Lyin Joe Lieberman: Praises “Brave Syrian Freedom Fighters” and Calls for a new “Coalition of the Willing”

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: CNN promotes Lyin Joe Lieberman and a brand new “Gay Girl in Damascus” psyop!  Now they got “Syrian Danny” who is a British citizen pleading for a NATO bombing in Syria. This guy says the only thing that can save the country he does not live in is for the United [...]

The Obama Justice Department vs Big Five Banks Settlement is Actually a Payoff for Services Rendered

by Scott Creighton Keep this information in mind as you read the following article: The largest banks made a combined 13 billion dollars in profits from 7.77 trillion dollars of undisclosed emergency loans from the Federal Reserve bank over and above the 780 billion dollar banker bailouts. The loans and the bailouts were a direct [...]

S. 1867 the Department of Defense Authorization Act: It’s More Convoluted Than You Think

by Scott Creighton Indefinitely detaining terror suspects in military facilities and prosecuting them via military tribunals: Let’s make one thing perfectly clear – according to the letter of the law and the language of S. 1867, this does not apply to US citizens Understanding the Bill itself and the Debate that is taking shape – [...]

Libya and the War Powers Act

(According to the New York Times we would lose credibility if we pulled out of the illegal war of aggression in Libya. A funny kind of twisted logic for a “liberal” paper if you ask me. But notice the real issue is finding a way to justify our involvement. This is the point of the [...]

CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Friday, May 20, 2011: Celebrate Illegal Murder of OBL

by Scott Creighton In two previous postings I put up photos of thousands of people protesting the austerity measures being forced on them in Spain and Greece by their own corrupt politicians and their CIA linked financial “advisers” So, as a bit of contrast, while the rest of the country here at home suffers the [...]

Tricks, Compromises, and Betrayals; The Obama™ Campaign Begins

by Scott Creighton The mechanics of the PR tricks used by the marketing agencies contracted to run this country are becoming even more sophomoric and painfully obvious. Pathetic really. Hard to imagine people get paid to write this shit. A “news” story is all across the spectrum about a mic that was “left on” which [...]

Economic Hit-men and the Neoliberalization of America

by Scott Creighton In a continuation of the interview which I posted late last night, Rachel Maddow has on Naomi Klein to talk about the process of disaster capitalism being implemented in Wisconsin and Michigan and all through-out the United States. This is primarily what this website has been about since it’s creation nearly 4 years [...]

Obama Dances While Rome Burns

by Scott Creighton The Wisconsin assembly passed Gov. Walker’s draconian union-busting bill so now it’s on to the Wisconsin senate where the missing 14 Democratic senators factor heavily into the equation. Meanwhile, President Obama apparently found that pair of comfortable shoes and slipped them on so that he and his family could dance the night [...]

Home Sweet Wall Street

by Robert Sheer, Truthdig A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government’s time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the goal of homeownership. Instead of punishing the banks that sabotaged the American ideal of a nation of stakeholders by “securitizing” our homesteads into [...]

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 [...]

Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig … The moratorium on anti-war protests in 2004 was designed to help elect the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry. It was a foolish and humiliating concession. Kerry snapped to salute like a windup doll when he was nominated. He talked endlessly about victory in Iraq. He assured the country that [...]

Ron Paul Advocates Demolition of Social Security

by Scott Creighton G*ddamn, I hate Ron Paul. Let’s get this straight; Ron Paul is nothing more than a kinder/gentler face for the Chicago School neoliberalization program supported by the neocons on one side and the Clitonista/Obama New Dems on the other. He is yet another flavor of  the oligarchical corporatist tools, who fully expected his [...]

Journalism of Appeasement. Corruption, Smoke and Mirrors

(A must read) by David DeGraw, Global Research Here’s a brief summation of my recent reporting: If we continue to let our politicians and wealthy members of society live in comfort, free from the consequences of their actions, we are complicit in our own demise. Our country is so overrun with corruption, we cannot remain [...]

Neoliberal Bloomberg Regime In New York Running Economic “Experiments” on City’s Most Vulnerable Families

by Scott Creighton Michael Bloomberg is New York City’s billionaire Mayor and he’s a hard-core neoliberal. Just the other day an article was published by the Huffington Post which described Mayor Bloomberg’s 6 step plan to fix the economy. That article has since been removed from the Huffington Post, but I found it for you [...]