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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Obama™ Backing Away from “Co-Ops” Trial Balloon

by Scott Creighton
This weekend the Obama administration came out on several fronts floating the idea that they were giving up on the Public Option.  The reaction from the left wasn’t good; in fact, it was vicious.  So this morning Obama™ let their trial balloon drop like a brick and are now trying desperately to backtrack [...]

Fake Doctors for Obamacare! The Roxana Mayer Story

by Scott Creighton
FAKE DOCTORS FOR OBAMACARE!!!! (studies show that 10 out of every 10 Obama event organizers who pretend to be a doctor to generate credibility, SUPPORT the Obama healthcare plan.)
You may or may not have heard about this as of yet (I doubt it will get much airtime on the corporate media from either [...]

Ahhh, the old “Estimated Cost Increase Reduction” Trick

by Scott Creighton
According to a recent article by Greg Palast, Big Pharma (by way of Billy Tauzin) met in secret with our president and promised to reduce their projected cost increases over the next 10 years “UP TO” a whopping 2%.  So in fact, they aren’t even guaranteeing the $80 billion dollar savings on the [...]

If You Don’t Like Team DLC Obama™ Brand’s Neoliberal, Corporatist Policies… You’re a Racist

by Scott Creighton
What we are watching now in the healthcare debate is just deplorable, bottom of the barrel, desperation muck-raking politics of the absolute worst kind.  And I am talking about what is coming from the White House and their “progressive” minions.  It is the EXACT same thing as when someone who is critical of [...]

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 the appeal [...]

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 summed up [...]