of testing for residues of high explosives in Ground Zero dust? Seems like a good question to look into, doesn’t it? Ashley’s Ax to Grind: “There’s a reason willyloman is banned from forums. And it’s [...]

IMF-Style Austerity Comes to America

by Ellen Brown, Counterpunch … All of this puts “fiscal responsibility” in a different light.  Rather than saving the future for our grandchildren, as the President himself seems to think it means, it appears to be a code word for delivering public monies into private hands and raising taxes on the already-squeezed middle class.  In [...]

Droning On and On

from Mr. Fish at  Truthdig

15 Doctors for Every 1,000 Medicare Patients in Florida and it’s Going to Get Worse

by Scott Creighton A 21% Medicare reimbursement reduction is set to take effect this month in Florida and elsewhere I suppose. This is part of the neoliberal IMF type structural adjustments being levied on the American people. Like they are doing to the public school systems all across America, they deliberately undermine useful programs to the [...]

A Total IMF Neoliberal Restructuring Plan Coming to America (where have you heard that before?)