Geraldo Rivera and the WTC 7 Demoliton

(H/T to Kenny’s Sideshow) Rivera even says “It is an intriguing topic, I’m certainly much more open minded about it than I was and it is because of the involvement of the 9/11 families and all these engineers and architects, clearly they know more than I do.” Now like Kenny says, this is an interesting [...]

Beneath the Surface: the investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan

Kay posted this link as a comment on one of the Cheonan stories. I’m glad she did. Good info. Thanks Kay

George Bush is Not a War Criminal in Jon Stewart’s World?

by Scott Creighton Jon Stewart is still trying to run damage control over the “Million Moderate March” but it seems, like Rand Paul, when confronted with the opportunity to speak off the cuff, it would probably be better if he had just kept his mouth shut.

Neoliberal War on Public Education in London

50,000 students protested yesterday in London. They were protesting huge increases in tuition costs and a 40% reduction in public financing for higher education.  Not only that, but apparently the universities have decided to cut teaching costs by 80% which means firing most of the tenured professors and hiring replacements fresh out of school for [...]

Obama Administration Keeps the Bush Tax Cuts for the Super Rich

(as if we expected anything else) from Huffington Post President Barack Obama’s top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board, temporary continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers. That appears to be the only way, said David Axelrod, that middle-class [...]

Obama commission: Slash Social Security, reduce corporate taxes

Progressives across the US are condemning President Obama’s deficit-reduction commission for its proposal, released today, to cut Social Security payments while lowering corporate taxes and the highest income tax bracket. The commission, put together by the White House in February, released a draft report (PDF) Wednesday that proposes deep cuts to domestic and military spending [...]

Young Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly

Much has been written about this incident. Thought you should see it for yourselves. Say whatever you like about these kids, but if you go into a room with a thousand rabid zionists and do this to Bibi, you got balls.  Good for them. Their site is called Young Jewish and Proud.

Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Emerging One World Economy

from The Economic Collapse Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against “those who see globalization as a threat” and he [...]

French police infiltrated protests against Sarkozy austerity program

by Anthony Torres, WSWS During the recent strike wave in France against the Nicolas Sarkozy government’s austerity measures and pension “reform”, demonstrators observed police infiltrating several contingents and carrying out a variety of provocative actions. The police have very conspicuously decided not to deny that they infiltrated the demonstrations. The dubious role played by some [...]

Capitalism and the War on Public Education

by Charles Sullivan, Information Clearinghouse My own experience indicates that the average college student is more concerned with grades than with learning. Therefore grades are more of an impediment to learning than they are an accurate measure of it. Scoring well on tests is not an indication of comprehension of complex ideas or the thought [...]

Some Facts About Barack Obama’s Asian Tour

by Scott Creighton President Obama has just started the second leg of his great “Pressure China Asian Tour” with a stopover in Indonesia after having just left India. Over the course of the entire trip, the fawning White House Press Corps on both the left and the right have been dutifully regurgitating whatever the press secretary dictates to them [...]

Obama on “60 Minutes”: A servant of big business

by Patrick Martin, WSWS US President Barack Obama was interviewed for nearly half an hour on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” broadcast Sunday night. The discussion with correspondent Steve Kroft was conducted on Thursday, November 4, and was the only extended public interview with Obama since the rout of the Democrats in last Tuesday’s [...]

The Bright Shining City Upon a Hill Revisited

by Scott Creighton “The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976.” New York Times While Barack Obama and his massive entourage of up to 3,000 people are still skipping through their 10-day, four-country, Asian rock-star tour drumming up new free market trade deals [...]

Working Man’s Death

A glimpse into the world of free trade hard labor where deregulation runs wild. This is what we export to the world and This is the future of America if we do nothing. Brothers

In the Name of Our “National Interests”, Real Democracy and the Global Movement Toward Sane Economic Policy are Presented as Diseases That Must Not be Allowed to Spread

by Scott Creighton The other week I wrote about how the opening segment of the “Banksy” Simpons episode wasn’t really an anti-globalisation statement, but rather it was designed as propaganda to assist in the new demonization of the Chinese economic model.  In short, I said the segment was actually pro-globalization. The push for globalization over the [...]