Obama’s China Junket: “We’re Opening Doors for Wall Street and Nothing More”

by Mike Whitney, Global Research
Barack Obama took Hu Jintao to task this morning, scolding the dejected-looking Chinese leader at a press conference held in Beijing. Obama delivered one ferocious jab after another, claiming that China’s dollar-peg has cost the US millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs while creating gigantic trade imbalances which have destabilized the global [...]

Todays Team DLC Obama™ Brand Update- Obama’s Public Spanking in China

by Scott Creighton
While the illustrious one is in China, groveling his way thru yet another meeting with a foreign head of state, (another one whose human rights record can’t stand the light of day, as it just so happens) news here back at home is not so good. Maybe if someone told President Obama that he should stand [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Times columnist David Brooks exposes “left” supporters of Obama health plan

by Joe Kishore, WSWS
Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, a fairly conscious representative of his class, is among the more perceptive commentators in the bourgeois media. Writing primarily for the benefit of the political and corporate elite, Brooks often attempts to cut through the fog of lies used by politicians to sell their reactionary [...]