Obama Pulls a Clinton

by Robert Sheer, Truthdig Here we go again. When Bill Clinton suffered an electoral reversal after his first two years in office, he abruptly embraced the corporate money guys who had financed his congressional opposition in an effort to purchase a second term. On Tuesday in his Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece, Barack Obama veered [...]

Obama Uses Executive Order to Begin Neoliberal Assault on Regulation

by Scott Creighton The following definition of deregulation comes from “John Williamson’s “Washington Consensus“, a list of policy proposals that appeared to have gained consensus approval among the Washington-based international economic organizations (like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank).”  The active definition of neoliberalism or “free trade” ideology. Deregulation – abolition of regulations [...]

Was Yesterday’s Stock Market “Glitch” Really Big Banking Blackmail?

by Scott Creighton The White House gets its way again. They get their way on two measures that would have given the people at least a little control of the “too big too fail” banking system. But how they got it, well that might just be the REAL story of the day. “I mean this [...]

Exposed: Bernanke’s “Skimming Operation”

(So what the banks did in a sense was, they carefully removed restrictions on housing loans and created what the industry called “liar loans”, loans that they knew would default when they were making them. They got their co-conspirator at the credit rating agencies to slap “AAA” ratings on them.  They got their money up front [...]

The Crisis Is Not Over

by Paul Craig Roberts, Information Clearing House Readers ask if the financial crisis is over, if the recovery is for real and, if not, what are Americans’ prospects. The short answer is that the financial crisis is not over, the recovery is not real, and the U.S. faces a far worse crisis than the financial [...]

The Obama opiate: Crisis deepens, crowds cheer

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat) by Larry Chin, Global Research Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by [...]

Obama touts economic “recovery”

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat) by Tom Eley and Barry Grey, WSWS The Obama administration and the media have seized on second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data to promote the notion that the recession is ending and “recovery” is underway. This effort is [...]

Ron Paul Wants to Audit the Fed While Team DLC Obama™ Brand Wants to Give the Fed More Power

by Scott Creighton Tim Geithner, Barack Obama, and Larry Summers are going to announce tomorrow their new plan to increase the powers of the Federal Reserve Bank system in America. The same Federal Reserve PRIVATE Bank system that just fucked us out of TRILLIONS of dollars and the SAME Federal Reserve PRIVATE Bank system that [...]

Barack Obama is Not “the greatest man of our generation”

The Miracle of Chile comes to America by Scott Creighton (reposted on March 12th 2012) Recently I communicated with someone I knew from a previous life; back when I had a future.  This friend is a liberal and an accomplished artist who is committed to the craft of his work and the teaching of others [...]

Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From the Banks He’s Bailing Out?

Mark Ames, Truthdig Is Larry Summers taking kickbacks from the banks he’s bailing out? Last month, a little-known company where Summers served on the board of directors received a $42 million investment from a group of investors, including three banks that Summers, Obama’s effective “economy czar,” has been doling out billions in bailout money to: [...]