Cindy’s Soapbox Interview (yesterday)

(the interview is up on Cindy’s Soapbox) Last week’s interview is supposed to be aired tomorrow as a bonus spot after Cindy interviews Helen Thomas (Sunday Oct. 31st). Check it out here, if you get a chance, starts at 2:00pm pacific time (5 eastern) Centrist Central: How Stewart and Colbert are Selling the Neocon Agenda [...]

Daily Show Executive Producer Assaults Truth Activists

by Scott Creighton It’s in the day-to-day grind that we can really find ourselves; how we react everyday to the little things in life that piss us off. If you want to see how Daily Show executive producers react to things when they are not busy telling America’s Liberal’s and Left wing progressives to just [...]

Unemployment Benefits: The 99ers

It’s the Little Things in Life That Keep Us Going

A few hours ago I got a phone call.  It was President Obama asking me to make sure I would get out and vote. Alright… it was an Obama robocall..  guess he has no more TV shows to do this week. He even asked me at the end of the first segment to press “1″ [...]

French Senate votes pension cuts over mass opposition

(The days of the robber barons are back. French police are trying to FORCE striking refinery workers back to work in the name of “national defense”.) by Alex Lantier, WSWS The French Senate voted 177-153 yesterday to approve President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension cuts in the face of overwhelming popular opposition and continuing strikes. The government [...]

American Everyman on Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

UPDATE: Well, looks like I spoke too soon. Cindy sent me an email and it appears that they are having server troubles and so the interview won’t be aired today as planned, but rather it will be up next Sunday (the 31st) along with an interview she is doing with Helen Thomas.  Sorry folks. Unfortunately [...]

Wikileaks Propaganda Helps Build Case for Attacking Iran

Scott Creighton Are people still buying that “Wikileaks as hero” bullshit?  Talk about re-branding old discredited intelligence, this psyop program is childishly stupid and painfully obvious. What’s next? Stories about Iranian speedboats attacking US destroyers? How about a nice weeping ambassador’s daughter recanting tales of Iranian soldiers tossing babies from their incubators? Talk about cognitive [...]

Obama’s Finest Hour: Killing Innocent People For “Made-Up Crap”

by Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque If ever I am tempted by the siren songs of my tribal past as a deep-fried, yellow-dawg Democrat, and begin to feel any faint, atavistic stirrings of sympathy for the old gang, I simply think of things like the scenario below, sketched last week by Johann Hari, and those wispy [...]

Rally to Restore Credibility of the Vishy Dems

by Scott Creighton “Pétain and the Vichy Regime willfully collaborated with the German occupation to a high degree.“ The Viacom backed “Rally to Restore Sanity” is rolling right along. They have several websites up and a “grassroots” network of folks hosting trips to DC and social viewing house parties since Comedy Central will dedicate their [...]

UK announces 490,000 job cuts

Harshest austerity measures since second world war unveiled as public spending is slashed to deal with country’s debts. from Al Jazeera Britain will cut 490,000 public sector jobs over four years under austerity measures designed to reduce the country’s record deficit. George Osborne, the finance minister, told parliament on Wednesday that the job losses were “unavoidable when [...]

With White House backing, banks resume foreclosure evictions

by Tom Eley, World Socialist Website On Monday, Bank of America (BOA), the nation’s largest lender, and GMAC of Ally Financial announced they are resuming foreclosure evictions and sales in states where they had temporarily suspended them, claiming that they found no impropriety in their foreclosure documentation. BOA’s decision means foreclosure proceedings against more than [...]

Jimmy Carter says Palestinians live in a ‘cage’

October 19, 2010 “AP” — – DAMASCUS, Syria — Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that Palestinians are “living in a cage” in Gaza and that the militant group Hamas must be included in all major efforts for peace. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, right, meets with members of the The Elders, the independent group of [...]

France Burning as Youth Protest

(H/T What Really Happened)

Confrontation builds between French workers and Sarkozy

by Alex Lantier, World Socialist Website Strike action continued yesterday in France against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension cuts, with truckers joining energy workers on strike amid a looming gasoline shortage and reports of increasing police violence against student protests. Workers and students are protesting Sarkozy’s planned two-year increase in the retirement age, with a corresponding [...]

From Global Depression to Global Governance

by Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research We now stand at the edge of the global financial abyss of a ‘Great Global Debt Depression,’ where nations, mired in extreme debt, are beginning to implement ‘fiscal austerity’ measures to reduce their deficits, which will ultimately result in systematic global social genocide, as the middle classes vanish and [...]