US bankers cash in despite phony pay restraint

by Patrick Martin, WSWS
The executive pay regulations announced Thursday by the Obama administration’s “pay czar” and the Federal Reserve represent a cynical attempt to placate public outrage over Wall Street bonuses while allowing the financial speculators to continue awarding themselves multi-million-dollar compensation packages.

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 [...]

Arianna Huffington is a Lying Warmonger of the “Progressive” Kind

by Scott Creighton
I’ve said it before and I will say it again; Arianna Huffington is nothing more than an ex-republican, DLCish, corporatist shill in “progressive” disguise.
Watch as MSNBC (disclaimer: MSNBC is partly owned by GE… war profiteer extraordinaire) helps spin up lies and disinformation for the imperialist war effort of the Obama administration. It’s nothing [...]

China will not support crippling sanctions against Iran

by Scott Creighton
The fate of the Iranian people appears to be in the hands of China and Russia at this point.  My, how the worm turns.
As the United States, France, and Great Britain take the lead in calling for extreme sanctions against the nation of Iran and her people (the same kinds of sanctions that had [...]

Obama appointee previews the imminent preventive detention debate

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon
By all accounts, the White House is going to unveil its proposal for indefinite detention within the next four to eight weeks, and it has begun dispatching proponents of that scheme to lay the rhetorical groundwork.  In The Washington Post today, one of the proposal’s architects — Law Professor Robert Chesney, a [...]

MAHD Day 1 Sequim Dr. Hochfeld

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 [...]