Did Lyin Joe Lieberman Use His White House Connections to Get Keith Olbermann Fired?

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: The liberal blog-o-sphere is a buzz this morning and it appears the spin is to blame it all on the Comcast merger. No one is talking about what Keith O said about Lyin Joe less than 24 hours before he got sacked. “don’t let the delusional liar door hit you in the [...]

Tunisia PM vows to quit after polls

(Ghannouchi tried to take over the presidency after Ben Ali was driven from office by the outbreak of major protests across Tunisia. When that didn’t pan out, he set to work filling cabinet positions with pro-IMF and pro-western allies of the former president. But the protests have been continuing and now he has to promise to step aside [...]

The Power of Change – Obama Rewards MSNBC’s Boss for Election Bias

by Scott Creighton President Obama has sold out again. Seems to be a pattern for the man. It is being announced today that Obama is replacing Paul Volker with GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt as the head of a Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. MSNBC served in the capacity of the “All Obama All the Time” channel in the [...]

Wikileaks™ Cables Used to Remove Irish Foreign Minister on the Eve of the Announcement of the IMF Austery Plan

by Scott Creighton On Nov. 30th 2010, Wikileaks released a cable written by Ambassador Thomas C. Foley which purports to implicate Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern in complicity with the widespread extraordinary rendition program being run by the CIA and U.S. military during the Iraq war. This “leak” was designed to embarrass Ahern and there is no way [...]

Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment

(The Ben Ali government had imposed the neoliberal IMF/World Bank reforms on the people of Tunisia and he was steadily losing popularity. Tunisia was also a partner in the GWOT.  Too many writers out there are repeating the economic figures from the World Bank in order to argue that Tunisia was some kind of utopia for [...]