Obama wins the right to invoke “State Secrets” to protect Bush crimes

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon In a 6-5 ruling issued this afternoon, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Obama administration a major victory in its efforts to shield Bush crimes from judicial review, when the court upheld the Obama DOJ’s argument that Bush’s rendition program, used to send victims to be tortured, are “state secrets” [...]

US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies’

(“Support the Troops!” or “War is Hell”… sometime I forget which cliched piece of propaganda I am supposed to use… damn it. Why don’t I get those Talking Points in the morning like everyone else… but, things are going “well” according to the CFR servant, Hillary Clinton) by Chris McGreal, The Guardian Twelve American soldiers [...]

Children Among 24 Killed as US Drone Strikes Rock Pakistan

by Jason Ditz, AntiWar At least four children were killed today in addition to 20 other “suspected militants” in a series of four US drone strikes against sites tied to the Haqqani militant group in North Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The attacks destroyed three homes in North Waziristan as well as [...]

Clinton to CFR: ‘New American Moment’ Has Arrived

(Hillary Clinton is a vile globalist bitch; a grotesque caricature of a new American “liberal”. She is a sellout, a liar, and a traitor. She is Iago and Cheney, rolled into one, with the scant remaining human traits of each cast aside.) by Jason Ditz, AntiWar Speaking today before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Secretary of [...]

Letters from auto workers on Indianapolis struggle

reposted from WSWS The following letters were sent by auto workers in Indianapolis and Michigan to the WSWS in response to the ongoing struggle by workers in Indianapolis, Indiana. The workers in Indiana are resisting efforts by General Motors and JD Norman, backed by the United Auto Workers, to push through a 50 percent wage [...]

Obama unveils pro-business “jobs” plan

by Tom Eley, WSWS President Barack Obama’s Wednesday speech on the economy in Cleveland, Ohio was an exercise in deceit and demagogy. Presenting himself as a defender of the middle class against the wealthy, Obama outlined a “jobs plan” based on a series of corporate tax give-aways that have long been championed by the Republican [...]

Race To The Top: Obama Follows in Pinochet’s Footsteps

by Scott Creighton Obama’s neoliberal “Race To The Top” program was nothing more than the federal government’s attempt to blackmail states into undermining their public education system for the benefit of the privitization of schools. Essentially it was the next step in the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” program which set up the standardized tests [...]

Neither Gravity nor Thermite: Video Evidence Points to High Explosives Used in the Controlled Demolition of Twin Towers

by Scott Creighton  (H/T to Kenny’s Sideshow)  A video posted at Kenny’s Sideshow (quietly emerging as one of the best Truth sites out there) examines the formerly unheralded events that took place at Fresh Kills landfill right after 9/11.  It is intended to show the complex process that was set up to “recover” human remains and [...]

The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis”

by Andrew Gavin Marshal, Global Research Part 1 As the 9th anniversary of 9/11 nears, and the war on terror continues to be waged and grows in ferocity and geography, it seems all the more imperative to return to the events of that fateful September morning and re-examine the reasons for war and the nature [...]

The Nation on the Detroit march for “Jobs, Justice and Peace”: Deceit and self-delusion

by David Walsh, WSWS On August 28, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Bob King and a host of other union leaders and Democratic Party politicians addressed a crowd of several thousand people in Detroit. The march and rally were held in the name of “Jobs, Justice and Peace.” More than 40 [...]

Murder, Spies and Voting Lies: Rigged elections exposed

“The ‘corporatization of America’ during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.” Noam Chomsky Part 1 “The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” Noam Chomsky Part 2 This is an [...]

Florida’s High-Speed Answer to a Foreclosure Mess

(Foreclosures are being processed like goods on a factory floor. They brought in hand selected retired judges, the kind that support neoliberal austery measures, to “decrease the backlog” of cases in Florida at the expense of the rights of the homeowners. The War on the Middle Class keeps rolling along…) by G. Morgenson and G. [...]

Waking Up in the 1930s

by Howie Steir, Truth Dig In the year 2010, America once again embraced the bread line. That distant, faded, iconic black-and-white image of the Great Depression has re-emerged across the nation, waiting to be updated fully into HD color. Just as we seldom see pictures of American war dead returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, we [...]

US unemployment rose in August

by Barry Grey, WSWS US payrolls fell by 54,000 and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.6 percent in August from 9.5 percent the previous month, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department. The net job loss in August marked the third straight month in which the US economy shed jobs. [...]

Hightower: If You Don’t Fight for the Middle Class, Kiss It Good-Bye

by Jim Hightower, Alter Net America’s corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they’re doing all they can to create millions more of them. They’re knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufacturing jobs to high tech, reducing full-time work to part-time, downsizing our workplaces, busting unions, cutting health care coverage and canceling pensions — while [...]