President Obama Pitches CFR Plan: Looks to Bring the India Model of GM Genocide to Africa

by Scott Creighton (H/T Kenny’s sideshow) “The Clinton Foundation fighting global issues through business oriented solutions. The Clinton Foundation is the best world in the world.” propaganda video featuring Jack Black “We are never going to end hunger in Africa without private investment,” USAID “The structure of fascism is the union, marriage, merger or fusion [...]

Occupy the Education System: Students, Teachers and Parents Find New Spirit and Challenge the Attack on Public Schools

by Sarah Jaffe, Alternet “I work hard, but my grades don’t matter. But I have a voice and I will be heard!” Jordan is 13, and she’s speaking to a crowd of mostly adults, sitting on the granite steps of the New York City Department of Education at Tweed Hall. Or rather, she is speaking [...]

New York City to lay off teachers, close fire companies, cut social programs

“This frontal attack on public education is highlighted by the fact that Bloomberg will allocate an increase of $139 million to charter schools next year.” by Sandy English, WSWS New York City’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg last Friday announced $600 million in budget cuts for the city’s Fiscal Year 2012, which will begin on July [...]

Corporate Martial Law: Public Schools Auctioned Off to Highest Bidder

by Julianne Hing, AlterNet If you’ve ever wondered whether the solution to a cash-strapped low-performing urban school district’s financial and education woes is the wholesale privatization of the public school system, you’re about to get your answer. Detroit, which is caught up in a state that has turned on its public workers, is auctioning off [...]

Star Check: The Nation on the Edge of Forever

by Scott Creighton “Space: the final privatization. These are the voyages of the starship Commerce. Its endless mission: to exploit strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations for untapped sources of cheap labor and  untold opportunities their new markets provide, to boldly go where no man has gone before on the taxpayer’s [...]

Kenneth Clarke ready to bring in troops if strikes erupt over privatised prison

by Alan Travis, Guardian The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has confirmed that he is willing to call in the army should “serious trouble” erupt over his decision that the private security company, G4S, should run Birmingham prison – making it the first public sector jail to be privatised. “We have to be prepared should anything [...]

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

(More on one of the buried stories I covered in my article In the Name of Business: Buried Headlines of a Changing World ) from CBS News President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. [...]

“Waiting for Superman” Is Just Neoliberal Propaganda Marketing Pinochet’s Class Based School System to the American Left

by Scott Creighton There are billions upon billions of dollars to be made by the corporate elite and 1%ers who are currently waiting for superman to come along and help sell the privatization of every public school system in America.  The privatization of public schools has been a mainstay in the neoliberal economic reform platform since [...]

Race To The Top: Obama Follows in Pinochet’s Footsteps

by Scott Creighton Obama’s neoliberal “Race To The Top” program was nothing more than the federal government’s attempt to blackmail states into undermining their public education system for the benefit of the privitization of schools. Essentially it was the next step in the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” program which set up the standardized tests [...]

Obama Administration Declines to Declare Water as a Fundamental Human Right

by Scott Creighton The U.N. General Assembly forced a vote on a Bolivian resolution declaring that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. The count was 122 nations FOR the resolution, 0 AGAINST, with 41 ABSTAINING.  Guess which way the neoliberal Obama delegation went? “It was the United States and Canada, the [...]

Arianna Huffington Praises Obama The Union Busting “Liberal”

by Scott Creighton So while “The Greatest Man of Our Generation” is looking to break-up the teacher’s union, Arianna Huffington is showing “progressives” how they need to cheer him in his “bipartisan” effort. She’s right; these days, union-busting and the privatization of every public sector dollar is a bipartisan effort. It’s called the Washington Consensus. [...]

House Dems Pressured To Drop Funding For Schools, Students To Pay For Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan

(The Clinton Party (“New Dems”) taking money from the school systems and sending it to the partying war contractors of Afghanistan and the new slave owners setting up shop in Haiti (with Slick Willy))… by Andrew Taylor, AP After a take-it-or-leave-it vote by the Senate, House Democrats face little choice but to drop billions in [...]

A Lie Exposed

by Jerry White, WSWS Four months after the passage of Obama’s health care legislation—hailed by most of the media and the entire liberal establishment as the most progressive social reform since the 1960s—the reactionary implications of the measure are emerging ever more clearly. The centerpiece of the plan, the White House claimed, was the extension [...]

Neoliberal News of the Day: July 15th, 2010

Just a few little neoliberal updates today… 1. Obama’s OMB Pick Oversaw Citigroup Unit That Shorted Housing Market – “President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the White House budget office oversaw a Citigroup unit that profited off the housing collapse and financial crisis by investing in a hedge fund king who correctly “predicted” the eventual [...]

Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

by Chris Hedges, TruthDig A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked [...]