Peace Prize Laureate Obama Humbly Takes his Place Next to Terrorists (Begin) and War Criminals (Kissinger)

by Scott Creighton
For only the third time in history, a seated U.S. President has won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Barack Obama has been named the recipient of this years award.  According to the chairman of the Nobel committee, President Obama was given the award not so much for what he has done, but for what [...]

Palestinian President Abbas Faces Uproar for Aiding US-Israeli Derailment of UN Report on Gaza Assault

(The following is a transcript of a recent Democracy Now interview in which Rhasid Khalidi describes how the Obama administration helped apply pressure to the leadership of the Palestinian Authority in order to get them withdraw their support of Libya’s request for further action on the Goldstone investigation.)
from Democracy Now, watch the video here
JUAN GONZALEZ: [...]

Chris Dodd is a Lying Warmonger of the “Democrat” Kind

by Scott Creighton
One of the key players in the recent banking coup of the U.S. delivered a stunningly dishonest warmongering speech the other day on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and NO, it wasn’t a republican. 
Chris Dodd has been chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs since Jan 2007.  A number [...]

Times columnist David Brooks exposes “left” supporters of Obama health plan

by Joe Kishore, WSWS
Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, a fairly conscious representative of his class, is among the more perceptive commentators in the bourgeois media. Writing primarily for the benefit of the political and corporate elite, Brooks often attempts to cut through the fog of lies used by politicians to sell their reactionary [...]

First of All… He Does Lie. Second… You SHOULD have Called Bush a Liar

by Scott Creighton
All Lit Up with No Place to Go
The fake progressive blogosphere is lit up today over the republican lawmaker who had the audacity to yell out “You lie!” during Obama’s speech last night. And that is just as they want it because the Obama/DLC/Clintonista White House certainly appreciates a good distraction when they [...]

The Next Costume Design for AR-15 Guy

by Scott Creighton
I would just like to ask AR-15 Guy, “Chris”, a question… you know that song “Proud to be an American”?
So you go out to an event after consulting with the local police (who we know MUST have consulted with the Secret Service to get permission to allow you to do it), wearing your [...]

Barack O’Bush to Boost 401(k) Enrollment for Wall Street

by Scott Creighton
The Obama administration’s hypocrisy is absolutely breathtaking.
At a time when the “adjusted/new math” unemployment numbers  show that there are more people out of work than there have been since 1983, and the major banks are consolodating even more power through control of the market shares via the government’s many varied bailout schemes, Barack [...]

Obama’s Job Hemorrhaging, Union-Busting “Recovery” Rolls On

by Scott Creighton
As the corporatist shills drone on about the “success” of the Obama Stimulus Package, more and more jobs melt away like the steel trusses in the Twin Towers.  The lucky few that still cling to their paychecks by their fingernails are “persuaded” to accept less and less for each day of their labor [...]

Quarantine: The Global Element of the Healthcare Debate

by Scott Creighton
Let’s stop kidding ourselves.  We are a sick nation.
If we stay on the course we are on, desperately begging corrupted politicians for some political solution, the health care “reform” bill will pass and it will do so without a “viable” public option (phony corporate-run “co-ops” not withstanding).  The multinational insurance industry and the [...]

Neoliberal Obama Administration Dropping “The Brick” on America

by Scott Creighton
***UPDATE*** we can now add Iceland and Latvia to the growing list of victim nations.
The European Union and International Monetary Fund have told them to replace private debts with public obligations, and to pay by raising taxes, slashing public spending and obliging citizens to deplete their savings.  FT
Now they are coming for your [...]